Job 8

1 Then responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said: —

书亚人比勒达回答说：

2 How long wilt thou speak these things? Or, as a mighty wind, shall be the sayings of thy mouth?

这些话你要说到几时？ 口中的言语如狂风要到几时呢？

3 Should, GOD, pervert justice? Or, the Almighty, pervert righteousness?

神岂能偏离公平？ 全能者岂能偏离公义？

4 Though, thy children, sinned against him, and he delivered them into the hand of their transgression,

或者你的儿女得罪了他； 他使他们受报应。

5 Yet, if, thou thyself, wilt diligently seek unto GOD, —and, unto the Almighty, wilt make supplication;

你若殷勤地寻求 神， 向全能者恳求；

6 If, pure and upright, thou thyself, art, surely, now, will he answer thy prayer, and will prosper thy righteous habitation:

你若清洁正直， 他必定为你起来， 使你公义的居所兴旺。

7 So shall thy beginning appear small, —when, thy latter end, he shall greatly increase!

你起初虽然微小， 终久必甚发达。

8 For inquire, I pray thee, of a former generation, and prepare thyself for the research of their fathers; —

请你考问前代， 追念他们的列祖所查究的。

9 For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:

我们不过从昨日才有，一无所知； 我们在世的日子好像影儿。

10 Shall, they, not teach thee—tell thee, and, out of their memory, bring forth words?

他们岂不指教你，告诉你， 从心里发出言语来呢？

11 Can the paper-reed grow up, without a marsh? Or the rush grow up, without water?

蒲草没有泥岂能发长？ 芦荻没有水岂能生发？

12 Though while still, in its freshness, it be not plucked off, yet, before any kind of grass, it doth wither:

尚青的时候，还没有割下， 比百样的草先枯槁。

13 So, shall be the latter end of all who forget GOD, and, the hope of the impious, shall perish:

凡忘记 神的人，景况也是这样； 不虔敬人的指望要灭没。

14 Whose trust shall be contemptible, —and, a spider’s web, his confidence:

他所仰赖的必折断； 他所倚靠的是蜘蛛网。

15 He leaneth upon his house, and it will not stand, he holdeth it fast, and it will not remain erect.

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。

16 Full of moisture he is, before the sun, and, over his garden, his shoot goeth forth:

他在日光之下发青， 蔓子爬满了园子；

17 Over a heap, his roots are entwined, a place of stones, he descrieth;

他的根盘绕石堆， 扎入石地。

18 If one destroy him out of his place, then will it disown him [saying] —I have not seen thee.

他若从本地被拔出， 那地就不认识他，说： 我没有见过你。

19 Lo! that, is the joy of his way, —and, out of the dust, shall others spring up.

看哪，这就是他道中之乐； 以后必另有人从地而生。

20 Lo! GOD, will not reject a blameless man, neither will he grasp the hand of evil-doers:

神必不丢弃完全人， 也不扶助邪恶人。

21 At length he shall fill with laughter thy mouth, and thy lips, with a shout of triumph:

他还要以喜笑充满你的口， 以欢呼充满你的嘴。

22 They who hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, but, the tent of the lawless, shall not be!

恨恶你的要披戴惭愧； 恶人的帐棚必归于无有。