今日读经

比勒达：你寻索言语要到几时

¹书亚人比勒达回答说：Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

²你寻索言语要到几时呢？你可以揣摩思想，然后我们就说话。“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

³我们为何算为畜生，在你眼中看作污秽呢？Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

⁴你这恼怒将自己撕裂的，难道大地为你见弃、磐石挪开原处吗？You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

恶人的灯必熄灭

⁵恶人的亮光必要熄灭；他的火焰必不照耀。Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

⁶他帐棚中的亮光要变为黑暗；他以上的灯也必熄灭。The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

⁷他坚强的脚步必见狭窄；自己的计谋必将他绊倒。His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

⁸因为他被自己的脚陷入网中，走在缠人的网罗上。For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

⁹圈套必抓住他的脚跟；机关必擒获他。A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

¹⁰活扣为他藏在土内；羁绊为他藏在路上。A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

惊吓追赶恶人

¹¹四面的惊吓要使他害怕，并且追赶他的脚跟。Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

¹²他的力量必因饥饿衰败；祸患要在他旁边等候。His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

¹³他本身的肢体要被吞吃；死亡的长子要吞吃他的肢体。It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

¹⁴他要从所倚靠的帐棚被拔出来，带到惊吓的王那里。He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

¹⁵不属他的必住在他的帐棚里；硫磺必撒在他所住之处。Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

¹⁶下边，他的根本要枯干；上边，他的枝子要剪除。The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

¹⁷他的记念在地上必然灭亡；他的名字在街上也不存留。The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

¹⁸他必从光明中被撵到黑暗里，必被赶出世界。He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

¹⁹在本民中必无子无孙；在寄居之地也无一人存留。He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

²⁰以后来的要惊奇他的日子，好像以前去的受了惊骇。Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

²¹不义之人的住处总是这样；此乃不认识　神之人的地步。Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”

约伯：你们羞辱我要到几时

¹约伯回答说：Then Job answered:

²你们搅扰我的心，用言语压碎我要到几时呢？“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?

³你们这十次羞辱我；你们苦待我也不以为耻。Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.

⁴果真我有错，这错乃是在我。Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.

⁵你们果然要向我夸大，以我的羞辱为证指责我，If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

是神倾覆我

⁶就该知道是　神倾覆我，用网罗围绕我。then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

⁷我因委曲呼叫，却不蒙应允；我呼求，却不得公断。Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

⁸神用篱笆拦住我的道路，使我不得经过；又使我的路径黑暗。He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

⁹他剥去我的荣光，摘去我头上的冠冕。He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

¹⁰他在四围攻击我，我便归于死亡，将我的指望如树拔出来。He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

¹¹他的忿怒向我发作，以我为敌人。His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.

¹²他的军旅一齐上来，修筑战路攻击我，在我帐棚的四围安营。His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

亲友都离弃我

¹³他把我的弟兄隔在远处，使我所认识的全然与我生疏。He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.

¹⁴我的亲戚与我断绝；我的密友都忘记我。My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵在我家寄居的，和我的使女都以我为外人；我在他们眼中看为外邦人。My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

¹⁶我呼唤仆人，虽用口求他，他还是不回答。I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.

¹⁷我口的气味，我妻子厌恶；我的恳求，我同胞也憎嫌。My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

¹⁸连小孩子也藐视我；我若起来，他们都嘲笑我。Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

¹⁹我的密友都憎恶我；我平日所爱的人向我翻脸。All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

²⁰我的皮肉紧贴骨头；我只剩牙皮逃脱了。My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

朋友啊，可怜我

²¹我朋友啊，可怜我！可怜我！因为　神的手攻击我。Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

²²你们为什么仿佛　神逼迫我，吃我的肉还以为不足呢？Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

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我知道我的救赎主活着

²³惟愿我的言语现在写上，都记录在书上；I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,

²⁴用铁笔镌刻，用铅灌在磐石上，直存到永远。by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

²⁵我知道我的救赎主活着，末了必站立在地上。But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.

²⁶我这皮肉灭绝之后，我必在肉体之外得见　神。Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

²⁷我自己要见他，亲眼要看他，并不像外人。我的心肠在我里面消灭了！I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

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你们当惧怕刀剑

²⁸你们若说：我们逼迫他要何等地重呢？惹事的根乃在乎他；If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’

²⁹你们就当惧怕刀剑；因为忿怒惹动刀剑的刑罚，使你们知道有报应（原文是审判）。then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”

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琐法：恶人夸胜是暂时的

¹拿玛人琐法回答说：Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

²我心中急躁，所以我的思念叫我回答。“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.

³我已听见那羞辱我，责备我的话；我的悟性叫我回答。I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.

⁴你岂不知亘古以来，自从人生在地，Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,

⁵恶人夸胜是暂时的，不敬虔人的喜乐不过转眼之间吗？the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

⁶他的尊荣虽达到天上，头虽顶到云中，Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

⁷他终必灭亡，像自己的粪一样；素来见他的人要说：他在哪里呢？he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’

⁸他必飞去如梦，不再寻见，速被赶去，如夜间的异象。He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

⁹亲眼见过他的，必不再见他；他的本处也再见不着他。The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.

¹⁰他的儿女要求穷人的恩；他的手要赔还不义之财。His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.

¹¹他的骨头虽然有青年之力，却要和他一同躺卧在尘土中。The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

不义之财终要吐出

¹²他口内虽以恶为甘甜，藏在舌头底下，Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

¹³爱恋不舍，含在口中；though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

¹⁴他的食物在肚里却要化为酸，在他里面成为虺蛇的恶毒。yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

¹⁵他吞了财宝，还要吐出；　神要从他腹中掏出来。He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.

¹⁶他必吸饮虺蛇的毒气；蝮蛇的舌头也必杀他。He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.

¹⁷流奶与蜜之河，他不得再见。He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

¹⁸他劳碌得来的要赔还，不得享用（原文是吞下）；不能照所得的财货欢乐。He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.

¹⁹他欺压穷人，且又离弃；强取非自己所盖的房屋（或译：强取房屋不得再建造）。For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.

²⁰他因贪而无厌，所喜悦的连一样也不能保守。Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.

²¹其余的没有一样他不吞灭，所以他的福乐不能长久。Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.

²²他在满足有余的时候，必到狭窄的地步；凡受苦楚的人都必加手在他身上。In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.

神的忿怒临到恶人

²³他正要充满肚腹的时候，　神必将猛烈的忿怒降在他身上；正在他吃饭的时候，要将这忿怒像雨降在他身上。When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.

²⁴他要躲避铁器；铜弓的箭要将他射透。Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.

²⁵他把箭一抽，就从他身上出来；发光的箭头从他胆中出来，有惊惶临在他身上。It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.

²⁶他的财宝归于黑暗；人所不吹的火要把他烧灭，要把他帐棚中所剩下的烧毁。Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

²⁷天要显明他的罪孽；地要兴起攻击他。The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.

²⁸他的家产必然过去；　神发怒的日子，他的货物都要消灭。The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.

²⁹这是恶人从　神所得的分，是　神为他所定的产业。This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”

保罗被押往意大利

¹非斯都既然定规了，叫我们坐船往意大利去，便将保罗和别的囚犯交给御营里的一个百夫长，名叫犹流。When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment.

²有一只亚大米田的船，要沿着亚细亚一带地方的海边走，我们就上了那船开行；有马其顿的帖撒罗尼迦人亚里达古和我们同去。We boarded an Adramyttian ship about to sail for ports along the coast of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.

逆风慢行到佳澳

³第二天，到了西顿；犹流宽待保罗，准他往朋友那里去，受他们的照应。The next day we landed at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul with consideration, allowing him to visit his friends and receive their care.

⁴从那里又开船，因为风不顺，就贴着塞浦路斯背风岸行去。After putting out from there, we sailed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

⁵过了基利家、旁非利亚前面的海，就到了吕家的每拉。And when we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia.

⁶在那里，百夫长遇见一只亚历山大的船，要往意大利去，便叫我们上了那船。There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.

⁷一连多日，船行得慢，仅仅来到革尼土的对面。因为被风拦阻，就贴着克里特背风岸，从撒摩尼对面行过。After sailing slowly for many days, we arrived off Cnidus. When the wind impeded us, we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.

⁸我们沿岸行走，仅仅来到一个地方，名叫佳澳；离那里不远，有拉西亚城。After we had moved along the coast with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.

保罗警告行船危险

⁹走的日子多了，已经过了禁食的节期，行船又危险，保罗就劝众人说：By now much time had passed, and the voyage had already become dangerous because it was after the Fast. So Paul advised them,

¹⁰“众位，我看这次行船，不但货物和船要受伤损，大遭破坏，连我们的性命也难保。”“Men, I can see that our voyage will be filled with disaster and great loss, not only to ship and cargo, but to our own lives as well.”

¹¹但百夫长信从掌船的和船主，不信从保罗所说的。But contrary to Paul’s advice, the centurion was persuaded by the pilot and by the owner of the ship.

¹²且因在这海口过冬不便，船上的人就多半说，不如开船离开这地方，或者能到菲尼基过冬。菲尼基是克里特的一个海口，一面朝东北，一面朝东南。Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to sail on, hoping that somehow they could reach Phoenix to winter there. Phoenix was a harbor in Crete facing both southwest and northwest.

遇上友拉革罗狂风

¹³这时，微微起了南风，他们以为得意，就起了锚，贴近克里特行去。When a gentle south wind began to blow, they thought they had their opportunity. So they weighed anchor and sailed along, hugging the coast of Crete.

¹⁴不多几时，狂风从岛上扑下来；那风名叫“友拉革罗”。But it was not long before a cyclone called the Northeaster swept down across the island.

¹⁵船被风抓住，敌不住风，我们就任风刮去。Unable to head into the wind, the ship was caught up. So we gave way and let ourselves be driven along.

¹⁶贴着一个小岛的背风岸奔行，那岛名叫高大，在那里仅仅收住了小船。Passing to the lee of a small island called Cauda, we barely managed to secure the lifeboat.

¹⁷既然把小船拉上来，就用缆索捆绑船底，又恐怕在赛耳底沙滩上搁了浅，就落下篷来，任船飘去。After hoisting it up, the crew used ropes to undergird the ship. And fearing that they would run aground on the sandbars of Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and were driven along.

抛弃货物和器具

¹⁸我们被风浪逼得甚急，第二天众人就把货物抛在海里。We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.

¹⁹到第三天，他们又亲手把船上的器具抛弃了。On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.

²⁰太阳和星辰多日不显露，又有狂风大浪催逼，我们得救的指望就都绝了。When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.

天使的应许

²¹众人多日没有吃什么，保罗就出来站在他们中间，说：“众位，你们本该听我的话，不离开克里特，免得遭这样的伤损破坏。After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete. Then you would have averted this disaster and loss.

²²现在我还劝你们放心，你们的性命一个也不失丧，惟独失丧这船。But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because you will not experience any loss of life, but only of the ship.

²³因我所属所事奉的　神，他的使者昨夜站在我旁边，说：For just last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me

²⁴‘保罗，不要害怕，你必定站在凯撒面前，并且与你同船的人，　神都赐给你了。’and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And look, God has granted you the lives of all who sail with you.’

²⁵所以众位可以放心，我信　神他怎样对我说，事情也要怎样成就。So take courage, men, for I believe God that it will happen just as He told me.

²⁶只是我们必要撞在一个岛上。”However, we must run aground on some island.”