- 36:1 And Elihu added this and said,
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以利户又接着说，
- 36:2 Bear with me a little, and I will show you; For there is more to say for God.
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你再容我片时，我就指示你；因我还有话为神说。
- 36:3 I will bring my knowledge from afar And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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我要将所知道的从远处引来，将公义归给造我的主。
- 36:4 For truly my words are not false; One perfect in knowledge is with you.
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我的言语真不虚谎；有一位知识全备的与你同在。
- 36:5 Indeed, God is mighty and does not despise; He is mighty in strength of understanding.
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看哪，神有大能，并不藐视人；祂大有智慧的能力。
- 36:6 He does not preserve the wicked man alive, But gives justice to the afflicted.
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祂不容恶人存活，却为困苦人伸冤。
- 36:7 He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; And with kings on the throne, He sets them forever, and they are exalted.
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祂的眼目时常看顾义人，祂使他们永远和君王同坐宝座，他们就得着高举。
- 36:8 And if they are bound in fetters, If they are caught in the cords of affliction,
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他们若被锁炼捆住，被苦难的绳索缠住，
- 36:9 He shows them their work And their transgressions, that they have acted arrogantly.
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祂就把他们的作为和过犯指示他们，叫他们知道自己行动骄傲。
- 36:10 He also opens their ear to instruction And commands that they return from iniquity.
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祂也开通他们的耳朵得受教训，吩咐他们离开罪孽转回。
- 36:11 If they hear and serve Him, They will spend their days in prosperity And their years in pleasantness.
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他们若听从事奉祂，就必度日亨通，历年福乐。
- 36:12 But if they do not hear, they will pass away by the sword And die without knowledge.
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若不听从，就要被刀杀灭，无知无识而死。
- 36:13 But those who are profane in heart lay up anger; They do not cry for help when He binds them.
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但那心中不虔敬的人，积蓄怒气；神捆绑他们时，他们竟不呼救。
- 36:14 They die in youth, And their life ends among the most defiled.
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他们必在青年时死亡，与极污秽的人一样丧命。
- 36:15 He rescues the afflicted by their affliction And opens their ear through oppression.
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神借着困苦人所受的困苦救拔他们，借着他们所受的欺压开通他们的耳朵。
- 36:16 Indeed He allures you from the jaws of distress Into a spacious place, where there is no constraint; And what is upon your table is full of fatness.
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神也必引你出离患难的虎口，进入宽阔不狭窄之地；摆在你席上的，必满有肥甘。
- 36:17 But you are filled with the judgment of the wicked; Judgment and litigation have taken hold of you.
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但你满有恶人所当受的审判；判断和刑罚抓住了你。
- 36:18 Beware lest wrath allures you into scoffing, And do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.
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不可容忿怒触动你侮慢神，也不可因赎价大就偏行。
- 36:19 Will your cry keep you from being in distress, Or all the forces of your strength?
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你的呼救，或是你一切的势力，能叫你不受患难么？
- 36:20 Do not long for the night, When people are taken from their place.
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不要切慕黑夜，就是众民在本处被除灭的时候。
- 36:21 Take heed; do not turn toward iniquity; For you have chosen this rather than affliction.
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你要谨慎，不可转向罪孽；因你选择罪孽，过于选择苦难。
- 36:22 Indeed, God is exalted in His power: Who is a teacher like Him?
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看哪，神因自己的能力被高举：教训人的，有谁像祂？
- 36:23 Who has appointed His way for Him? And who says, You have done wrong?
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谁派定祂的道路？谁说，你所行的不义？
- 36:24 Remember to magnify His work, Of which men sing.
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你要记得称赞祂所行的为大，就是人所歌颂的。
- 36:25 All mankind has gazed on it; Man beholds it from afar.
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祂所行的，万人都看见；世人都从远处观看。
- 36:26 Indeed, God is great, and we do not know Him; The number of His years we also cannot search out.
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看哪，神为大，我们不能知晓；祂的年数不能测度。
- 36:27 For He draws up the drops of water Which distill into rain from His mist,
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祂吸取水点，这水点从祂的云雾中滴下成雨；
- 36:28 Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly.
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云霓将雨落下，沛然降与世人。
- 36:29 Can they indeed understand the spreading of the clouds, The thunderings of His pavilion?
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人真能明白云彩如何铺张，神的帷幕如何发出雷声么？
- 36:30 Indeed, He scatters His lightning around Him And covers the roots of the sea.
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祂将闪电布散在自己四围，又遮覆海底。
- 36:31 For by these He judges the peoples; He gives food in abundance.
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祂用这些审判众民，且赐丰富的粮食。
- 36:32 He fills His hands with lightning And commands it to strike the mark.
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祂以闪电遮手，命闪电击中目标。
- 36:33 Its noise tells of Him; The cattle as well tell concerning Him who is coming.
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所发的雷声将祂指明；牲畜也指明祂要来了。