今日读经

以利法：你的话是虚空的

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

²智慧人岂可用虚空的知识回答，用东风充满肚腹呢？“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

³他岂可用无益的话和无济于事的言语理论呢？Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?

⁴你是废弃敬畏的意，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；你选用诡诈人的舌头。For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

⁶你自己的口定你有罪，并非是我；你自己的嘴见证你的不是。Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

你岂是头一个被生的人

⁷你岂是头一个被生的人吗？你受造在诸山之先吗？Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

⁸你曾听见　神的密旨吗？你还将智慧独自得尽吗？Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

⁹你知道什么是我们不知道的呢？你明白什么是我们不明白的呢？What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

¹⁰我们这里有白发的和年纪老迈的，比你父亲还老。Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father.

¹¹神用温和的话安慰你，你以为太小吗？Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?

¹²你的心为何将你逼去？你的眼为何冒出火星，Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

¹³使你的灵反对　神，也任你的口发这言语？so that you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?

人怎能算为洁净

¹⁴人是什么，竟算为洁净呢？妇人所生的是什么，竟算为义呢？What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

¹⁵神不信靠他的众圣者；在他眼前，天也不洁净，If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

¹⁶何况那污秽可憎、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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恶人一生劬劳痛苦

¹⁷我指示你，你要听；我要述说所看见的，Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,

¹⁸就是智慧人从列祖所受，传说而不隐瞒的。what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,

¹⁹（这地惟独赐给他们，并没有外人从他们中间经过。）to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.

²⁰恶人一生之日劬劳痛苦；强暴人一生的年数也是如此。A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

²¹惊吓的声音常在他耳中；在平安时，抢夺的必临到他那里。Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.

²²他不信自己能从黑暗中转回；他被刀剑等候。He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

²³他漂流在外求食，说：哪里有食物呢？他知道黑暗的日子在他手边预备好了。He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

²⁴急难困苦叫他害怕，而且胜了他，好像君王预备上阵一样。Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

²⁵他伸手攻击　神，以骄傲攻击全能者，For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

²⁶挺着颈项，用盾牌的厚凸面向全能者直闯；rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.

²⁷是因他的脸蒙上脂油，腰积成肥肉。Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,

²⁸他曾住在荒凉城邑，无人居住、将成乱堆的房屋。he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

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

³⁰他不得出离黑暗。火焰要将他的枝子烧干；因　神口中的气，他要灭亡（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他不用倚靠虚假欺哄自己，因虚假必成为他的报应。Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

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

³³他必像葡萄树的葡萄，未熟而落；又像橄榄树的花，一开而谢。He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

³⁴原来不敬虔之辈必无生育；受贿赂之人的帐棚必被火烧。For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

³⁵他们所怀的是毒害，所生的是罪孽；心里所预备的是诡诈。They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”

约伯：你们安慰人，反叫人愁烦

¹约伯回答说：Then Job answered:

²这样的话我听了许多；你们安慰人，反叫人愁烦。“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

³虚空的言语有穷尽吗？有什么话惹动你回答呢？Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?

⁴我也能说你们那样的话；你们若处在我的境遇，我也会联络言语攻击你们，又能向你们摇头。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但我必用口坚固你们，用嘴消解你们的忧愁。But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

神使我困倦，攻击我

⁶我虽说话，忧愁仍不得消解；我虽停住不说，忧愁就离开我吗？Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

⁷但现在　神使我困倦，使亲友远离我，Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

⁸又抓住我，作见证攻击我；我身体的枯瘦也当面见证我的不是。You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

⁹主发怒撕裂我，逼迫我，向我切齿；我的敌人怒目看我。His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

¹⁰他们向我开口，打我的脸羞辱我，聚会攻击我。They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

¹¹神把我交给不敬虔的人，把我扔到恶人的手中。God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

¹²我素来安逸，他折断我，掐住我的颈项，把我摔碎，又立我为他的箭靶子。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他的弓箭手四面围绕我；他破裂我的肺腑，并不留情，把我的胆倾倒在地上，His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

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

¹⁵我缝麻布在我皮肤上，把我的角放在尘土中。I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.

¹⁶我的脸因哭泣发紫，在我的眼皮上有死荫。My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;

¹⁷我的手中却无强暴；我的祈祷也是清洁。yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

在天有我的见证

¹⁸地啊，不要遮盖我的血！不要阻挡我的哀求！O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.

¹⁹现今，在天有我的见证，在上有我的中保。Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

²⁰我的朋友讥诮我，我却向　神眼泪汪汪。My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

²¹愿人得与　神辩白，如同人与朋友辩白一样；Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

²²因为再过几年，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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坟墓为我预备好了

¹我的心灵消耗，我的日子灭尽；坟墓为我预备好了。“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

²真有戏笑我的在我这里，我眼常见他们惹动我。Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

³愿主拿凭据给我，自己为我作保。在你以外谁肯与我击掌呢？Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?

⁴因你使他们心不明理，所以你必不高举他们。You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

⁵控告他的朋友、以朋友为可抢夺的，连他儿女的眼睛也要失明。If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

我作了民中的笑谈

⁶神使我作了民中的笑谈；他们也吐唾沫在我脸上。He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

⁷我的眼睛因忧愁昏花；我的百体好像影儿。My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

⁸正直人因此必惊奇；无辜的人要兴起攻击不敬虔之辈。The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.

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

我的指望在哪里

¹⁰至于你们众人，可以再来辩论吧！你们中间，我找不着一个智慧人。But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

¹¹我的日子已经过了；我的谋算、我心所想望的已经断绝。My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.

¹²他们以黑夜为白昼，说：亮光近乎黑暗。They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

¹³我若盼望阴间为我的房屋，若下榻在黑暗中，If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

¹⁴若对朽坏说：你是我的父；对虫说：你是我的母亲姊妹；and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

¹⁵这样，我的指望在哪里呢？我所指望的谁能看见呢？where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

¹⁶等到安息在尘土中，这指望必下到阴间的门闩那里了。Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

保罗在亚基帕面前分诉

¹亚基帕对保罗说：“准你为自己辩明。”于是保罗伸手分诉，说：Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defense:

²“亚基帕王啊，犹太人所告我的一切事，今日得在你面前分诉，实为万幸；“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，是你熟悉犹太人的规矩和他们的辩论；所以求你耐心听我。especially since you are acquainted with all the Jewish customs and controversies. I beg you, therefore, to listen to me patiently.

我从前是严紧的法利赛人

⁴我从起初在本国的民中，并在耶路撒冷，自幼为人如何，犹太人都知道。Surely all the Jews know how I have lived from my earliest childhood among my own people, and also in Jerusalem.

⁵他们若肯作见证就晓得，我从起初是按着我们教中最严紧的教门作了法利赛人。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现在我站在这里受审，是因为指望　神向我们祖宗所应许的；And now I stand on trial because of my hope in the promise that God made to our fathers,

⁷这应许，我们十二个支派，昼夜切切地事奉　神，都指望得着。王啊，我被犹太人控告，就是因这指望。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神叫死人复活，你们为什么看作不可信的呢？Why would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?

我曾逼迫圣徒

⁹从前我自己以为应当多方攻击拿撒勒人耶稣的名，So then, I too was convinced that I ought to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

¹⁰我在耶路撒冷也曾这样行了。既从祭司长得了权柄，我就把许多圣徒囚在监里。他们被杀，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在各会堂，我屡次用刑强逼他们说亵渎的话，又分外恼恨他们，甚至追逼他们，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.

大马士革路上的异象

¹²“那时，我领了祭司长的权柄和命令，往大马士革去。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，晌午的时候，看见从天发光，比日头还亮，四面照着我并与我同行的人。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我们都仆倒在地，我就听见有声音用希伯来话向我说：‘扫罗！扫罗！为什么逼迫我？你用脚踢刺是难的！’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我说：‘主啊，你是谁？’主说：‘我就是你所逼迫的耶稣。‘Who are You, Lord?’ I asked. ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied.

¹⁶你起来站着，我特意向你显现，要派你作执事，作见证，将你所看见的事和我将要指示你的事证明出来。‘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我也要救你脱离百姓和外邦人的手。I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

¹⁸我差你到他们那里去，要叫他们的眼睛得开，从黑暗中归向光明，从撒但权下归向　神；又因信我，得蒙赦罪，和一切成圣的人同得基业。’”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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我没有违背天上来的异象

¹⁹“亚基帕王啊，我故此没有违背那从天上来的异象；So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.

²⁰先在大马士革，后在耶路撒冷和犹太全地，以及外邦，劝勉他们应当悔改归向　神，行事与悔改的心相称。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，犹太人在殿里拿住我，想要杀我。For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

²²然而我蒙　神的帮助，直到今日还站得住，对着尊贵、卑贱、老幼作见证；所讲的并不外乎众先知和摩西所说将来必成的事，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就是基督必须受害，并且因从死里复活，要首先把光明的道传给百姓和外邦人。”that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

非斯都说保罗癫狂

²⁴保罗这样分诉，非斯都大声说：“保罗，你癫狂了吧。你的学问太大，反叫你癫狂了！”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保罗说：“非斯都大人，我不是癫狂，我说的乃是真实明白话。But Paul answered, “I am not insane, most excellent Festus; I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.

²⁶王也晓得这些事，所以我向王放胆直言，我深信这些事没有一件向王隐藏的，因都不是在背地里做的。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亚基帕王啊，你信先知吗？我知道你是信的。”King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do.”

²⁸亚基帕对保罗说：“你想少微一劝，便叫我作基督徒啊（或译：你这样劝我，几乎叫我作基督徒了）！”Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Can you persuade me in such a short time to become a Christian?”

²⁹保罗说：“无论是少劝是多劝，我向　神所求的，不但你一个人，就是今天一切听我的，都要像我一样，只是不要像我有这些锁链。”“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.”

他没有犯该死的罪

³⁰于是，王和巡抚并百妮基与同坐的人都起来，Then the king and the governor rose, along with Bernice and those seated with them.

³¹退到里面，彼此谈论说：“这人并没有犯什么该死该绑的罪。”On their way out, they said to one another, “This man has done nothing worthy of death or imprisonment.”

³²亚基帕又对非斯都说：“这人若没有上告于凯撒，就可以释放了。”And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”