约伯记 36
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
神的报应：赏善罚恶
36 以利户又接着说：
2 “你再等我片刻我就指示你，
因为我还有话要为 神说。
3 我要从远处引来我的意见，
把公义归给我的创造主。
4 我的话真的不是谎言，
有一位知识全备的与你同在。
5 神大有能力，并且不藐视人，
他的智慧大有能力。
6 他不容恶人生存，
却为困苦人主持公道。
7 他的眼目时常看顾义人，
他使他们与君王同坐宝座，
他们永远被高举。
8 他们若被锁炼捆住，
被苦难的绳索缠住，
9 他就把他们的作为和过犯都显示，
使他们知道他们骄傲自大。
10 他开启他们的耳朵可以领受教训，
吩咐他们离开罪孽而悔改。
11 他们若听从他、事奉他，
就必幸福地度尽他们的日子，
也必快乐地度过他们的岁月。
12 他们若不听从，就必死在刀下，
毫无知识地气绝身亡。
13 那些心里不敬虔的人积存怒气，
神捆绑他们，他们竟不呼求。
14 他必早年丧命，
丧命如庙妓一样。
15 神借着苦难救拔困苦人，
以他们所受的压迫开启他们的耳朵。
16 他也诱导你脱离患难的虎口，
到宽阔不狭窄之地，
到你摆满肥甘的席上。
17 你却满有恶人所当受的审判，
审断和刑罚把你抓住。
18 你要小心不可让忿怒激动你，以致侮慢 神，
也不要因赎价大而偏离正道。
19 你的呼求、或一切势力，
能使你不受患难吗？
20 你不可切慕黑夜来临，
就是众人在他们的住处被除灭的时候。
21 你要小心，不可转向罪孽，
因为你选择罪孽而不选择患难。
劝约伯荣耀 神
22 神靠自己的能力高高在上，
有谁像 神指教人呢？
23 谁把他所行的道路派给他？
谁能说：‘你所行的不义’呢？
24 你要记得称赞他所行的为大，
就是众人所歌颂的。
25 他所行的，万人都看见，
世人都从远处观看。
26 神为至大，我们不能了解，
他的年数，无法测度。
27 他吸收滴滴水点，
使水滴在云雾中化成雨，
28 云层倾下雨水，
沛然降在世人身上。
29 谁能明白云彩的展开，
和 神行宫的雷声呢？
30 他在自己的周围展开电光，
又用水遮盖海底；
31 他用这些审断万人，
又赐予丰盛的粮食；
32 他以电光遮盖双手，
然后吩咐电光去攻击目标，
33 他以雷声宣扬自己，
甚至牲畜也注意将有甚么临近。”
约伯记 36
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
36 以利户又说：
2 “再给我片刻，容我讲明，
我还有话替上帝说。
3 我要旁征博引，
证明我的创造主公义。
4 我的话绝非虚言，
知识全备者在你身旁。
5 “上帝有大能，但不藐视人，
祂无所不知。
6 祂不容恶人活命，
祂为穷苦人申冤。
7 祂时时看顾义人，
使他们与君王同坐宝座，
永远受尊崇。
8 他们若被锁链捆绑，
被苦难的绳索缠住，
9 祂就会指明他们的所作所为，
让他们知道自己狂妄的罪愆。
10 祂开启他们的耳朵，使之受教，
督促他们离开罪恶。
11 他们若听从、事奉祂，
就可一生幸福，安享天年。
12 否则，他们必死于刀下，
在无知中灭亡。
13 不信上帝的人心存愤怒，
被上帝捆绑也不求救。
14 他们盛年丧命，
与庙中的男妓一同夭亡。
15 上帝借苦难拯救受苦的人，
借患难开通他们的耳朵。
16 祂也要引领你脱离困境，
进入广阔自由之地，
使你享受满桌佳肴。
17 “但恶人应受的审判落在你身上，
你难逃审判和惩罚。
18 当心，不可因愤怒而嘲骂，
不可因赎金大就偏离正道。
19 难道你呼求、使出浑身力气，
就能脱离困境吗？
20 不要渴望黑夜来临——
就是众民被毁灭的时候。
21 当心，不可转向罪恶，
因你喜欢罪恶胜于苦难。
22 看啊，上帝的能力无以伦比。
谁能像祂那样赐人教诲？
23 谁能为祂指定道路？
谁能说祂行事不义？
24 人们都歌唱祂的作为，
你也要记得颂扬。
25 祂的作为，万民都已看见，
世人从远处目睹。
26 我们无法明白上帝的伟大，
祂的年岁无法数算。
27 祂吸取水滴，
使之在云雾中化为雨，
28 从云端沛然降下，
滋润人间。
29 谁能明白云层的铺展，
及祂幔幕发出的雷声？
30 祂在四围铺展闪电，
照亮大海的深处。
31 祂借此治理万民，
赐下丰富的食物。
32 祂手握闪电，
令它射向目标。
33 雷声显明祂的作为，
就连牲畜也能察觉。
Job 36
Holman Christian Standard Bible
36 Then Elihu continued, saying:
2 Be patient with me a little longer, and I will inform you,
for there is still more to be said on God’s behalf.
3 I will get my knowledge from a distant place
and ascribe justice to my Maker.
4 For my arguments are without flaw;[a]
one who has perfect knowledge is with you.
5 Yes, God is mighty, but He despises no one;
He understands all things.[b](A)
6 He does not keep the wicked alive,(B)
but He gives justice to the afflicted.
7 He does not remove His gaze from the righteous,
but He seats them forever with enthroned kings,
and they are exalted.
8 If people are bound with chains
and trapped by the cords of affliction,
9 God tells them what they have done
and how arrogantly they have transgressed.
10 He opens their ears(C) to correction
and insists they repent from iniquity.
11 If they serve Him obediently,
they will end their days in prosperity
and their years in happiness.(D)
12 But if they do not obey,
they will cross the river of death[c]
and die without knowledge.(E)
13 Those who have a godless heart harbor anger;
even when God binds them, they do not cry for help.
14 They die in their youth;
their life ends among male cult prostitutes.(F)
15 God rescues the afflicted by their affliction;
He instructs them by their torment.
16 Indeed, He lured you from the jaws[d] of distress
to a spacious and unconfined place.
Your table was spread with choice food.
17 Yet now you are obsessed with the judgment due the wicked;
judgment and justice have seized you.
18 Be careful that no one lures you with riches;[e]
do not let a large ransom[f] lead you astray.(G)
19 Can your wealth[g] or all your physical exertion
keep you from distress?(H)
20 Do not long for the night
when nations will disappear from their places.
21 Be careful that you do not turn to iniquity,
for that is why you have been tested by[h] affliction.
22 Look, God shows Himself exalted by His power.
Who is a teacher like Him?
23 Who has appointed His way for Him,
and who has declared, “You have done wrong”?(I)
24 Remember that you should praise His work,
which people have sung about.(J)
25 All mankind has seen it;
people have looked at it from a distance.(K)
26 Yes, God is exalted beyond our knowledge;(L)
the number of His years cannot be counted.(M)
27 For He makes waterdrops evaporate;[i]
they distill the rain into its[j] mist,(N)
28 which the clouds pour out
and shower abundantly on mankind.
29 Can anyone understand how the clouds spread out
or how the thunder roars from God’s pavilion?(O)
30 See how He spreads His lightning(P) around Him
and covers the depths of the sea.
31 For He judges the nations with these;
He gives food in abundance.(Q)
32 He covers His hands with lightning
and commands it to hit its mark.
33 The[k] thunder declares His presence;[l]
the cattle also, the approaching storm.
Footnotes
- Job 36:4 Lit my words are not false
- Job 36:5 Lit He is mighty in strength of heart
- Job 36:12 Or will perish by the sword
- Job 36:16 Lit from a mouth of narrowness
- Job 36:18 Or you into mockery
- Job 36:18 Or bribe
- Job 36:19 Or cry for help
- Job 36:21 Or for you have preferred this to
- Job 36:27 Lit He draws in waterdrops
- Job 36:27 Or His
- Job 36:33 Lit His, or Its
- Job 36:33 Lit thunder announces concerning Him or it
Job 36
King James Version
36 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
4 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
19 Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
23 Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
31 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
33 The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.
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