| 約伯傳 |
Job |
| 1特曼人厄里法次又發言說： |
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite spoke and said: |
| 2智者豈能以虛言作答？豈能以東風果腹？ |
2Should a wise man answer with airy opinions, or puff himself up with wind? |
| 3豈能以無益的廢話，無濟於事的言詞來辯護？ |
3Should he argue in speech which does not avail, and in words which are to no profit? |
| 4不但如此，而且你還廢除了敬畏天主之情，斷絕了在他面前的默禱。 |
4You in fact do away with piety, and you lessen devotion toward God, |
| 5其實，是你的罪惡教導你說話，叫你的口舌詭辯。 |
5Because your wickedness instructs your mouth, and you choose to speak like the crafty. |
| 6定你罪的，是你的口而不是我，是你的口唇作證控告你。 |
6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; you own lips refute you. |
| 7你豈是第一個出生的人？在山嶽未有之前，你豈已誕生？ |
7Are you indeed the first-born of mankind, or were you brought forth before the hills? |
| 8難道你聽見了天主的秘旨，把持着智慧？ |
8Are you privy to the counsels of God, and do you restrict wisdom to yourself? |
| 9有什麼事，只有你知，而我們不知；只有你明瞭，而我們不明瞭？ |
9What do you know that we do not know? What intelligence have you which we have not? |
| 10我們之中也有白頭老人，年紀比你父親還大。 |
10There are gray-haired old men among us more advanced in years than your father. |
| 11天主的安慰，和向你說的溫和的話，你以為還太少嗎？ |
11Are the consolations of God not enough for you, and speech that deals gently with you? |
| 12你為何讓你的感情控制着你？你的眼為何冒火， |
12Why do your notions carry you away, and why do your eyes blink, |
| 13竟向天主發怒，開口說出這樣的話？ |
13So that you turn your anger against God and let such words escape your mouth! |
| 14人算什麼而敢自稱潔淨，婦女所生的敢自稱正直？ |
14What is a man that he should be blameless, one born of woman that he should be righteous? |
| 15他連自己的聖者，還不信賴；在他眼中，連蒼天也不純潔， |
15If in his holy ones God places no confidence, and if the heavens are not clean in his sight, |
| 16何況一個墮落可憎，飲惡如水的人！ |
16How much less so is the abominable, the corrupt: man, who drinks in iniquity like water! |
| 17我要告訴你，你且聽我說；我要說明我的經驗， |
17I will show you, if you listen to me; what I have seen I will tell-- |
| 18即賢哲所傳授，和祖先未曾隱瞞的事：─ |
18What wise men relate and have not contradicted since the days of their fathers, |
| 19這地方原只賜給了他們，尚無一個外方人從他們中間經過。─ |
19To whom alone the land was given, when no foreigner moved among them. |
| 20惡人一生飽受苦惱，壽數已給暴君限定； |
20The wicked man is in torment all his days, and limited years are in store for the tyrant; |
| 21恐怖之聲常在他耳中，平靜時匪徒也來侵擾。 |
21The sound of terrors is in his ears; when all is prosperous, the spoiler comes upon him. |
| 22他不相信還能脫離黑暗，只等待遭受刀劍之害， |
22He despairs of escaping the darkness, and looks ever for the sword; |
| 23注定作為鷹鳥的食物，自知大難業已臨頭。 |
23A wanderer, food for the vultures, he knows that his destruction is imminent. |
| 24黑暗的日子使他恐怖，困苦艱難跟隨着他，好像準備廝殺的君王。 |
24By day the darkness fills him with dread; distress and anguish overpower him. |
| 25因為他曾伸手反抗過天主，向全能者傲慢逞強過； |
25Because he has stretched out his hand against God and bade defiance to the Almighty, |
| 26以伸直的頸項，以堅厚的盾背攻擊過天主。 |
26One shall rush sternly upon him with the stout bosses of his shield, like a king prepared for the charge. |
| 27他的臉蓋滿了脂油，他的腰積滿了肥肉。 |
27Because he has blinded himself with his crassness, padding his loins with fat, |
| 28他住在荒涼的城內，住在無人居留，行將化為廢墟的屋中。 |
28He shall dwell in ruinous cities, in houses that are deserted, That are crumbling into clay |
| 29他不能富有，所有的財富也不能久存，也決不能向地下生根。 |
29with no shadow to lengthen over the ground. He shall not be rich, and his possessions shall not endure; |
| 30他脫離不了黑暗，火燄要灼乾他的嫩芽，暴風要吹去他的花朵。 |
30for vain shall be his bartering. |
| 31別依恃枝椏已長大，應知這都是空虛； |
31A flame shall wither him up in his early growth, and with the wind his blossoms shall disappear. |
| 32未到時日，已經凋謝，枝葉再不發綠。 |
32His stalk shall wither before its time, and his branches shall be green no more. |
| 33有如葡萄未熟即被打下，橄欖開花即被搖落， |
33He shall be like a vine that sheds its grapes unripened, and like an olive tree casting off its bloom. |
| 34因為惡人的家室必要絕嗣，火要燒盡受賄者的帳幕。 |
34For the breed of the impious shall be sterile, and fire shall consume the tents of extortioners. |
| 35他們所懷的是邪惡，所生的是罪孽；心胸懷念的，無非是欺詐。 |
35 They conceive malice and bring forth emptiness; they give birth to failure. |
