Job 21

1 Then Job answered:

1 约伯回答说：

2 “Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.

2 “你们仔细听我说， 便是给我的慰藉。

3 Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.

3 请容忍我把话说完， 之后任凭你们嘲笑。

4 Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

4 我岂是向人抱怨？ 我有理由不耐烦。

5 Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.

5 你们看到我会大吃一惊， 吓得用手掩口。

6 When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.

6 我一想到自己，就心惊胆战， 浑身发抖。

7 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

7 为何恶人活着，得享长寿， 势力强大？

8 Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.

8 他们的儿孙围绕膝前， 他们得见后代茁壮成长。

9 Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

9 他们家中平安无惧， 他们不被上帝杖打。

10 Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.

10 他们的公牛繁殖力强， 他们的母牛从不掉胎。

11 They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

11 他们让孩童像羊群一样走到户外， 尽情地欢跳。

12 singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.

12 他们伴着铃鼓和竖琴歌唱， 在笛声中欢喜不已。

13 They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

13 他们一生幸福， 安然下到阴间。

14 Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

14 他们对上帝说，‘离开我们， 我们不想学习你的道。

15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

15 全能者是谁，竟要我们事奉祂？ 向祂祷告有何益处？’

16 Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

16 看啊，他们的幸福不在他们手中； 因此，我决不苟同他们的谋划。

17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

17 “恶人的灯何曾熄灭？ 灾难何曾临到他们？ 上帝何曾发怒使他们受苦？

18 Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

18 他们何曾像风中的碎秸， 像被暴风卷去的糠秕？

19 It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

19 你们说上帝会把惩罚留给他们的儿女， 我认为不如报应在他们本人身上， 让他们亲自领教。

20 Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.

20 愿他们亲眼看见自己灭亡。 愿他们喝下全能者的烈怒。

21 For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?

21 因为他们的岁月一旦度尽， 又怎会关心身后的家人？

22 Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?

22 “上帝既审判身居高位者， 谁还能传授知识给祂？

23 One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.

23 有人至死仍充满活力， 尽享平靖安逸。

24 His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.

24 他营养充足， 骨骼健壮。

25 Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.

25 有人至死心中苦痛， 从未尝过幸福的滋味。

26 But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

26 二者都埋入尘土， 被蛆虫覆盖。

27 Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

27 我知道你们的想法， 并那些冤枉我的诡计。

28 For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’

28 你们问，‘权贵的房子如今何在？ 恶人住的帐篷今在何方？’

29 Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?

29 难道你们没有问过旅客， 不接受他们的说法？

30 Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.

30 就是恶人在灾难之日幸存， 在上帝发怒之日得以逃脱。

31 Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?

31 谁会当面斥责他们的恶行， 因其所作所为而报应他们？

32 He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.

32 他们被抬入坟墓后， 还有人看守墓地。

33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

33 他们在谷中的沃土安息， 送葬的人前拥后随，不计其数。

34 So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

34 你们的空谈怎能安慰我？ 你们的回答纯属荒谬。”