今日读经

你且观看河马

¹⁵你且观看河马；我造你也造它。它吃草与牛一样；Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. He feeds on grass like an ox.

¹⁶它的气力在腰间，能力在肚腹的筋上。See the strength of his loins and the power in the muscles of his belly.

¹⁷它摇动尾巴如香柏树；它大腿的筋互相联络。His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.

¹⁸它的骨头好像铜管；它的肢体仿佛铁棍。His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.

¹⁹它在　神所造的物中为首；创造它的给它刀剑。He is the foremost of God’s works; only his Maker can draw the sword against him.

²⁰诸山给它出食物，也是百兽游玩之处。The hills yield him their produce, while all the beasts of the field play nearby.

²¹它伏在莲叶之下，卧在芦苇隐密处和水洼子里。He lies under the lotus plants, hidden among the reeds of the marsh.

²²莲叶的阴凉遮蔽它；溪旁的柳树环绕它。The lotus plants conceal him in their shade; the willows of the brook surround him.

²³河水泛滥，它不发战；就是约旦河的水涨到它口边，也是安然。Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid; he remains secure, though the Jordan surges to his mouth.

²⁴在它防备的时候，谁能捉拿它？谁能牢笼它穿它的鼻子呢？Can anyone capture him as he looks on, or pierce his nose with a snare?

你能用鱼钩钓上鳄鱼吗

¹你能用鱼钩钓上鳄鱼吗？能用绳子压下它的舌头吗？“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

²你能用绳索穿它的鼻子吗？能用钩穿它的腮骨吗？Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

³它岂向你连连恳求，说柔和的话吗？Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

⁴岂肯与你立约，使你拿它永远作奴仆吗？Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

⁵你岂可拿它当雀鸟玩耍吗？岂可为你的幼女将它拴住吗？Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

⁶搭伙的渔夫岂可拿它当货物吗？能把它分给商人吗？Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

⁷你能用倒钩枪扎满它的皮，能用鱼叉叉满它的头吗？Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

⁸你按手在它身上，想与它争战，就不再这样行吧！If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!

⁹人指望捉拿它是徒然的；一见它，岂不丧胆吗？Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?

谁能在我面前站立得住

¹⁰没有那么凶猛的人敢惹它。这样，谁能在我面前站立得住呢？No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?

¹¹谁先给我什么，使我偿还呢？天下万物都是我的。Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.

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鳄鱼的鳞甲与大力

¹²论到鳄鱼的肢体和其大力，并美好的骨骼，我不能缄默不言。I cannot keep silent about his limbs, his power and graceful form.

¹³谁能剥它的外衣？谁能进它上下牙骨之间呢？Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?

¹⁴谁能开它的腮颊？它牙齿四围是可畏的。Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

¹⁵它以坚固的鳞甲为可夸，紧紧合闭，封得严密。His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

¹⁶这鳞甲一一相连，甚至气不得透入其间，One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

¹⁷都是互相联络、胶结，不能分离。They are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.

喷火冒烟的巨兽

¹⁸它打喷嚏就发出光来；它眼睛好像早晨的光线（原文是眼皮）。His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

¹⁹从它口中发出烧着的火把，与飞迸的火星；Firebrands stream from his mouth; fiery sparks shoot forth!

²⁰从它鼻孔冒出烟来，如烧开的锅和点着的芦苇。Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.

²¹它的气点着煤炭，有火焰从它口中发出。His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.

²²它颈项中存着劲力；在它面前的都恐吓蹦跳。Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.

²³它的肉块互相联络，紧贴其身，不能摇动。The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

²⁴它的心结实如石头，如下磨石那样结实。His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

²⁵它一起来，勇士都惊恐，心里慌乱，便都昏迷。When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

刀枪都奈何不了牠

²⁶人若用刀，用枪，用标枪，用尖枪扎它，都是无用。The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or dart or arrow.

²⁷它以铁为干草，以铜为烂木。He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

²⁸箭不能恐吓它使它逃避；弹石在它看为碎秸。No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like chaff to him.

²⁹棍棒算为禾秸；它嗤笑短枪飕的响声。A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

³⁰它肚腹下如尖瓦片；它如钉耙经过淤泥。His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

³¹它使深渊开滚如锅，使洋海如锅中的膏油。He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

³²它行的路随后发光，令人想深渊如同白发。He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

³³在地上没有像它造的那样，无所惧怕。Nothing on earth is his equal—a creature devoid of fear!

³⁴凡高大的，它无不藐视；它在骄傲的水族上作王。He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”

约伯：现在亲眼看见你

¹约伯回答耶和华说：Then Job replied to the LORD:

²我知道，你万事都能做；你的旨意不能拦阻。“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.

³谁用无知的言语使你的旨意隐藏呢？我所说的是我不明白的；这些事太奇妙，是我不知道的。You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

⁴求你听我，我要说话；我问你，求你指示我。You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.’

⁵我从前风闻有你，现在亲眼看见你。My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You.

⁶因此我厌恶自己（或译：我的言语），在尘土和炉灰中懊悔。Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

神责备三个朋友

⁷耶和华对约伯说话以后，就对提幔人以利法说：“我的怒气向你和你两个朋友发作，因为你们议论我不如我的仆人约伯说的是。After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

⁸现在你们要取七只公牛，七只公羊，到我仆人约伯那里去，为自己献上燔祭，我的仆人约伯就为你们祈祷。我因悦纳他，就不按你们的愚妄办你们。你们议论我，不如我的仆人约伯说的是。”So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”

⁹于是提幔人以利法、书亚人比勒达、拿玛人琐法照着耶和华所吩咐的去行；耶和华就悦纳约伯。So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.

为朋友祈祷，神加倍赐福

¹⁰约伯为他的朋友祈祷。耶和华就使约伯从苦境（原文是掳掠）转回，并且耶和华赐给他的比他从前所有的加倍。After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.

¹¹约伯的弟兄、姊妹，和以先所认识的人都来见他，在他家里一同吃饭；又论到耶和华所降与他的一切灾祸，都为他悲伤安慰他。每人也送他一块银子和一个金环。All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

约伯晚年的福分

¹²这样，耶和华后来赐福给约伯比先前更多。他有一万四千羊，六千骆驼，一千对牛，一千母驴。So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

¹³他也有七个儿子，三个女儿。And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

¹⁴他给长女起名叫耶米玛，次女叫基洗亚，三女叫基连·哈朴。He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.

¹⁵在那全地的妇女中找不着像约伯的女儿那样美貌。她们的父亲使她们在弟兄中得产业。No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.

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¹⁶此后，约伯又活了一百四十年，得见他的儿孙，直到四代。After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

¹⁷这样，约伯年纪老迈，日子满足而死。And so Job died, old and full of years.

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都在罪恶之下

⁹这却怎么样呢？我们比他们强吗？决不是的！因我们已经证明：犹太人和希腊人都在罪恶之下。What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.

没有义人，连一个也没有

¹⁰就如经上所记：没有义人，连一个也没有。As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.

¹¹没有明白的；没有寻求　神的；There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.

¹²都是偏离正路，一同变为无用。没有行善的，连一个也没有。All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

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口舌嘴唇都有毒

¹³他们的喉咙是敞开的坟墓；他们用舌头弄诡诈，嘴唇里有虺蛇的毒气，“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

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¹⁴满口是咒骂苦毒。“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

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脚和眼都偏离平安

¹⁵杀人流血，他们的脚飞跑，“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

¹⁶所经过的路便行残害暴虐的事。ruin and misery lie in their wake,

¹⁷平安的路，他们未曾知道；and the way of peace they have not known.”

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¹⁸他们眼中不怕　神。“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

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律法塞住各人的口

¹⁹我们晓得律法上的话都是对律法以下之人说的，好塞住各人的口，叫普世的人都伏在　神审判之下。Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

²⁰所以凡有血气的，没有一个因行律法能在　神面前称义，因为律法本是叫人知罪。Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.