Wisdom:Chapter 17

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Wisdom:Chapter 17

智慧篇	Wisdom
¹上主，你的裁判的確高深難明，因此，不願受教的靈魂走入了迷途。	¹For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred.
²不法的人自以為能壓服聖民，反而被黑暗所束縛，為長夜所桎梏，囚禁在斗室中，被棄於永遠照顧之外。	²For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.
³他們原想在人不留意的黑幕下，可以掩藏隱密的罪惡，自己反為黑暗所侵襲，大起恐慌為鬼怪所驚擾，	³And while they thought to lie hid in their obscure sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfulness, being horribly afraid and troubled with exceeding great astonishment.
⁴以致連掩護他們的內室，也不能保護他們不受驚惶，使人恐怖的聲音環繞在他們四周，哭喪着臉的憂戚怪物，出現在他們面前。	⁴For neither did the den that held them, keep them from fear: for noises coming down troubled them, and sad visions appearing to them, affrighted them.
⁵火沒有一點能力供給他們光亮，星辰的光輝，也無法照明這可怕的黑夜，	⁵And no power of fire could give them light, neither could the bright flames of the stars enlighten that horrible night.
⁶只有忽然自動燃起的極為可怕的火炬，顯示給他們，嚇得他們不知所措；在幻像不見之後，他們幻想之所見，比所見的實物更為可怕。	⁶But there appeared to them a sudden fire, very dreadful: and being struck with the fear of that face, which was not seen, they thought the things which they saw to be worse:
⁷他們的邪術盡失效力，他們誇耀的學識，全蒙恥受辱：	⁷And the delusions of their magic art were put down, and their boasting of wisdom was reproachfully rebuked.
⁸他們曾應許，為患精神病者驅除恐懼與慌亂，自己卻患了可笑的膽怯病；	⁸For they who promised to drive away fears and troubles from a sick soul, were sick themselves of a fear worthy to be laughed at.
⁹即使沒有可怕的事來恐嚇，連走獸經過，或毒蛇嗤嗤一聲，他們也大為驚慌，嚇得魂不附體，以致連這無可逃避的空氣也不願再看。	⁹For though no terrible thing disturbed them: yet being scared with the passing by of beasts, and hissing of serpents, they died for fear: and denying that they saw the air, which could by no means be avoided.
¹⁰邪惡的心本來就膽怯，自證自己有罪，受着天良的催迫，時常向壞處着想。	¹⁰For whereas wickedness is fearful, it beareth witness of its condemnation: for a troubled conscience always forecasteth grievous things.
¹¹恐懼不是別的，只是將理性的助力，棄而不用；	¹¹For fear is nothing else but a yielding up of the succours from thought.
¹²人對內心的依賴越薄弱，越難明瞭遇難的原因。	¹²And while there is less expectation from within, the greater doth it count the ignorance of that cause which bringeth the torment.
¹³在那來自毫無生力的陰府深處，使人無法工作的黑夜裏，仍照樣去睡覺的人，	¹³But they that during that night, in which nothing could be done, and which came upon them from the lowest and deepest hell, slept the same sleep.
¹⁴有的因魑魅的怪狀而驚惶，有的因心志絕望而沮喪，因為，突然而意外的驚懼，忽臨到他們身上。	¹⁴Were sometimes molested with the fear of monsters, sometimes fainted away, their soul failing them: for a sudden and unlooked for fear was come upon them.
¹⁵因此，不拘誰倒在那裏，就在那裏被囚，幽禁在沒有鐵閂的囹圄中；	¹⁵Moreover if any of them had fallen down, he was kept shut up in prison without irons.
¹⁶不論他是農夫，或是牧人，或是在偏僻鄉野操作的工人，都得驟然忍受這不可逃避的厄運，因為人人都被一條黑暗的鎖鏈束縛住了；	¹⁶For if any one were a husbandman, or a shepherd, or a labourer in the field, and was suddenly overtaken, he endured a necessity from which he could not fly.
¹⁷不論是呼嘯的風聲，或是密枝間鳥雀的吱喳叫聲，或是溪水的急流聲，	¹⁷For they were all bound together with one chain of darkness. Whether it were a whistling wind, or the melodious voice of birds, among the spreading branches of trees, or a fall of water running down with violence,
¹⁸或是岩石崩裂的強烈響聲，或是走獸隱約的跳躍聲，或是猛獸的吼叫聲，或是山谷間的響徹回聲，都能使他們膽戰心驚。	¹⁸Or the mighty noise of stones tumbling down, or the running that could not be seen of beasts playing together, or the roaring voice of wild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the highest mountains: these things made them to swoon for fear.
¹⁹其時，整個世界正為輝煌的光明所照耀，進行工作毫無阻礙；	¹⁹For the whole world was enlightened with a clear light, and none were hindered in their labours.
²⁰沉重的黑暗，只籠罩着他們，這是未來要接收他們的黑暗的預像；其實，他們為他們自己，比黑暗還更為沈重。	²⁰But over them only was spread a heavy night, an image of that darkness which was to come upon them. But they were to themselves more grievous than the darkness.

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