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約伯記-Job 第 15 章

15:1	提幔人以利法回答說， And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
15:2	智慧人豈可用虛空如風的知識回答，用東風充滿肚腹呢？ Should a wise man answer with the knowledge of wind, And should he fill his belly with the east wind?
15:3	他豈可用無益的話，和無濟於事的言語理論呢？ Should he argue with useless talk And with words by which he cannot avail?
15:4	你實在是廢棄對神的敬畏，阻止在神麵前的默想。 Indeed you do away with the fear of God And restrain meditation before God.
15:5	你的罪孽指教你的口，你選用詭詐人的舌頭。 For your iniquity instructs your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
15:6	你自己的口定你有罪，並非是我；你自己的嘴唇見證你的不是。 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; And your own lips testify against you.
15:7	你豈是頭一個生下來的人麼？你出生在諸山之先麼？ Are you the first man born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
15:8	你曾聽見神的密旨麼？你還將智慧獨歸己有麼？ Did you listen in on the secret council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
15:9	你知道什麼，是我們不知道的呢？你明白什麼，是我們不明白的呢？ What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not with us?
15:10	我們中間有白發的，也有年紀老邁的，歲數比你父親還大。 Both the grayheaded and the aged are among us, Older than your father.
15:11	神的安慰，和祂對你所說溫和的話，你以為太小麼？ Are the consolations of God too small for you, Or the word spoken gently to you?
15:12	你的心為何將你奪去？你的眼為何冒出火星， Why does your heart take you away? And why do your eyes flash,
15:13	使你的靈轉而反對神，也任你的口發出這樣的言語？ That you turn your spirit against God And let words go forth from your mouth?
15:14	人是什麼，竟能成為潔淨的呢？婦人所生的是什麼，竟能成為義的呢？ What is man, that he can be clean, Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
15:15	看哪，神不信靠祂的眾聖者；在祂眼前天也不潔淨。 Indeed, He puts no trust in His holy ones; Even the heavens are not clean in His eyes.
15:16	何況那可憎敗壞，喝不義如水的人呢！ How much less one who is abominable and corrupt! How much less a man who drinks wrong like water!
15:17	我指示你，你要聽我；我所看見的，我要述說， I will tell you; hear me; And what I have seen, that will I recount,
15:18	就是智慧人從列祖所受，傳說而不隱瞞的； What wise men have declared, And have not hidden, from their fathers;
15:19	這地惟獨賜給他們的列祖，並沒有外人從他們中間經過； To whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed in their midst:
15:20	惡人一生之日，劬勞痛苦；為強暴人積存的年日，都數算過了。 For all his days the wicked man travails in pain, And numbered years are stored up for the ruthless man.
15:21	驚嚇的聲音常在他耳中；在平安時，搶奪的必臨到他。 The sound of terrors is in his ears; While he is at peace, the destroyer will come upon him.
15:22	他不信自己能從黑暗中轉回；有刀劍窺伺等著他。 He does not believe that he will return from the darkness, And he is spied out for the sword.
15:23	他飄流在外求食，說，那裏有食物呢？他知道黑暗的日子在他手邊豫備好了。 He wanders for bread-where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.
15:24	急難窘困叫他害怕，而且勝了他，好像君王豫備好上陣攻擊一樣； Distress and straits terrify him; They prevail against him, like a king prepared for the attack;
15:25	因為他伸手攻擊神，逞強攻擊全能者， Because he stretched out his hand against God, And against the Almighty he acted mightily,
15:26	挺著頸項，用盾牌的厚凸麵，向全能者直闖； Running against Him with a stiff neck, With the thick bosses of his shield;
15:27	因為他的臉蒙上自己的脂油，腰上積滿肥肉； Because he covered his face with his fatness And gathered fat upon his loins;
15:28	他住在荒涼的城邑，住在人不該居住、注定將成亂堆的房屋。 And he dwelt in desolated cities, In houses which should not have been inhabited, Which were appointed to become heaps.
15:29	他不得富足，財物不得常存，出產也不累垂於地。 He will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure; Nor will his produce bend down to the earth.
15:30	他不得離開黑暗；火焰要將他的嫩枝燒幹，他要因神口中的氣逝去。 He will not go away from darkness; The flame will dry up his shoots, And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
15:31	願他不信靠虛假，欺哄自己；因虛假必成為他的報應。 Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity will be his recompense.
15:32	他的日期未到之先，這事必成就，他的枝子不得青茂。 It will be fully paid before his day, And his branch will not be flourishing.
15:33	他必像葡萄樹未熟的葡萄被打下，又像橄欖樹剛開的花被搖落。 He will shake off his unripe grapes like a vine, And he will cast off his blossom like an olive tree.
15:34	因為不虔敬之輩必無生育，受賄賂之人的帳棚必被火燒； For the company of the profane will be barren, And fire will devour the tents of bribery.
15:35	他們所懷的是毒害，所生的是罪孽，心裏所豫備的是詭詐。 They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepares deceit.

約伯記-Job 第 15 章