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比勒达首次发言

书亚人比勒达回答说:

“这些话你要说到几时,

你口中的言语像狂风到几时呢?

 神怎会歪曲公平?

全能者怎会屈枉公义?

你的儿女若得罪了他,

他就因他们的过犯撇弃他们。

你若殷勤寻求 神,

向全能者恳求;

你若又洁净又正直,

他就必为你奋起,

复兴你公义的居所。

你起初虽然微小,

到后来必定非常兴旺。

离开 神毫无倚靠

请你查问前几代,

留意他们列祖所查究的。

我们只是昨天才有的,所以一无所知;

我们在世的日子不过是影儿。

10 难道他们不指教你,告诉你,

从心里发出言语来吗?

11 蒲草没有泥,怎能生长?

芦苇没有水,怎能长大呢?

12 尚青还没有割下来的时候,

就比百草先枯槁。

13 忘记 神的,他们的末路也是这样;

不敬虔的人,他的指望必成泡影。

14 他所自恃的,必被折断;

他所靠赖的,不过是蜘蛛网。

15 他倚靠自己的家,家却立不住,

他抓紧自己的家,家却存不久。

16 他在阳光之下,枝润叶青,

它的嫩枝长满园子,

17 它的根缠绕石堆,

扎入石地之中。

18 他若从本处被拔除,

那处就否认他,说:‘我没有见过你。’

19 看哪,这就是他人生的乐趣,

往后必有别的人从尘土中生出来。

 神不丢弃完全人

20 看哪, 神必不离弃完全人,

也不扶助行恶的人之手;

21 他还要以欢笑充满你的口,

以欢呼充满你的嘴。

22 恨你的都必以羞耻为衣,

恶人的帐棚必归于无有。”

Bildad

Then Bildad the Shuhite(A) replied:

“How long will you say such things?(B)
    Your words are a blustering wind.(C)
Does God pervert justice?(D)
    Does the Almighty pervert what is right?(E)
When your children sinned against him,
    he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.(F)
But if you will seek God earnestly
    and plead(G) with the Almighty,(H)
if you are pure and upright,
    even now he will rouse himself on your behalf(I)
    and restore you to your prosperous state.(J)
Your beginnings will seem humble,
    so prosperous(K) will your future be.(L)

“Ask the former generation(M)
    and find out what their ancestors learned,
for we were born only yesterday and know nothing,(N)
    and our days on earth are but a shadow.(O)
10 Will they not instruct(P) you and tell you?
    Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?(Q)
11 Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh?(R)
    Can reeds(S) thrive without water?
12 While still growing and uncut,
    they wither more quickly than grass.(T)
13 Such is the destiny(U) of all who forget God;(V)
    so perishes the hope of the godless.(W)
14 What they trust in is fragile[a];
    what they rely on is a spider’s web.(X)
15 They lean on the web,(Y) but it gives way;
    they cling to it, but it does not hold.(Z)
16 They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,
    spreading its shoots(AA) over the garden;(AB)
17 it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks
    and looks for a place among the stones.
18 But when it is torn from its spot,
    that place disowns(AC) it and says, ‘I never saw you.’(AD)
19 Surely its life withers(AE) away,
    and[b] from the soil other plants grow.(AF)

20 “Surely God does not reject one who is blameless(AG)
    or strengthen the hands of evildoers.(AH)
21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter(AI)
    and your lips with shouts of joy.(AJ)
22 Your enemies will be clothed in shame,(AK)
    and the tents(AL) of the wicked will be no more.”(AM)

Footnotes

  1. Job 8:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  2. Job 8:19 Or Surely all the joy it has / is that

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

18 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.