Job 35

1 Elihu spoke moreover, and said,

以利户又说：

2 Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?

你以为有理， 或以为你的公义胜于 神的公义，

3 For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

才说这与我有什么益处？ 我不犯罪比犯罪有什么好处呢？

4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.

我要回答你和在你这里的朋友。

5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.

你要向天观看， 瞻望那高于你的穹苍。

6 If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you unto him?

你若犯罪，能使 神受何害呢？ 你的过犯加增，能使 神受何损呢？

7 If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?

你若是公义，还能加增他什么呢？ 他从你手里还接受什么呢？

8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

你的过恶或能害你这类的人； 你的公义或能叫世人得益处。

9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

人因多受欺压就哀求， 因受能者的辖制便求救，

10 But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

却无人说：造我的 神在哪里？ 他使人夜间歌唱，

11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

教训我们胜于地上的走兽， 使我们有聪明胜于空中的飞鸟。

12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

他们在那里， 因恶人的骄傲呼求，却无人答应。

13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

虚妄的呼求， 神必不垂听； 全能者也必不眷顾。

14 Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.

何况你说，你不得见他； 你的案件在他面前，你等候他吧。

15 But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:

但如今因他未曾发怒降罚， 也不甚理会狂傲，

16 Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.

所以约伯开口说虚妄的话， 多发无知识的言语。