约伯记 41
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
神造鳄鱼，显出他伟大
41 “你能用鱼钩钓上鳄鱼吗？
能用绳子把牠的舌头压下吗？
2 能把草绳穿进牠的鼻子吗？
能用刺钩穿透牠的腮骨吗？
3 牠会向你再三恳求，
对你说温柔的话吗？
4 牠肯与你立约，
好使你永远奴役牠吗？
5 你怎能玩弄牠，像玩弄雀鸟一样呢？
怎能把牠拴住，给你的幼女取乐呢？
6 结伙的渔夫怎能拿牠当货物买卖呢？
怎能把牠分给商人呢？
7 你能用倒钩扎满牠的皮吗？
能用鱼叉扎满牠的头吗？
8 你把手按在牠身上，
想到与牠的战斗，你就不再是这样作了。（本章第1~8节在《马索拉文本》为40:25~32）
9 人希望捉住牠是徒然的，
人一见牠，就心惊胆战。（本节在《马索拉文本》为41:1）
10 人惹牠的时候，牠不是很凶猛吗？
这样，有谁人在我面前能站立得住呢？
11 谁先给了我，以致我要偿还呢？
天下万物，都是我的。
12 论到鳄鱼的四肢和牠的力气，
以及美好的体态，我不能缄默不言。
13 谁能揭开牠的外皮呢？
谁能进入牠上下两颚之间呢？
14 谁能打开牠的口呢？
牠的牙齿令人战栗。
15 牠的背有一行一行的鳞甲，
紧紧合闭着，像印得很紧的印章一样。
16 这鳞甲一一相连接，
连气也透不入其间，
17 鳞甲一一互相连合，
互相紧贴，不能分离。
18 牠打的喷嚏闪出光来，
牠的眼睛如同清晨的阳光；
19 有火从牠的口中发出，
火星四射；
20 有烟从牠的鼻孔里冒出来，
像从沸腾的锅中和烧着的芦苇里冒出来一样；
21 牠的气可以点着煤炭，
有火焰从牠的口里喷出来，
22 牠的颈项上存着能力，
惊恐在牠面前跳跃。
23 牠下垂的肌肉紧贴在一起，
牢牢地贴在身上，不能摇动。
24 牠的心坚实如石头，
如下磨石那样坚实。
25 牠一起来，勇士都惊慌，
因惊惶过度举止失措。
26 追上牠的刀剑都没用，
矛枪、标枪、短枪也是这样。
27 牠把铁当作干草，
把铜当作朽木。
28 弓箭不能使牠逃跑，
甩石机弦在牠看来不过是碎秸。
29 棍棒被牠当作碎?，
短枪飕飕之声牠也讥笑。
30 牠的腹下像锐利的瓦片，
牠在泥上碾过如同有利钉的耙犁田一样。
31 牠使深渊沸腾，
牠搅动海洋如在鼎中调制膏油。
32 牠使自己行过的路发出白光，
令人把深渊当作白发老人。
33 在世上没有一样像牠的，
牠是无所惧怕的动物；
34 所有高大的动物，牠都藐视，
牠在一切狂傲的野兽之上作王。”
Job 41
The Message
I Run This Universe
41 1-11 “Or can you pull in the sea beast, Leviathan, with a fly rod
and stuff him in your creel?
Can you lasso him with a rope,
or snag him with an anchor?
Will he beg you over and over for mercy,
or flatter you with flowery speech?
Will he apply for a job with you
to run errands and serve you the rest of your life?
Will you play with him as if he were a pet goldfish?
Will you make him the mascot of the neighborhood children?
Will you put him on display in the market
and have shoppers haggle over the price?
Could you shoot him full of arrows like a pin cushion,
or drive harpoons into his huge head?
If you so much as lay a hand on him,
you won’t live to tell the story.
What hope would you have with such a creature?
Why, one look at him would do you in!
If you can’t hold your own against his glowering visage,
how, then, do you expect to stand up to me?
Who could confront me and get by with it?
I’m in charge of all this—I run this universe!
12-17 “But I’ve more to say about Leviathan, the sea beast,
his enormous bulk, his beautiful shape.
Who would even dream of piercing that tough skin
or putting those jaws into bit and bridle?
And who would dare knock at the door of his mouth
filled with row upon row of fierce teeth?
His pride is invincible;
nothing can make a dent in that pride.
Nothing can get through that proud skin—
impervious to weapons and weather,
The thickest and toughest of hides,
impenetrable!
18-34 “He snorts and the world lights up with fire,
he blinks and the dawn breaks.
Comets pour out of his mouth,
fireworks arc and branch.
Smoke erupts from his nostrils
like steam from a boiling pot.
He blows and fires blaze;
flames of fire stream from his mouth.
All muscle he is—sheer and seamless muscle.
To meet him is to dance with death.
Sinewy and lithe,
there’s not a soft spot in his entire body—
As tough inside as out,
rock-hard, invulnerable.
Even angels run for cover when he surfaces,
cowering before his tail-thrashing turbulence.
Javelins bounce harmlessly off his hide,
harpoons ricochet wildly.
Iron bars are so much straw to him,
bronze weapons beneath notice.
Arrows don’t even make him blink;
bullets make no more impression than raindrops.
A battle ax is nothing but a splinter of kindling;
he treats a brandished harpoon as a joke.
His belly is armor-plated, inexorable—
unstoppable as a barge.
He roils deep ocean the way you’d boil water,
he whips the sea like you’d whip an egg into batter.
With a luminous trail stretching out behind him,
you might think Ocean had grown a gray beard!
There’s nothing on this earth quite like him,
not an ounce of fear in that creature!
He surveys all the high and mighty—
king of the ocean, king of the deep!”
约伯记 41
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
41 “你岂能用鱼钩钓鳄鱼，
用绳索绑住它的舌头？
2 你岂能用绳子穿它的鼻子，
用钩子穿它的腮骨？
3 它岂会向你连连求饶，
对你说柔和的话？
4 它岂肯与你立约，
一生做你的奴隶？
5 你岂能拿它当小鸟玩耍，
或拴起来给幼女取乐？
6 渔夫们岂能把它当货物出售，
卖给商人？
7 你岂能在它皮上戳满长矛，
头上插满鱼叉？
8 你动手碰碰它，
就知道有何恶战，绝不会再碰。
9 企图捕捉它的都会失望，
人看到它就会心惊胆战。
10 再凶猛的人也不敢惹它。
这样，谁能在我面前站立得住？
11 谁给过我什么，要我偿还？
天下万物都是我的。
12 “论到它的四肢、大力和姣美的身体，
我不能缄默不言。
13 谁能剥去它的外皮？
谁能给它戴上辔头？
14 谁能打开它的口？
它的牙齿令人恐惧。
15 它的脊背覆着行行鳞甲，
牢牢地密封在一起，
16 紧密无间，
连气也透不进去。
17 鳞甲彼此相连相扣，
无法分开。
18 它打喷嚏时，水光四射；
它的眼睛发出晨光；
19 口中喷出火炬，
迸出火星；
20 鼻孔冒烟，
如沸腾的锅和燃烧的芦苇；
21 呼气可点燃煤炭，
口中喷出火焰；
22 颈项强而有力，
恐惧在它前面开路；
23 身上的皱褶紧密相连，
牢牢地密封在一起；
24 心坚如石，
硬如磨石。
25 它一站起来，勇士都害怕，
见它冲来，他们慌忙退缩。
26 刀剑挡不住它，
长矛、标枪、尖戟也无能为力。
27 它视铁如干草，
视铜如朽木。
28 利箭吓不跑它，
弹石在它看来只是碎秸；
29 棍棒无异于秸秆，
它嗤笑投来的标枪。
30 它腹部有锋利的瓦片，
在淤泥上留下道道耙痕。
31 它使深渊如锅翻腾，
大海如油锅滚动。
32 它游过后留下一道波光，
使深渊仿佛披上银发。
33 地上没有动物能与它相比，
像它那样无所畏惧。
34 它藐视群雄，
在高傲的百兽中称王。”
Job 41
Revised Standard Version
41 [a] “Can you draw out Levi′athan[b] with a fishhook,
or press down his tongue with a cord?
2 Can you put a rope in his nose,
or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 Will he make many supplications to you?
Will he speak to you soft words?
4 Will he make a covenant with you
to take him for your servant for ever?
5 Will you play with him as with a bird,
or will you put him on leash for your maidens?
6 Will traders bargain over him?
Will they divide him up among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his skin with harpoons,
or his head with fishing spears?
8 Lay hands on him;
think of the battle; you will not do it again!
9 [c] Behold, the hope of a man is disappointed;
he is laid low even at the sight of him.
10 No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up.
Who then is he that can stand before me?
11 Who has given to me,[d] that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
12 “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.
13 Who can strip off his outer garment?
Who can penetrate his double coat of mail?[e]
14 Who can open the doors of his face?
Round about his teeth is terror.
15 His back[f] is made of rows of shields,
shut up closely as with a seal.
16 One is so near to another
that no air can come between them.
17 They are joined one to another;
they clasp each other and cannot be separated.
18 His sneezings flash forth light,
and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.
19 Out of his mouth go flaming torches;
sparks of fire leap forth.
20 Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke,
as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
21 His breath kindles coals,
and a flame comes forth from his mouth.
22 In his neck abides strength,
and terror dances before him.
23 The folds of his flesh cleave together,
firmly cast upon him and immovable.
24 His heart is hard as a stone,
hard as the nether millstone.
25 When he raises himself up the mighty[g] are afraid;
at the crashing they are beside themselves.
26 Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail;
nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.
27 He counts iron as straw,
and bronze as rotten wood.
28 The arrow cannot make him flee;
for him slingstones are turned to stubble.
29 Clubs are counted as stubble;
he laughs at the rattle of javelins.
30 His underparts are like sharp potsherds;
he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.
31 He makes the deep boil like a pot;
he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 Behind him he leaves a shining wake;
one would think the deep to be hoary.
33 Upon earth there is not his like,
a creature without fear.
34 He beholds everything that is high;
he is king over all the sons of pride.”
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