Job 42

1 Then Job answered the LORD:

約伯回答上主說：

2 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

我知道你事事都能，你所有的計劃，沒有不實現的。

3 You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

是我以無智的話，使你的計劃模糊不明；是我說了無知的話，說了那些超越我智力的話。

4 You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

請你聽我發言；我求你指教我。

5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

以前我只聽見了有關你的事，現今我親眼見了你。

6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

為此，我收回我所說過的話，坐在灰塵中懺悔。

7 It was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

上主對約伯說完這些話，就對特曼人厄里法次說：「我應向你和你的兩個友人發怒，因為你們講論我，不如我僕約伯講論的正確。

8 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”

現在你們要牽七頭公牛，和七隻公羊到我僕約伯那裏，叫他為你們奉獻全燔祭，也叫他為你們祈禱，因為我要看他的情面，不懲罰你們的糊塗，因為你們講論我，不如我僕約伯講的正確。」

9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted Job.

於是，特曼人厄里法次、叔亞人彼耳達得、納阿瑪人左法爾依照上主所吩咐的作了；上主就看了約伯的情面，饒恕了他們。

10 The LORD restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

約伯為他的朋友祈禱之後，上主就恢復了約伯原有的狀況，還照約伯以前所有的，加倍地賜給了他。

11 Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that the LORD had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

約伯的兄弟和姊妹，並以前相識的人都來看望他，在他家中同他一起用飯；對於上主降於他的一切災禍，都向他表示同情，安慰他；每人還贈給他一枚金幣和一個金戒指。

12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

上主賜給約伯以後的福分，遠勝過以前所有的；他擁有一萬四千隻羊，六千匹駱駝，一千對牛，一千頭母驢。

13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.

他又生了七個兒子和三個女兒。

14 He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.

他給長女起名叫耶米瑪，次女叫刻漆雅，三女叫刻楞哈普客。

15 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.

那地方的女子沒有比約伯的女兒更美麗的；她們的父親也使她們和兄弟們一樣承受家產。

16 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

以後，約伯又活了一百四十歲，見了他的兒子、孫子，直到第四代。

17 So Job died, being old and full of days.

約伯壽高年老，已享天年，遂與世長辭。