比勒达发言
1书亚人比勒达回答约伯说：
2“你要这样絮叨到何时？
你的话犹如阵阵狂风。
3上帝岂会歪曲正义？
全能者岂会颠倒是非？
4如果你的儿女得罪了祂，
祂会给他们应有的惩罚。
5但你若寻求上帝，
向全能者恳求；
6你若纯洁、正直，
祂必起身相助，
恢复你应有的家园。
7你起初虽然卑微，
日后必兴旺发达。
8“你要请教先辈，
探究祖先的经验。
9因为我们就像昨天才出生，一无所知，
我们在世的日子如同掠影。
10先辈必给你教诲和指点，
向你道出明智之言。
11“蒲草无泥岂可长高？
芦苇无水岂可茂盛？
12它们还在生长、尚未割下，
已比百草先枯萎。
13忘记上帝的人，结局也是如此；
不信上帝的人，盼望终必破灭。
14他所仰仗的虚若游丝，
他所倚靠的诚如蛛网。
15他倚靠它，它却支撑不住；
他抓紧它，它却支离破碎。
16他像阳光下生机勃勃的植物，
枝条爬满了园囿，
17根茎盘绕石堆，
深深扎入石缝。
18一旦他被连根拔起，
原处必否认见过他。
19他的生命就这样消逝8:19 “他的生命就这样消逝”或译“这就是他一生的乐趣”。，
地上会兴起其他人。
20“上帝决不会抛弃纯全的人，
也不会扶持邪恶的人。
21祂要使你笑口常开，
欢声不断。
22憎恨你的人必抱愧蒙羞，
恶人的帐篷必不复存在。”
Bildad
1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
2“How long will you say such things?
Your words are a blustering wind.
3Does God pervert justice?
Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
4When your children sinned against him,
he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
5But if you will seek God earnestly
and plead with the Almighty,
6if you are pure and upright,
even now he will rouse himself on your behalf
and restore you to your prosperous state.
7Your beginnings will seem humble,
so prosperous will your future be.
8“Ask the former generation
and find out what their ancestors learned,
9for we were born only yesterday and know nothing,
and our days on earth are but a shadow.
10Will they not instruct you and tell you?
Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?
11Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh?
Can reeds thrive without water?
12While still growing and uncut,
they wither more quickly than grass.
13Such is the destiny of all who forget God;
so perishes the hope of the godless.
14What they trust in is fragile8:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.;
what they rely on is a spider’s web.
15They lean on the web, but it gives way;
they cling to it, but it does not hold.
16They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,
spreading its shoots over the garden;
17it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks
and looks for a place among the stones.
18But when it is torn from its spot,
that place disowns it and says, ‘I never saw you.’
19Surely its life withers away,
and8:19 Or Surely all the joy it has / is that from the soil other plants grow.
20“Surely God does not reject one who is blameless
or strengthen the hands of evildoers.
21He will yet fill your mouth with laughter
and your lips with shouts of joy.
22Your enemies will be clothed in shame,
and the tents of the wicked will be no more.”
