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以利法：你的話是虛空的

¹提幔人以利法回答說：Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

²智慧人豈可用虛空的知識回答，用東風充滿肚腹呢？“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

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 words or speeches that serve no purpose?

⁴你是廢棄敬畏的意，在　神面前阻止敬虔的心。But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.

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 language of the crafty.

⁶你自己的口定你有罪，並非是我；你自己的嘴見證你的不是。Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

你豈是頭一個被生的人

⁷你豈是頭一個被生的人嗎？你受造在諸山之先嗎？Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

⁸你曾聽見　神的密旨嗎？你還將智慧獨自得盡嗎？Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

⁹你知道甚麼是我們不知道的呢？你明白甚麼是我們不明白的呢？What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

¹⁰我們這裡有白髮的和年紀老邁的，比你父親還老。Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father.

¹¹神用溫和的話安慰你，你以為太小嗎？Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?

¹²你的心為何將你逼去？你的眼為何冒出火星，Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

¹³使你的靈反對　神，也任你的口發這言語？so that you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?

人怎能算為潔淨

¹⁴人是甚麼，竟算為潔淨呢？婦人所生的是甚麼，竟算為義呢？What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

¹⁵神不信靠他的眾聖者；在他眼前，天也不潔淨，If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

¹⁶何況那污穢可憎、喝罪孽如水的世人呢！how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

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惡人一生劬勞痛苦

¹⁷我指示你，你要聽；我要述說所看見的，Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,

¹⁸就是智慧人從列祖所受，傳說而不隱瞞的。what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,

¹⁹（這地惟獨賜給他們，並沒有外人從他們中間經過。）to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.

²⁰惡人一生之日劬勞痛苦；強暴人一生的年數也是如此。A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

²¹驚嚇的聲音常在他耳中；在平安時，搶奪的必臨到他那裡。Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.

²²他不信自己能從黑暗中轉回；他被刀劍等候。He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

²³他漂流在外求食，說：哪裡有食物呢？他知道黑暗的日子在他手邊預備好了。He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

²⁴急難困苦叫他害怕，而且勝了他，好像君王預備上陣一樣。Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

²⁵他伸手攻擊　神，以驕傲攻擊全能者，For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

²⁶挺著頸項，用盾牌的厚凸面向全能者直闖；rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.

²⁷是因他的臉蒙上脂油，腰積成肥肉。Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,

²⁸他曾住在荒涼城邑，無人居住、將成亂堆的房屋。he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

²⁹他不得富足，財物不得常存，產業在地上也不加增。He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.

³⁰他不得出離黑暗。火焰要將他的枝子燒乾；因　神口中的氣，他要滅亡（原文是走去）。He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.

³¹他不用倚靠虛假欺哄自己，因虛假必成為他的報應。Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

³²他的日期未到之先，這事必成就；他的枝子不得青綠。It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.

³³他必像葡萄樹的葡萄，未熟而落；又像橄欖樹的花，一開而謝。He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

³⁴原來不敬虔之輩必無生育；受賄賂之人的帳棚必被火燒。For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

³⁵他們所懷的是毒害，所生的是罪孽；心裡所預備的是詭詐。They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”

約伯：你們安慰人，反叫人愁煩

¹約伯回答說：Then Job answered:

²這樣的話我聽了許多；你們安慰人，反叫人愁煩。“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

³虛空的言語有窮盡嗎？有甚麼話惹動你回答呢？Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?

⁴我也能說你們那樣的話；你們若處在我的境遇，我也會聯絡言語攻擊你們，又能向你們搖頭。I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

⁵但我必用口堅固你們，用嘴消解你們的憂愁。But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

神使我困倦，攻擊我

⁶我雖說話，憂愁仍不得消解；我雖停住不說，憂愁就離開我嗎？Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

⁷但現在　神使我困倦，使親友遠離我，Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

⁸又抓住我，作見證攻擊我；我身體的枯瘦也當面見證我的不是。You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

⁹主發怒撕裂我，逼迫我，向我切齒；我的敵人怒目看我。His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

¹⁰他們向我開口，打我的臉羞辱我，聚會攻擊我。They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

¹¹神把我交給不敬虔的人，把我扔到惡人的手中。God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

¹²我素來安逸，他折斷我，掐住我的頸項，把我摔碎，又立我為他的箭靶子。I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

¹³他的弓箭手四面圍繞我；他破裂我的肺腑，並不留情，把我的膽傾倒在地上，His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

¹⁴將我破裂又破裂，如同勇士向我直闖。He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

¹⁵我縫麻布在我皮膚上，把我的角放在塵土中。I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.

¹⁶我的臉因哭泣發紫，在我的眼皮上有死蔭。My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;

¹⁷我的手中卻無強暴；我的祈禱也是清潔。yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

在天有我的見證

¹⁸地啊，不要遮蓋我的血！不要阻擋我的哀求！O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.

¹⁹現今，在天有我的見證，在上有我的中保。Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

²⁰我的朋友譏誚我，我卻向　神眼淚汪汪。My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

²¹願人得與　神辯白，如同人與朋友辯白一樣；Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

²²因為再過幾年，我必走那往而不返之路。For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

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墳墓為我預備好了

¹我的心靈消耗，我的日子滅盡；墳墓為我預備好了。“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

²真有戲笑我的在我這裡，我眼常見他們惹動我。Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

³願主拿憑據給我，自己為我作保。在你以外誰肯與我擊掌呢？Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?

⁴因你使他們心不明理，所以你必不高舉他們。You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

⁵控告他的朋友、以朋友為可搶奪的，連他兒女的眼睛也要失明。If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

我作了民中的笑談

⁶神使我作了民中的笑談；他們也吐唾沫在我臉上。He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

⁷我的眼睛因憂愁昏花；我的百體好像影兒。My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

⁸正直人因此必驚奇；無辜的人要興起攻擊不敬虔之輩。The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.

⁹然而，義人要持守所行的道；手潔的人要力上加力。Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

我的指望在哪裡

¹⁰至於你們眾人，可以再來辯論吧！你們中間，我找不著一個智慧人。But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

¹¹我的日子已經過了；我的謀算、我心所想望的已經斷絕。My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.

¹²他們以黑夜為白晝，說：亮光近乎黑暗。They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

¹³我若盼望陰間為我的房屋，若下榻在黑暗中，If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

¹⁴若對朽壞說：你是我的父；對蟲說：你是我的母親姊妹；and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

¹⁵這樣，我的指望在哪裡呢？我所指望的誰能看見呢？where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

¹⁶等到安息在塵土中，這指望必下到陰間的門閂那裡了。Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

保羅在亞基帕面前分訴

¹亞基帕對保羅說：「准你為自己辯明。」於是保羅伸手分訴，說：Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defense:

²「亞基帕王啊，猶太人所告我的一切事，今日得在你面前分訴，實為萬幸；“King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate to stand before you today to defend myself against all the accusations of the Jews,

³更可幸的，是你熟悉猶太人的規矩和他們的辯論；所以求你耐心聽我。especially since you are acquainted with all the Jewish customs and controversies. I beg you, therefore, to listen to me patiently.

我從前是嚴緊的法利賽人

⁴我從起初在本國的民中，並在耶路撒冷，自幼為人如何，猶太人都知道。Surely all the Jews know how I have lived from my earliest childhood among my own people, and also in Jerusalem.

⁵他們若肯作見證就曉得，我從起初是按著我們教中最嚴緊的教門作了法利賽人。They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion.

⁶現在我站在這裡受審，是因為指望　神向我們祖宗所應許的；And now I stand on trial because of my hope in the promise that God made to our fathers,

⁷這應許，我們十二個支派，晝夜切切地事奉　神，都指望得著。王啊，我被猶太人控告，就是因這指望。the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. It is because of this hope, O king, that I am accused by the Jews.

⁸神叫死人復活，你們為甚麼看作不可信的呢？Why would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?

我曾逼迫聖徒

⁹從前我自己以為應當多方攻擊拿撒勒人耶穌的名，So then, I too was convinced that I ought to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

¹⁰我在耶路撒冷也曾這樣行了。既從祭司長得了權柄，我就把許多聖徒囚在監裡。他們被殺，我也出名定案。And that is what I did in Jerusalem. With authority from the chief priests I put many of the saints in prison, and when they were condemned to death, I cast my vote against them.

¹¹在各會堂，我屢次用刑強逼他們說褻瀆的話，又分外惱恨他們，甚至追逼他們，直到外邦的城邑。」I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

大馬士革路上的異象

¹²「那時，我領了祭司長的權柄和命令，往大馬士革去。In this pursuit I was on my way to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.

¹³王啊，我在路上，晌午的時候，看見從天發光，比日頭還亮，四面照著我並與我同行的人。About noon, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and my companions.

¹⁴我們都仆倒在地，我就聽見有聲音用希伯來話向我說：『掃羅！掃羅！為甚麼逼迫我？你用腳踢刺是難的！』We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

¹⁵我說：『主啊，你是誰？』主說：『我就是你所逼迫的耶穌。‘Who are You, Lord?’ I asked. ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied.

¹⁶你起來站著，我特意向你顯現，要派你作執事，作見證，將你所看見的事和我將要指示你的事證明出來。‘But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I will show you.

¹⁷我也要救你脫離百姓和外邦人的手。I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

¹⁸我差你到他們那裡去，要叫他們的眼睛得開，從黑暗中歸向光明，從撒但權下歸向　神；又因信我，得蒙赦罪，和一切成聖的人同得基業。』」to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

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我沒有違背天上來的異象

¹⁹「亞基帕王啊，我故此沒有違背那從天上來的異象；So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.

²⁰先在大馬士革，後在耶路撒冷和猶太全地，以及外邦，勸勉他們應當悔改歸向　神，行事與悔改的心相稱。First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.

²¹因此，猶太人在殿裡拿住我，想要殺我。For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

²²然而我蒙　神的幫助，直到今日還站得住，對著尊貴、卑賤、老幼作見證；所講的並不外乎眾先知和摩西所說將來必成的事，But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:

²³就是基督必須受害，並且因從死裡復活，要首先把光明的道傳給百姓和外邦人。」that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

非斯都說保羅癲狂

²⁴保羅這樣分訴，非斯都大聲說：「保羅，你癲狂了吧。你的學問太大，反叫你癲狂了！」At this stage of Paul’s defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, “You are insane, Paul! Your great learning is driving you to madness!”

²⁵保羅說：「非斯都大人，我不是癲狂，我說的乃是真實明白話。But Paul answered, “I am not insane, most excellent Festus; I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.

²⁶王也曉得這些事，所以我向王放膽直言，我深信這些事沒有一件向王隱藏的，因都不是在背地裡做的。For the king knows about these matters, and I can speak freely to him. I am confident that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner.

²⁷亞基帕王啊，你信先知嗎？我知道你是信的。」King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do.”

²⁸亞基帕對保羅說：「你想少微一勸，便叫我作基督徒啊（或譯：你這樣勸我，幾乎叫我作基督徒了）！」Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Can you persuade me in such a short time to become a Christian?”

²⁹保羅說：「無論是少勸是多勸，我向　神所求的，不但你一個人，就是今天一切聽我的，都要像我一樣，只是不要像我有這些鎖鍊。」“Short time or long,” Paul replied, “I wish to God that not only you but all who hear me this day may become what I am, except for these chains.”

他沒有犯該死的罪

³⁰於是，王和巡撫並百妮基與同坐的人都起來，Then the king and the governor rose, along with Bernice and those seated with them.

³¹退到裡面，彼此談論說：「這人並沒有犯甚麼該死該綁的罪。」On their way out, they said to one another, “This man has done nothing worthy of death or imprisonment.”

³²亞基帕又對非斯都說：「這人若沒有上告於凱撒，就可以釋放了。」And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”