Job 27
Expanded Bible
27 And Job continued ·speaking [L his discourse]:
2 “·As surely as God lives [By the living God], who has ·taken away [turned aside] my rights,
·the Almighty [Shaddai], who has made me ·unhappy [bitter],
3 as long as ·I am alive [my breath is in me]
and God’s ·breath of life [L spirit; breath; Gen. 2:7; Eccl. 12:7] is in my nose,
4 my lips will not speak ·evil [or falsehood],
and my tongue will not ·tell [L mutter] ·a lie [deceit].
5 ·I will never [Far be it from me to] ·agree [concede] you are right;
until I ·die [expire], I will never ·stop saying I am innocent [L turn aside my innocence].
6 I will ·insist that I am right [L embrace my righteousness]; I will not ·back down [weaken].
·My conscience will never bother me [L My heart will not reproach my days].
7 “Let my enemies be like evil people,
·my foes [those who rise up against me] like ·those who are wrong [the guilty].
8 What hope do the wicked have when they ·die [L are cut off],
when God ·takes their life away [requires their life]?
9 God will not listen to their cries
when trouble comes to them.
10 ·They will not [Will they…?] find joy in ·the Almighty [Shaddai],
·even though [or will…?] they call out to God all the time.
11 “I will ·teach [instruct] you about the ·power [L hand] of God
and will not ·hide [conceal] ·the ways of [L that which is with] ·the Almighty [Shaddai].
12 You have all seen this yourselves.
·So why are we having all this talk that means nothing [L Why have you become so meaningless/vaporous/vain]?
13 “Here is ·what God has planned for evil people [L the lot of evil people with God],
and ·that the Almighty will give to cruel people [L the inheritance that the cruel receive from the Almighty/Shaddai]:
14 They may have many children, but the sword will kill them.
Their ·children [L offspring] will never have enough ·to eat [L bread; food].
15 Then those who are left will die of disease and be buried,
and the widows will not even cry for them.
16 ·The wicked [L They] may heap up silver like ·piles of dirt [dust]
and ·have so many clothes they are like piles of clay [pile up clothes like mounds of earth/clay].
17 But ·good people [the righteous] will wear ·what evil people have gathered [L them],
and the innocent will ·divide up [distribute among themselves] their silver.
18 ·The houses the wicked build are [L They will build their houses] like a ·spider’s web [or moth’s cocoon],
like a ·hut [booth; shelter] that a guard builds.
19 ·The wicked are rich when they go to bed [L They may lie down wealthy],
but ·they are rich for the last time [L not again];
when they open their eyes, everything is gone.
20 ·Fears [Terrors] ·come over [overtake] them like ·a flood [waters],
and a storm snatches them away in the night.
21 The east wind will ·carry them away [L lift them up], and then they are gone,
because it sweeps them out of their place.
22 ·The wind [or God; L He; It] will hit them without mercy
as they ·try to run away [flee] from ·its power [or his power/hand].
23 It will be as if ·the wind [or God; L he; it] is clapping ·its [or his] hands;
·it [or he] will ·whistle [or hiss] at them as they run from their place [C clapping and hissing are gestures of contempt].
约伯记 27
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
約伯力言自己行義不渝
27 約伯繼續他的講論，說：
2 “永活的 神奪去我的公理，
全能者使我心中痛苦。
3 只要我的生命還在我裡面，
神賜我的氣息還在我鼻孔裡，
4 我的嘴唇決不說不義之言，
我的舌頭也不講詭詐之語。
5 我絕對不以你們為是，
我到死也不放棄我的純全；
6 我堅守我的義決不放鬆，
我一生的日子我的心必不責備我。
7 願我的敵人如惡人一般，
願那起來攻擊我的像不義的人一樣。
不敬虔的人沒有指望
8 不敬虔的人被剪除，
神奪去他性命的時候還有甚麼指望呢？
9 患難臨到他身上的時候，
神會垂聽他的哀求嗎？
10 他以全能者為樂，
時時求告 神嗎？
11 我藉 神的能力教導你們，
我不向你們隱瞞全能者的事。
12 你們都親自見過，
你們為甚麼成了這麼虛妄呢？
13 這是惡人從 神所得的分，
強暴的人從全能者所得的業。
14 即使他的兒女增多，還是被刀劍所殺，
他的子孫也必永不得飽食；
15 他的遺族在死人中埋葬，
他的寡婦也都不哀哭。
16 他雖然堆積銀子如塵沙，
預備衣服如泥土，
17 他儘管預備，義人卻要穿上；
他的銀子，無辜的人也要瓜分。
18 他建造房屋如蜘蛛結網，
又如守望者所搭的棚。
19 他雖然躺下的時候富有，卻不再這樣；
他一張開雙眼，財富就不在了。
20 驚恐必如眾水追上他，
暴風在夜間把他颳去。
21 東風把他吹起，他就消逝；
又把他捲起，離開原來的地方。
22 神射擊他，毫不留情，
他甚願快快逃脫 神的手。
23 有人向他拍掌，
發噝聲趕他離開原來的地方。”
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