约伯记 33
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
33 “约伯啊，请听我言，
请留心听我每一句话。
2 我要开口发言，
我话已在舌尖。
3 我的话发自正直的心，
我的口如实陈明道理。
4 上帝的灵创造了我，
全能者的气赋予我生命。
5 如果你能，就反驳我，
站出来与我辩论。
6 在上帝面前，我与你无异，
也是泥土造的。
7 所以你不用惧怕我，
我不会对你施加压力。
8 “你的话已进到我耳中，
我听见你说，
9 ‘我纯全无过，
我清白无罪，
10 上帝却挑我的错，
与我为敌；
11 祂给我戴上脚镣，
鉴察我的一举一动。’
12 “我来答复你，你的话没有道理，
因为上帝比世人大。
13 你为何向祂抱怨，
说祂不理会世人的话？
14 上帝一再用各种方式说话，
然而世人却不明白。
15 人躺在床上沉睡时，
在梦境和夜间的异象中，
16 上帝开启他们的耳朵，
用警告惊吓他们，
17 使他们离开罪恶，
不再骄傲，
18 以免他们的灵魂坠入深坑，
他们的性命被刀剑夺去。
19 “人因受罚而卧病在床，
骨头疼痛不止，
20 以致毫无食欲，
对佳肴心生厌恶。
21 他日渐消瘦，
只剩下骨头。
22 他的灵魂临近深坑，
他的生命濒临死亡。
23 如果一千天使中有一位能做他的中保，
指示他当行的事，
24 上帝[a]就会怜悯他，说，‘别让他下坟墓，
我已得到他的赎金。’
25 那时，他的皮肉将嫩如孩童，
他将恢复青春的活力。
26 他向上帝祷告时必蒙悦纳，
他欢呼着朝见上帝，
再度被祂视为义人。
27 他会当众歌唱说，
‘我犯了罪，颠倒是非，
祂却没有按我的罪报应我。
28 祂救赎我的灵魂，使之免下深坑，
使我的生命得见光明。’
29 “看啊，这都是上帝的作为，
祂一次次地恩待世人，
30 从深坑救回人的灵魂，
使他沐浴生命之光。
31 约伯啊，留心听我说，
不要作声，我要发言。
32 你若有话，就答复我；
你只管说，我愿看到你的清白。
33 否则，请听我言；
不要作声，我要传授你智慧。”
Footnotes
- 33:24 “上帝”希伯来文是“他”，也可能指天使。
Job 33
Expanded Bible
33 “Now, Job, ·listen to [hear] my words.
Pay attention to ·everything I say [L all my words].
2 I open my mouth
and ·am ready to speak [L the tongue in my mouth speaks].
3 My words come from an ·honest [virtuous] heart,
and ·I am sincere in saying what I know [L what my lips know they speak with sincerity].
4 The Spirit of God ·created [has made] me,
and the breath of ·the Almighty [Shaddai] gave me life.
5 Answer me if you can;
get yourself ready and stand before me.
6 I am just like you before God;
I too ·am made [was formed] out of clay.
7 ·Don’t be afraid of me [L Dread of me should not scare you];
·I will not be hard on you [L My pressure will not be too heavy on you].
8 “But ·I heard what you have said [L you have spoken in my ear];
I heard ·every word [L the sound of your words].
9 You said, ‘I am pure and without ·sin [transgression];
I am ·innocent [L clean] and free from guilt.
10 But God has found ·fault [reason to be upset] with me;
he ·considers me [thinks I am] his enemy.
11 He ·locks [places] my feet in ·chains [shackles]
and ·closely watches everywhere I go [L guards all my paths].’
12 “But I tell you, you are not ·right in saying this [L correct],
I will answer you, for God is greater than ·we are [L any human being].
13 Why do you ·accuse [contend with] God
·of not answering anyone [or for no one can answer all his words]?
14 God does speak—sometimes ·one way and sometimes another [or once and sometimes twice]—
even though people may not ·understand [perceive] it.
15 He speaks in a dream or a vision of the night
when people are in a deep sleep,
lying on their beds in slumber.
16 He ·speaks in [L opens] their ears
and frightens them with warnings
17 to turn them away from doing wrong
and to keep them from being proud.
18 God does this to ·save people [L keep them] from ·death [L the Pit; C a reference to the grave and the underworld],
to keep them from ·dying [L the water channel; C another reference to the grave and the underworld].
19 People may be ·corrected [reprimanded; reproved] while in bed in great pain;
they may have continual pain in their very bones.
20 ·They may be in such pain that they even hate [L Their lives loathe] food,
even ·the very best meal [choice food].
21 ·Their body becomes so thin [L Their flesh wastes away so that] ·there is almost nothing left of it [L it cannot be seen],
and their bones that were hidden now stick out.
22 ·They are [L Their souls draw] near ·death [L the Pit; 33:18],
and their life ·is almost over [L comes near those who bring death].
23 “·But there may be [L If there is] an angel to speak for him,
one out of a thousand, ·who will tell him what to do [a mediator who declares a person virtuous].
24 The angel will ·beg for mercy [or be gracious to him] and say:
‘·Save [Redeem] him from ·death [L going down to the Pit; 33:18].
I have found a ·way to pay for his life [ransom].’
25 Then his body is made new like a ·child’s [youth’s].
It will return to the way it was when he was ·young [vigorous].
26 That person will pray to God, and God will ·listen to [L accept] him.
He will see God’s face and will shout with happiness.
And ·God will set things right for him again [or he will repeat to others that he has been vindicated].
27 Then he will ·say [L sing] to others,
‘I sinned and ·twisted what was right [perverted/sullied virtue],
but I did not receive the punishment I should have received.
28 God ·bought [redeemed] my life ·back from death [L from crossing over to the Pit; 33:18],
and ·I will continue to enjoy life [L my life will yet see the light].’
29 “God does all these things to a person
two or even three times
30 ·so he won’t die as punishment for his sins [L to bring back his life from the Pit; 33:18]
and so he may ·still enjoy life [L be illuminated with the light of life].
31 “Job, pay attention and listen to me;
be quiet, and I will speak.
32 If you have anything to say, answer me;
speak up, because I want to ·prove you right [vindicate you].
33 But if you have nothing to say, then listen to me;
be quiet, and I will teach you wisdom.”
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