Job 38

1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

1 那时，耶和华从旋风中对约伯说：

2 “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

2 “是谁用无知的话蒙蔽我的旨意？

3 Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

3 你要像勇士一样束腰备战， 我来提问，你来回答。

4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

4 “我立大地根基的时候，你在哪里？ 你若那么聪明，请告诉我。

5 Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it?

5 你可知道谁为大地定的尺寸？ 谁用准绳把它丈量？

6 On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

6 是什么支撑大地的根基？ 谁为它安放的基石？

7 while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

7 当时晨星齐声歌唱， 众天使都发出欢呼。

8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

8 “大海从母胎奔腾而出时， 谁为它划定界限？

9 when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

9 是我为大海披上云彩， 为它裹上厚厚的幽暗。

10 when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

10 是我为它划定界限， 并安上门和闩，

11 and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

11 说，‘你到此为止，不可越界； 你狂傲的波涛要停在这里。’

12 In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

12 “你生平可曾向晨曦发号施令， 为黎明的曙光指定岗位，

13 that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

13 使阳光普照大地， 抖出藏匿的恶人？

14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

14 日光使大地改观，如泥上盖印， 万物如衣服般显出颜色。

15 Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

15 恶人得不到光明， 强横的臂膀必折断。

16 Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

16 你可曾到过大海的源头， 走过深渊的底部？

17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

17 死亡之门可曾向你显露？ 你可曾见过幽冥之门？

18 Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

18 你知道大地有多广阔吗？ 你若全知道，就告诉我吧。

19 Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,

19 “哪条路通往光明的居所？ 哪里是黑暗的住处？

20 so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?

20 你能把它们带回原处吗？ 你认识通往其居所的路吗？

21 Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!

21 你肯定知道， 因为那时你已出生， 你的寿数又很长久！

22 Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

22 “你曾到过雪库， 或见过雹仓吗？

23 which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

23 那是我为降灾之时， 为争战之日而预备的。

24 In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

24 光从哪条路散开？ 东风从哪条路吹遍大地？

25 Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

25 谁为豪雨开水道， 为雷电辟路径，

26 to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,

26 使雨水降在杳无人烟之地， 降在无人居住的旷野，

27 to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

27 以滋润荒凉不毛之地， 使土地长出青草？

28 Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

28 雨水有父亲吗？ 谁生的露珠？

29 From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

29 冰出自谁的胎？ 谁生的天上的霜？

30 when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

30 水变得坚硬如石， 深渊表面凝结成冰。

31 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

31 “你能系住昴星的结， 解开参星的带吗？

32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

32 你能按季节领出星座， 引导北斗及其众星吗？

33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

33 你知道天的定律吗？ 你能使地服从天律吗？

34 Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

34 你能号令云彩， 使倾盆大雨覆盖你吗？

35 Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

35 你能命闪电发出， 让它听候调遣吗？

36 Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?

36 谁将智慧放在人胸中？ 谁使人内心有聪明？

37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

37–38 尘土结成硬团， 土块黏在一起时， 谁能凭智慧数算云彩？ 谁能倾倒天上的水囊？

38 when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?

39 Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

39–40 “狮子卧在洞中， 猛狮埋伏在隐秘处， 你能为它们猎取食物， 使它们饱餐吗？

40 when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?

41 Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

41 乌鸦的幼雏饿得飞来飞去， 向上帝哀鸣时， 谁供应乌鸦食物？