Job
Chapter 4
1 Then spoke Eliphaz the Temanite, who said:
特曼人厄里法次开始说：
2 If someone attempts a word with you, will you mind? For how can anyone refrain from speaking?
人若和你讲话，你能忍受吗？但谁又能忍住不说？
3 Behold, you have instructed many, and have made firm their feeble hands.
看，你曾劝戒过许多人，坚固过软弱无能的人；
4 Your words have upheld the stumbler; you have strengthened his faltering knees.
你的话扶起了跌倒的人，坚固了膝弱无力的人；
5 But now that it comes to you, you are impatient; when it touches yourself, you are dismayed.
但是现今灾祸一临于你，你就萎靡不振；一接触你，你就沮丧失意。
6 Is not your piety a source of confidence, and your integrity of life your hope?
你敬畏天主之情，岂不是你的依靠？你完善的行为，岂不是你的希望？
7 Reflect now, what innocent person perishes? Since when are the upright destroyed?
请想：那有无辜者丧亡？那有正直者消逝？
8 As I see it, those who plow for mischief and sow trouble, reap the same.
照我所见：那播种邪恶的，必收邪恶；散布毒害的，必收毒害。
9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his wrath they are consumed.
天主一嘘气，他们即灭亡；一发怒气，他们即消失。
10 1 Though the lion roars, though the king of beasts cries out, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken;
狮吼豹嗥完全止息，幼狮的牙齿也被打碎；
11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
壮狮因缺猎物而灭绝，牝狮幼子各自东西离散。
12 2 For a word was stealthily brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it.
我窃听到一句话，我耳听见细语声。
13 In my thoughts during visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
当人沉睡时，夜梦多幻象；
14 Fear came upon me, and shuddering, that terrified me to the bones.
我恐怖战栗，全身骨头发抖。
15 Then a spirit passed before me, and the hair of my flesh stood up.
寒风掠过我面，使我毛发悚然。
16 It paused, but its likeness I could not discern; a figure was before my eyes, and I heard a still voice:
他停立不动，但我不能辨其形状；我面前出现形影，我听见细微的声音：
17＂Can a man be righteous as against God? Can a mortal be blameless against his Maker?
人岂能在天主前自以为义？在造他者前，自以为洁？
18 Lo, he puts no trust in his servants, and with his angels he can find fault.
看，他的仆役，他还不信；他的使者，他还归罪，
19 How much more with those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed more easily than the moth!
何况那以泥屋为居所，以尘土为基础的人！他们为人践踏，有如蠹虫；
20 Morning or evening they may be shattered; with no heed paid to it, they perish forever.
晨昏间即化为齑粉，永远消亡而无人回顾。
21 The pegs of their tent are plucked up; they die without knowing wisdom.＂
幕索已自断，他们就因缺少智慧而死亡？
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Footnotes（注解）
1 [10] The lion: used figuratively here for the violent, rapacious sinner who cannot prevail against God.
2 [12-21] A dramatic presentation of the idea of man's nothingness in contrast to God's greatness.