Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

1 提幔人以利法回答說：

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

2 人若想與你說話，你就厭煩嗎？ 但誰能忍住不說呢？

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

3 你素來教導許多的人， 又堅固軟弱的手。

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

4 你的言語曾扶助那將要跌倒的人； 你又使軟弱的膝穩固。

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

5 但現在禍患臨到你，你就昏迷， 挨近你，你便驚惶。

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上帝嗎？ 你的盼望不是在你行事純正嗎？

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

7 請你追想：無辜的人有誰滅亡？ 正直的人在何處剪除？

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

8 按我所見，耕罪孽、種毒害的人 都照樣收割。

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

9 上帝一出氣，他們就滅亡； 上帝一發怒，他們就消沒。

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

10 獅子的吼叫和猛獅的聲音盡都止息； 少壯獅子的牙齒也都敲掉。

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

11 老獅子因絕食而死； 母獅之子也都離散。

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

12 我暗暗地得了默示； 我耳朵也聽其細微的聲音。

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

13 在思念夜中、異象之間， 世人沉睡的時候，

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

14 恐懼、戰兢臨到我身， 使我百骨打戰。

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

15 有靈從我面前經過， 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 那靈停住， 我卻不能辨其形狀； 有影像在我眼前。 我在靜默中聽見有聲音說：

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

17 必死的人豈能比上帝公義嗎？ 人豈能比造他的主潔淨嗎？

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

18 主不信靠他的臣僕， 並且指他的使者為愚昧；

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 何況那住在土房、根基在塵土裏、 被蠹蟲所毀壞的人呢？

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

20 早晚之間，就被毀滅， 永歸無有，無人理會。

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

21 他帳棚的繩索豈不從中抽出來呢？ 他死，且是無智慧而死。