Job 18

1 Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —

書亞人比勒達回答說：

2 How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.

你尋索言語要到幾時呢？ 你可以揣摩思想，然後我們就說話。

3 Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?

我們為何算為畜生， 在你眼中看作污穢呢？

4 One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger, —For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its place?

你這惱怒將自己撕裂的， 難道大地為你見棄、 磐石挪開原處嗎？

5 Even the light of the lawless, shall go out, —Neither shall shine the flame of his fire;

惡人的亮光必要熄滅； 他的火焰必不照耀。

6 The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;

他帳棚中的亮光要變為黑暗； 他以上的燈也必熄滅。

7 The steppings of his strength are hemmed in, and his own counsel casteth him down;

他堅強的腳步必見狹窄； 自己的計謀必將他絆倒。

8 For he is thrust into a net by his own feet, and, upon a trap, he marcheth;

因為他被自己的腳陷入網中， 走在纏人的網羅上。

9 There catcheth him—by the heel—a gin, there holdeth him fast—a noose:

圈套必抓住他的腳跟； 機關必擒獲他。

10 Concealed in the ground is a cord for him, —and a snare for him, on the path.

活扣為他藏在土內； 羈絆為他藏在路上。

11 Round about, terrors have startled him, and have driven him to his feet.

四面的驚嚇要使他害怕， 並且追趕他的腳跟。

12 Let his strength be famished, and, calamity, be ready at his side;

他的力量必因飢餓衰敗； 禍患要在他旁邊等候。

13 Let it devour the members of his body, Let the firstborn of death devour his members;

他本身的肢體要被吞吃； 死亡的長子要吞吃他的肢體。

14 Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors;

他要從所倚靠的帳棚被拔出來， 帶到驚嚇的王那裏。

15 There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;

不屬他的必住在他的帳棚裏； 硫磺必撒在他所住之處。

16 Beneath, let his roots be dried up, and, above, be cut off his branch;

下邊，他的根本要枯乾； 上邊，他的枝子要剪除。

17 His memorial, have perished out of the land, and let him have no name over the face of the open field;

他的記念在地上必然滅亡； 他的名字在街上也不存留。

18 Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;

他必從光明中被攆到黑暗裏， 必被趕出世界。

19 Let him have neither scion nor seed among his people, neither any survivor in his place of sojourn:

在本民中必無子無孫； 在寄居之地也無一人存留。

20 Over his day, have they been astounded who come behind, and, them who are in advance, a shudder hath seized.

以後來的要驚奇他的日子， 好像以前去的受了驚駭。

21 Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD.

不義之人的住處總是這樣； 此乃不認識上帝之人的地步。