Job
1Then Job replied:
2“How you have helped the powerless!
How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
3What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
And what great insight you have displayed!
4Who has helped you utter these words?
And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
5“The dead are in deep anguish,
those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6The realm of the dead is naked before God;
Destruction26:6 Hebrew Abaddon lies uncovered.
7He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;
he suspends the earth over nothing.
8He wraps up the waters in his clouds,
yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
9He covers the face of the full moon,
spreading his clouds over it.
10He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters
for a boundary between light and darkness.
11The pillars of the heavens quake,
aghast at his rebuke.
12By his power he churned up the sea;
by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
13By his breath the skies became fair;
his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
14And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
how faint the whisper we hear of him!
Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”
約伯的回答
1約伯回答說：
2「你真是幫了軟弱者的大忙！
救了臂膀無力的人！
3無智慧的人真多虧你的指教！
承蒙你的真知灼見！
4誰幫你想出這些點子？
誰的靈在藉著你發言？
5「陰魂和水族在水底戰抖，
6陰間在祂面前裸露，
冥府毫無遮掩。
7祂將北極鋪在空中，
將地懸在虛無中；
8祂將水捲在密雲中，
雲負重卻不裂開。
9祂遮蓋自己的寶座26·9 「寶座」或譯「滿月」。，
把雲彩鋪在上面。
10祂在海面上畫出地平線，
作為光明與黑暗的交界。
11祂的斥責使天柱震動驚駭，
12祂的能力使大海平靜，
祂運用智慧擊碎海怪。
13祂吹散天上的陰霾，
揮手刺穿逃跑的蛇。
14看啊，這不過是祂作為的一斑，
是我們聽到的少許回音！
誰能領悟祂的雷霆萬鈞？」
