今日读经

比勒达：神岂能偏离公平

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

²这些话你要说到几时？口中的言语如狂风要到几时呢？“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.

³神岂能偏离公平？全能者岂能偏离公义？Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

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⁴或者你的儿女得罪了他；他使他们受报应。When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.

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⁵你若殷勤地寻求　神，向全能者恳求；But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,

⁶你若清洁正直，他必定为你起来，使你公义的居所兴旺。if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.

⁷你起初虽然微小，终久必甚发达。Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.

请你考问前代

⁸请你考问前代，追念他们的列祖所查究的。Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.

⁹我们不过从昨日才有，一无所知；我们在世的日子好像影儿。For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

¹⁰他们岂不指教你，告诉你，从心里发出言语来呢？Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding?

忘记神的人像无水的蒲草

¹¹蒲草没有泥岂能发长？芦荻没有水岂能生发？Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?

¹²尚青的时候，还没有割下，比百样的草先枯槁。While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up more quickly than grass.

¹³凡忘记　神的人，景况也是这样；不虔敬人的指望要灭没。Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.

¹⁴他所仰赖的必折断；他所倚靠的是蜘蛛网。His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.

¹⁵他要倚靠房屋，房屋却站立不住；他要抓住房屋，房屋却不能存留。He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.

¹⁶他在日光之下发青，蔓子爬满了园子；He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.

¹⁷他的根盘绕石堆，扎入石地。His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones.

¹⁸他若从本地被拔出，那地就不认识他，说：我没有见过你。If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’

¹⁹看哪，这就是他道中之乐；以后必另有人从地而生。Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.

神必不丢弃完全人

²⁰神必不丢弃完全人，也不扶助邪恶人。Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.

²¹他还要以喜笑充满你的口，以欢呼充满你的嘴。He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.

²²恨恶你的要披戴惭愧；恶人的帐棚必归于无有。Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

约伯：人在神面前怎能成为义

¹约伯回答说：Then Job answered:

²我真知道是这样；但人在　神面前怎能成为义呢？“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

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³若愿意与他争辩，千中之一也不能回答。If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

神的大能无人能挡

⁴他心里有智慧，且大有能力。谁向　神刚硬而得亨通呢？God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?

⁵他发怒，把山翻倒挪移，山并不知觉。He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.

⁶他使地震动，离其本位，地的柱子就摇撼。He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.

⁷他吩咐日头不出来，就不出来，又封闭众星。He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.

⁸他独自铺张苍天，步行在海浪之上。He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

⁹他造北斗、参星、昴星，并南方的密宫；He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

¹⁰他行大事，不可测度，行奇事，不可胜数。He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.

¹¹他从我旁边经过，我却不看见；他在我面前行走，我倒不知觉。Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; were He to move, I would not recognize Him.

¹²他夺取，谁能阻挡？谁敢问他：你做什么？If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’

¹³神必不收回他的怒气；扶助拉哈伯的，屈身在他以下。God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.

我怎敢与神辩论

¹⁴既是这样，我怎敢回答他，怎敢选择言语与他辩论呢？How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?

¹⁵我虽有义，也不回答他，只要向那审判我的恳求。For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

¹⁶我若呼吁，他应允我；我仍不信他真听我的声音。If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.

¹⁷他用暴风折断我，无故地加增我的损伤。For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

¹⁸我就是喘一口气，他都不容，倒使我满心苦恼。He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

¹⁹若论力量，他真有能力！若论审判，他说谁能将我传来呢？If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

²⁰我虽有义，自己的口要定我为有罪；我虽完全，我口必显我为弯曲。Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.

²¹我本完全，不顾自己；我厌恶我的性命。Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

²²善恶无分，都是一样；所以我说，完全人和恶人，他都灭绝。It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

²³若忽然遭杀害之祸，他必戏笑无辜的人遇难。When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

²⁴世界交在恶人手中；蒙蔽世界审判官的脸，若不是他，是谁呢？The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

我的日子比跑信的更快

²⁵我的日子比跑信的更快，急速过去，不见福乐。My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

²⁶我的日子过去如快船，如急落抓食的鹰。They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

²⁷我若说：我要忘记我的哀情，除去我的愁容，心中畅快；If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’

²⁸我因愁苦而惧怕，知道你必不以我为无辜。I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.

²⁹我必被你定为有罪，我何必徒然劳苦呢？Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

³⁰我若用雪水洗身，用硷洁净我的手，If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

³¹你还要扔我在坑里，我的衣服都憎恶我。then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

没有听讼的人

³²他本不像我是人，使我可以回答他，又使我们可以同听审判。For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.

³³我们中间没有听讼的人可以向我们两造按手。Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.

³⁴愿他把杖离开我，不使惊惶威吓我。Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.

³⁵我就说话，也不惧怕他，现在我却不是那样。Then I would speak without fear of Him. But as it is, I am on my own.

你为何与我争辩

¹我厌烦我的性命，必由着自己述说我的哀情；因心里苦恼，我要说话，“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

²对　神说：不要定我有罪，要指示我，你为何与我争辩？I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.

³你手所造的，你又欺压，又藐视，却光照恶人的计谋。这事你以为美吗？Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

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⁴你的眼岂是肉眼？你查看岂像人查看吗？Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?

⁵你的日子岂像人的日子，你的年岁岂像人的年岁，Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,

⁶就追问我的罪孽，寻察我的罪过吗？that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—

⁷其实，你知道我没有罪恶，并没有能救我脱离你手的。though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

你手创造我，又要毁灭我

⁸你的手创造我，造就我的四肢百体，你还要毁灭我。Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

⁹求你记念—制造我如抟泥一般，你还要使我归于尘土吗？Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

¹⁰你不是倒出我来好像奶，使我凝结如同奶饼吗？Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

¹¹你以皮和肉为衣给我穿上，用骨与筋把我全体联络。You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

¹²你将生命和慈爱赐给我；你也眷顾保全我的心灵。You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.

¹³然而，你待我的这些事早已藏在你心里；我知道你久有此意。Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:

¹⁴我若犯罪，你就察看我，并不赦免我的罪孽。If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

¹⁵我若行恶，便有了祸；我若为义，也不敢抬头，正是满心羞愧，眼见我的苦情。If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

¹⁶我若昂首自得，你就追捕我如狮子，又在我身上显出奇能。Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

¹⁷你重立见证攻击我，向我加增恼怒，如军兵更换着攻击我。You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

为何使我出母胎

¹⁸你为何使我出母胎呢？不如我当时气绝，无人得见我；Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

¹⁹这样，就如没有我一般，一出母胎就被送入坟墓。If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

^20–21我的日子不是甚少吗？求你停手宽容我，叫我在往而不返之先—就是往黑暗和死荫之地以先—可以稍得畅快。Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort, before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,

²²那地甚是幽暗，是死荫混沌之地；那里的光好像幽暗。to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

琐法：神追讨的比你该得的还少

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

²这许多的言语岂不该回答吗？多嘴多舌的人岂可称为义吗？“Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?

³你夸大的话岂能使人不作声吗？你戏笑的时候岂没有人叫你害羞吗？Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?

⁴你说：我的道理纯全；我在你眼前洁净。You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’

⁵惟愿　神说话；愿他开口攻击你，But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,

⁶并将智慧的奥秘指示你；他有诸般的智识。所以当知道　神追讨你比你罪孽该得的还少。and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

⁷你考察就能测透　神吗？你岂能尽情测透全能者吗？Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

⁸他的智慧高于天，你还能做什么？深于阴间，你还能知道什么？They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

⁹其量比地长，比海宽。Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

¹⁰他若经过，将人拘禁，招人受审，谁能阻挡他呢？If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?

¹¹他本知道虚妄的人；人的罪孽，他虽不留意，还是无所不见。Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?

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¹²空虚的人却毫无知识；人生在世好像野驴的驹子。But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!

你若将心安正

¹³你若将心安正，又向主举手；As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

¹⁴你手里若有罪孽，就当远远地除掉，也不容非义住在你帐棚之中。if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,

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¹⁵那时，你必仰起脸来毫无斑点；你也必坚固，无所惧怕。then indeed you will lift up your face without blemish; you will stand firm and unafraid.

¹⁶你必忘记你的苦楚，就是想起也如流过去的水一样。For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.

¹⁷你在世的日子要比正午更明，虽有黑暗仍像早晨。Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

¹⁸你因有指望就必稳固，也必四围巡查，坦然安息。You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.

¹⁹你躺卧，无人惊吓，且有许多人向你求恩。You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor.

²⁰但恶人的眼目必要失明。他们无路可逃；他们的指望就是气绝。But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”

帖土罗控告保罗

¹过了五天，大祭司亚拿尼亚同几个长老，和一个辩士帖土罗下来，向巡抚控告保罗。Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.

²保罗被提了来，帖土罗就告他说：When Paul had been called in, Tertullus opened the prosecution: “Because of you, we have enjoyed a lasting peace, and your foresight has brought improvements to this nation.

³“腓力斯大人，我们因你得以大享太平，并且这一国的弊病，因着你的先见得以更正了；我们随时随地满心感谢不尽。In every way and everywhere, most excellent Felix, we acknowledge this with all gratitude.

⁴惟恐多说，你嫌烦絮，只求你宽容听我们说几句话。But in order not to delay you any further, I beg your indulgence to hear us briefly.

⁵我们看这个人，如同瘟疫一般，是鼓动普天下众犹太人生乱的，又是拿撒勒教党里的一个头目，We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

⁶连圣殿他也想要污秽；我们把他捉住了。（有古卷加：要按我们的律法审问，and he even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.

⁷不料千夫长吕西亚前来，甚是强横，从我们手中把他夺去，吩咐告他的人到你这里来。）（BSB 英译本没有这一节）

⁸你自己究问他，就可以知道我们告他的一切事了。”By examining him yourself, you will be able to learn the truth about all our charges against him.”

⁹众犹太人也随着告他说：“事情诚然是这样。”The Jews concurred, asserting that these charges were true.

保罗答辩

¹⁰巡抚点头叫保罗说话。他就说：“我知道你在这国里断事多年，所以我乐意为自己分诉。When the governor motioned for Paul to speak, he began his response: “Knowing that you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I gladly make my defense.

¹¹你查问就可以知道，从我上耶路撒冷礼拜到今日不过有十二天。You can verify for yourself that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

¹²他们并没有看见我在殿里，或是在会堂里，或是在城里，和人辩论，耸动众人。Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city.

¹³他们现在所告我的事并不能对你证实了。Nor can they prove to you any of their charges against me.

按着那道事奉神

¹⁴但有一件事，我向你承认，就是他们所称为异端的道，我正按着那道事奉我祖宗的　神，又信合乎律法的和先知书上一切所记载的，I do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

¹⁵并且靠着　神，盼望死人，无论善恶，都要复活，就是他们自己也有这个盼望。and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.

¹⁶我因此自己勉励，对　神对人，常存无亏的良心。In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.

带着捐项上耶路撒冷

¹⁷过了几年，我带着周济本国的捐项和供献的物上去。After several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.

¹⁸正献的时候，他们看见我在殿里已经洁净了，并没有聚众，也没有吵嚷，惟有几个从亚细亚来的犹太人。At the time they found me in the temple, I was ceremonially clean and was not inciting a crowd or an uproar. But there are some Jews from the province of Asia

¹⁹他们若有告我的事，就应当到你面前来告我。who ought to appear before you and bring charges, if they have anything against me.

²⁰即或不然，这些人若看出我站在公会前，有妄为的地方，他们自己也可以说明。Otherwise, let these men state for themselves any crime they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin,

²¹纵然有，也不过一句话，就是我站在他们中间大声说：‘我今日在你们面前受审，是为死人复活的道理。’”unless it was this one thing I called out as I stood in their presence: ‘It is concerning the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.’”

腓力斯拖延审判

²²腓力斯本是详细晓得这道，就支吾他们说：“且等千夫长吕西亚下来，我要审断你们的事。”Then Felix, who was well informed about the Way, adjourned the hearing and said, “When Lysias the commander comes, I will decide your case.”

²³于是吩咐百夫长看守保罗，并且宽待他，也不拦阻他的亲友来供给他。He ordered the centurion to keep Paul under guard, but to allow him some freedom and permit his friends to minister to his needs.

讲论公义、节制和审判

²⁴过了几天，腓力斯和他夫人—犹太的女子土西拉—一同来到，就叫了保罗来，听他讲论信基督耶稣的道。After several days, Felix returned with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess. He sent for Paul and listened to him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.

²⁵保罗讲论公义、节制，和将来的审判。腓力斯甚觉恐惧，说：“你暂且去吧，等我得便再叫你来。”As Paul expounded on righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became frightened and said, “You may go for now. When I find the time, I will call for you.”

²⁶腓力斯又指望保罗送他银钱，所以屡次叫他来，和他谈论。At the same time, he was hoping that Paul would offer him a bribe. So he sent for Paul frequently and talked with him.

保罗被留在监里两年

²⁷过了两年，波求·非斯都接了腓力斯的任；腓力斯要讨犹太人的喜欢，就留保罗在监里。After two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And wishing to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.