- 15:1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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提幔人以利法回答说,
- 15:2 Should a wise man answer with the knowledge of wind, And should he fill his belly with the east wind?
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智慧人岂可用虚空如风的知识回答,用东风充满肚腹呢?
- 15:3 Should he argue with useless talk And with words by which he cannot avail?
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他岂可用无益的话,和无济于事的言语理论呢?
- 15:4 Indeed you do away with the fear of God And restrain meditation before God.
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你实在是废弃对神的敬畏,阻止在神面前的默想。
- 15:5 For your iniquity instructs your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
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你的罪孽指教你的口,你选用诡诈人的舌头。
- 15:6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; And your own lips testify against you.
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你自己的口定你有罪,并非是我;你自己的嘴唇见证你的不是。
- 15:7 Are you the first man born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
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你岂是头一个生下来的人么?你出生在诸山之先么?
- 15:8 Did you listen in on the secret council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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你曾听见神的密旨么?你还将智慧独归己有么?
- 15:9 What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not with us?
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你知道什么,是我们不知道的呢?你明白什么,是我们不明白的呢?
- 15:10 Both the grayheaded and the aged are among us, Older than your father.
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我们中间有白发的,也有年纪老迈的,岁数比你父亲还大。
- 15:11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, Or the word spoken gently to you?
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神的安慰,和祂对你所说温和的话,你以为太小么?
- 15:12 Why does your heart take you away? And why do your eyes flash,
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你的心为何将你夺去?你的眼为何冒出火星,
- 15:13 That you turn your spirit against God And let words go forth from your mouth?
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使你的灵转而反对神,也任你的口发出这样的言语?
- 15:14 What is man, that he can be clean, Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
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人是什么,竟能成为洁净的呢?妇人所生的是什么,竟能成为义的呢?
- 15:15 Indeed, He puts no trust in His holy ones; Even the heavens are not clean in His eyes.
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看哪,神不信靠祂的众圣者;在祂眼前天也不洁净。
- 15:16 How much less one who is abominable and corrupt! How much less a man who drinks wrong like water!
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何况那可憎败坏,喝不义如水的人呢!
- 15:17 I will tell you; hear me; And what I have seen, that will I recount,
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我指示你,你要听我;我所看见的,我要述说,
- 15:18 What wise men have declared, And have not hidden, from their fathers;
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就是智慧人从列祖所受,传说而不隐瞒的;
- 15:19 To whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed in their midst:
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这地惟独赐给他们的列祖,并没有外人从他们中间经过;
- 15:20 For all his days the wicked man travails in pain, And numbered years are stored up for the ruthless man.
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恶人一生之日,劬劳痛苦;为强暴人积存的年日,都数算过了。
- 15:21 The sound of terrors is in his ears; While he is at peace, the destroyer will come upon him.
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惊吓的声音常在他耳中;在平安时,抢夺的必临到他。
- 15:22 He does not believe that he will return from the darkness, And he is spied out for the sword.
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他不信自己能从黑暗中转回;有刀剑窥伺等着他。
- 15:23 He wanders for bread-where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.
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他飘流在外求食,说,那里有食物呢?他知道黑暗的日子在他手边预备好了。
- 15:24 Distress and straits terrify him; They prevail against him, like a king prepared for the attack;
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急难窘困叫他害怕,而且胜了他,好像君王预备好上阵攻击一样;
- 15:25 Because he stretched out his hand against God, And against the Almighty he acted mightily,
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因为他伸手攻击神,逞强攻击全能者,
- 15:26 Running against Him with a stiff neck, With the thick bosses of his shield;
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挺着颈项,用盾牌的厚凸面,向全能者直闯;
- 15:27 Because he covered his face with his fatness And gathered fat upon his loins;
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因为他的脸蒙上自己的脂油,腰上积满肥肉;
- 15:28 And he dwelt in desolated cities, In houses which should not have been inhabited, Which were appointed to become heaps.
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他住在荒凉的城邑,住在人不该居住、注定将成乱堆的房屋。
- 15:29 He will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure; Nor will his produce bend down to the earth.
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他不得富足,财物不得常存,出产也不累垂于地。
- 15:30 He will not go away from darkness; The flame will dry up his shoots, And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
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他不得离开黑暗;火焰要将他的嫩枝烧干,他要因神口中的气逝去。
- 15:31 Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity will be his recompense.
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愿他不信靠虚假,欺哄自己;因虚假必成为他的报应。
- 15:32 It will be fully paid before his day, And his branch will not be flourishing.
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他的日期未到之先,这事必成就,他的枝子不得青茂。
- 15:33 He will shake off his unripe grapes like a vine, And he will cast off his blossom like an olive tree.
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他必像葡萄树未熟的葡萄被打下,又像橄榄树刚开的花被摇落。
- 15:34 For the company of the profane will be barren, And fire will devour the tents of bribery.
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因为不虔敬之辈必无生育,受贿赂之人的帐棚必被火烧;
- 15:35 They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepares deceit.
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他们所怀的是毒害,所生的是罪孽,心里所预备的是诡诈。