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 人若想与你说话，你就厌烦吗？ 但谁能忍住不说呢？

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

3 你素来教导许多的人， 又坚固软弱的手。

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

4 你的言语曾扶助那将要跌倒的人； 你又使软弱的膝稳固。

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

5 但现在祸患临到你，你就昏迷， 挨近你，你便惊惶。

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

6 你的倚靠不是在你敬畏 神吗？ 你的盼望不是在你行事纯正吗？

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

7 请你追想：无辜的人有谁灭亡？ 正直的人在何处剪除？

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

8 按我所见，耕罪孽、种毒害的人 都照样收割。

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

9 神一出气，他们就灭亡； 神一发怒，他们就消没。

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

10 狮子的吼叫和猛狮的声音尽都止息； 少壮狮子的牙齿也都敲掉。

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

11 老狮子因绝食而死； 母狮之子也都离散。

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

12 我暗暗地得了默示； 我耳朵也听其细微的声音。

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

13 在思念夜中、异象之间， 世人沉睡的时候，

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

14 恐惧、战兢临到我身， 使我百骨打战。

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

15 有灵从我面前经过， 我身上的毫毛直立。

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， 我却不能辨其形状； 有影像在我眼前。 我在静默中听见有声音说：

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

17 必死的人岂能比 神公义吗？ 人岂能比造他的主洁净吗？

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

18 主不信靠他的臣仆， 并且指他的使者为愚昧；

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 何况那住在土房、根基在尘土里、 被蠹虫所毁坏的人呢？

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

20 早晚之间，就被毁灭， 永归无有，无人理会。

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

21 他帐棚的绳索岂不从中抽出来呢？ 他死，且是无智慧而死。