Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

1 提幔人以利法回答说：

2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

2 “若有人向你进言， 你会厌烦吗？ 可是，谁能忍住不说呢？

3 Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.

3 你曾教导许多人， 使无力的手强壮。

4 Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

4 你的话使人免于跌倒， 你使颤抖的膝硬朗。

5 But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

5 但现在苦难一来， 你便灰心丧胆； 灾祸来临， 你便惊慌失措。

6 Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

6 你敬畏上帝还没有信心吗？ 你行为纯全还没有盼望吗？

7 Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

7 你想一想， 哪有无辜的人灭亡？ 哪有正直的人遭殃？

8 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

8 据我所见， 播恶收恶， 种祸得祸。

9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

9 他们被上帝的气息所毁， 被上帝的怒气所灭。

10 The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

10 狮子咆哮，猛狮吼叫， 雄狮的牙齿被敲掉。

11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

11 雄狮因无食而死， 母狮的幼崽离散。

12 Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.

12 “有信息暗暗地传给我， 一声低语传入我耳中。

13 In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

13 夜间人们沉睡的时候， 在搅扰思绪的异象中，

14 fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.

14 恐惧袭来， 令我战栗不已， 全身发抖。

15 Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.

15 有灵从我脸上拂过， 使我毛骨悚然。

16 It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:

16 那灵停住， 我无法辨认其模样。 眼前出现一个形状， 寂静中听见有声音说，

17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

17 ‘在上帝面前，世人岂算得上公义？ 在创造主面前，凡人岂算得上纯洁？

18 If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,

18 连上帝的仆人都无法令祂信任， 连祂的天使都被祂找出过错，

19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

19 更何况那源自尘土、 住在土造的躯壳里、 脆弱如蛾虫的世人呢？

20 They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

20 早晚之间，他们便被毁灭， 永远消逝，无人察觉。

21 Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’

21 他们帐篷的绳索拔掉了， 他们昏昏聩聩地死去。’