| 約伯傳 |
Job |
| 1厄里烏接着說： |
1Then Elihu continued and said: |
| 2你們有智慧的人，請聽我言；你們明白人，請側耳聽我。 |
2Hear, O wise men, my discourse, and you that have knowledge, hear me! |
| 3原來耳朵是為辨別言語，有如口腔是為辨嘗食物。 |
3For the ear tests words, as the taste does food. |
| 4讓我們來檢討一下誰為正義，讓我們看看何者為善。 |
4Let us discern for ourselves what is right; let us learn between us what is good. |
| 5約伯說過：「我是無罪的，但我的理，卻為天主奪去。 |
5For Job has said, "I am innocent, but God has taken what is my due. |
| 6我雖無罪無辜，卻成了說謊者；我雖未行不義，卻受了不可醫治的創傷。」 |
6Notwithstanding my right I am set at nought; in my wound the arrow rankles, sinless though I am." |
| 7那有一人像約伯，肆口漫罵如飲水？ |
7What man is like Job? He drinks in blasphemies like water, |
| 8他豈不是與作惡的人結夥，同壞人交結來往？ |
8Keeps company with evildoers and goes along with wicked men, |
| 9他豈不是說過：「盡心悅樂天主，為人能有什麼好處？」 |
9When he says, "It profits a man nought that he is pleasing to God." |
| 10為此，你們心地明白的人，請聽我說，天主決不行惡，全能者決無不義！ |
10Therefore, men of understanding, hearken to me: far be it from God to do wickedness; far from the Almighty to do wrong! |
| 11他必照人行為報答他，按他的品行對待他。 |
11Rather, he requites men for their conduct, and brings home to a man his way of life. |
| 12天主絕對不能作惡，全能者絕對不能顛倒是非。 |
12Surely, God cannot act wickedly, the Almighty cannot violate justice. |
| 13誰委派他掌管大地，誰任命他治理普世？ |
13Who gave him government over the earth, or who else set all the land in its place? |
| 14他若將自己的神魂收回，將氣息復歸於自己， |
14If he were to take back his spirit to himself, withdraw to himself his breath, |
| 15所有有血肉的人必都消滅，世人都要歸於塵土。 |
15All flesh would perish together, and man would return to the dust. |
| 16若你聰明，請聽這事，側耳傾聽我的話。 |
16Now, do you, O Job, hear this! Hearken to the words I speak! |
| 17憎恨正義的，豈能掌權？而你竟敢定那至公義者的罪？ |
17Can an enemy of justice indeed be in control, or will you condemn the supreme Just One, |
| 18他能稱君王為歹徒，能稱官吏為壞人。 |
18Who says to a king, "You are worthless!" and to nobles, "You are wicked!" |
| 19他對權貴不顧情面，亦不重富輕貧，因為都是他一手造成的。 |
19Who neither favors the person of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor? For they are all the work of his hands; |
| 20他們猝然在半夜死去，貴族能立即氣絕逝世；他剷除權貴者，無須人手。 |
20in a moment they die, even at midnight. He brings on nobles, and takes them away, removing the powerful without lifting a hand; |
| 21因為他的眼監視人的動作，觀察他的行徑。 |
21For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he beholds all his steps. |
| 22沒有黑暗，也沒有陰影，可將作惡的人掩蔽。 |
22There is no darkness so dense that evildoers can hide in it. |
| 23天主不必給人指定時間，為使人到他前去受審。 |
23Therefore he discerns their works; he turns at night and crushes them. |
| 24他粉碎權勢者，無須審察，即刻能派定別人代替他們。 |
24For he forewarns no man of his time to come before God in judgment. |
| 25他原知道他們的行為，一夜之間將他們推翻消滅。 |
25Without a trial he breaks the mighty, and sets others in their stead, |
| 26在眾目昭彰之下，鞭打他們有如罪犯。 |
26Because they turned away from him and heeded none of his ways, |
| 27因為他們遠離了他，不重視他一切的道， |
27But caused the cries of the poor to reach him, so that he heard the plea of the afflicted. |
| 28致使窮人的哀號上達於他，使他聽到了受苦者的哀求。 |
28 If he remains tranquil, who then can condemn? If he hides his face, who then can behold him? |
| 29他若安息，誰敢騷擾？他若掩面，誰敢窺視？他對國對人都予以監視， |
29When anyone says to God, "I was misguided; I will offend no more. |
| 30使凡欺壓人民的不得為王。 |
30Teach me wherein I have sinned; if I have done wrong, I will do so no more," |
| 31如果惡人向天主說：「我受了欺騙，以後不再作惡。 |
31Would you then say that God must punish, since you reject what he is doing? It is you who must choose, not I; speak, therefore, what you know. |
| 32我所看不透的，求你指教我；我若以前作了孽，不敢再做了。」 |
32Men of understanding will say to me, every wise man who hears my views: |
| 33他施行報應，豈應隨你的心意？或者你能拒絕不受嗎？決定的是你，而不是我！你若知道，儘管說罷！ |
33"Job speaks without intelligence, and his words are without sense." |
| 34但是心地聰明，具有智慧，且聽我說話的人，必要對我說： |
34Let Job be tried to the limit, since his answers are those of the impious; |
| 35「約伯所講的話毫無知識，他的話全不明智。」 |
35For he is adding rebellion to his sin by brushing off our arguments and addressing many words to God. |
| 36為此，約伯還要受徹底的究察，因為他的答覆好似出自惡人之口， |
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| 37因為他在罪上又加反叛，當着我們磨拳擦掌，講出許多相反天主的話。 |
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