| 無人同情支援 |
| 17:1 | [NASB] "My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is {ready} for me. |
| 17:2 | [NASB] "Surely mockers are with me, And my eye gazes on their provocation. |
| 17:3 | [NASB] "Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself; Who is there that will be my guarantor? |
| 17:4 | [NASB] "For You have kept their heart from understanding, Therefore You will not exalt {them.} |
| 17:5 | [NASB] "He who informs against friends for a share {of the spoil,} The eyes of his children also will languish. |
| 17:6 | [NASB] "But He has made me a byword of the people, And I am one at whom men spit. |
| 17:7 | [NASB] "My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow. |
| 17:8 | [NASB] "The upright will be appalled at this, And the innocent will stir up himself against the godless. |
| 17:9 | [NASB] "Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his way, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger. |
| 17:10 | [NASB] "But come again all of you now, For I do not find a wise man among you. |
| 17:11 | [NASB] "My days are past, my plans are torn apart, {Even} the wishes of my heart. |
| 17:12 | [NASB] "They make night into day, {saying,} 'The light is near,' in the presence of darkness. |
| 17:13 | [NASB] "If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness; |
| 17:14 | [NASB] If I call to the pit, 'You are my father'; To the worm, 'my mother and my sister'; |
| 17:15 | [NASB] Where now is my hope? And who regards my hope? |
| 17:16 | [NASB] "Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the dust?" |
| 比勒達 再論惡人之禍 |
| 18:1 | [NASB] Then Bildad the Shuhite responded, |
| 18:2 | [NASB] "How long will you hunt for words? Show understanding and then we can talk. |
| 18:3 | [NASB] "Why are we regarded as beasts, As stupid in your eyes? |
| 18:4 | [NASB] "O you who tear yourself in your anger-- For your sake is the earth to be abandoned, Or the rock to be moved from its place? |
| 18:5 | [NASB] "Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out, And the flame of his fire gives no light. |
| 18:6 | [NASB] "The light in his tent is darkened, And his lamp goes out above him. |
| 18:7 | [NASB] "His vigorous stride is shortened, And his own scheme brings him down. |
| 18:8 | [NASB] "For he is thrown into the net by his own feet, And he steps on the webbing. |
| 18:9 | [NASB] "A snare seizes {him} by the heel, {And} a trap snaps shut on him. |
| 18:10 | [NASB] "A noose for him is hidden in the ground, And a trap for him on the path. |
| 18:11 | [NASB] "All around terrors frighten him, And harry him at every step. |
| 18:12 | [NASB] "His strength is famished, And calamity is ready at his side. |
| 18:13 | [NASB] "His skin is devoured by disease, The firstborn of death devours his limbs. |
| 18:14 | [NASB] "He is torn from the security of his tent, And they march him before the king of terrors. |
| 18:15 | [NASB] "There dwells in his tent nothing of his; Brimstone is scattered on his habitation. |
| 18:16 | [NASB] "His roots are dried below, And his branch is cut off above. |
| 18:17 | [NASB] "Memory of him perishes from the earth, And he has no name abroad. |
| 18:18 | [NASB] "He is driven from light into darkness, And chased from the inhabited world. |
| 18:19 | [NASB] "He has no offspring or posterity among his people, Nor any survivor where he sojourned. |
| 18:20 | [NASB] "Those in the west are appalled at his fate, And those in the east are seized with horror. |
| 18:21 | [NASB] "Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, And this is the place of him who does not know God." |
| 約伯說己災乃 神的攻擊 |
| 19:1 | [NASB] Then Job responded, |
| 19:2 | [NASB] "How long will you torment me And crush me with words? |
| 19:3 | [NASB] "These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me. |
| 19:4 | [NASB] "Even if I have truly erred, My error lodges with me. |
| 19:5 | [NASB] "If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me, |
| 19:6 | [NASB] Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me. |
| 19:7 | [NASB] "Behold, I cry, 'Violence!' but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice. |
| 19:8 | [NASB] "He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths. |
| 19:9 | [NASB] "He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head. |
| 19:10 | [NASB] "He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree. |
| 19:11 | [NASB] "He has also kindled His anger against me And considered me as His enemy. |
| 19:12 | [NASB] "His troops come together, And build up their way against me And camp around my tent. |
| 19:13 | [NASB] "He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. |
| 19:14 | [NASB] "My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me. |
| 19:15 | [NASB] "Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am a foreigner in their sight. |
| 19:16 | [NASB] "I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I have to implore him with my mouth. |
| 19:17 | [NASB] "My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers. |
| 19:18 | [NASB] "Even young children despise me; I rise up and they speak against me. |
| 19:19 | [NASB] "All my associates abhor me, And those I love have turned against me. |
| 19:20 | [NASB] "My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped {only} by the skin of my teeth. |
| 指望最後冤情得伸 |
| 19:21 | [NASB] "Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me. |
| 19:22 | [NASB] "Why do you persecute me as God {does,} And are not satisfied with my flesh? |
| 19:23 | [NASB] "Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! |
| 19:24 | [NASB] "That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever! |
| 19:25 | [NASB] "As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth. |
| 19:26 | [NASB] "Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God; |
| 19:27 | [NASB] Whom I myself shall behold, And whom my eyes will see and not another. My heart faints within me! |
| 19:28 | [NASB] "If you say, 'How shall we persecute him?' And 'What pretext for a case against him can we find?' |
| 19:29 | [NASB] "{Then} be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath {brings} the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment." |
| 瑣法言惡人的福樂不持久 |
| 20:1 | [NASB] Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, |
| 20:2 | [NASB] "Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me respond, Even because of my inward agitation. |
| 20:3 | [NASB] "I listened to the reproof which insults me, And the spirit of my understanding makes me answer. |
| 20:4 | [NASB] "Do you know this from of old, From the establishment of man on earth, |
| 20:5 | [NASB] That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless momentary? |
| 20:6 | [NASB] "Though his loftiness reaches the heavens, And his head touches the clouds, |
| 20:7 | [NASB] He perishes forever like his refuse; Those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?' |
| 20:8 | [NASB] "He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him; Even like a vision of the night he is chased away. |
| 20:9 | [NASB] "The eye which saw him sees him no longer, And his place no longer beholds him. |
| 20:10 | [NASB] "His sons favor the poor, And his hands give back his wealth. |
| 20:11 | [NASB] "His bones are full of his youthful vigor, But it lies down with him in the dust. |
| 20:12 | [NASB] "Though evil is sweet in his mouth {And} he hides it under his tongue, |
| 20:13 | [NASB] {Though} he desires it and will not let it go, But holds it in his mouth, |
| 20:14 | [NASB] {Yet} his food in his stomach is changed To the venom of cobras within him. |
| 20:15 | [NASB] "He swallows riches, But will vomit them up; God will expel them from his belly. |
| 20:16 | [NASB] "He sucks the poison of cobras; The viper's tongue slays him. |
| 20:17 | [NASB] "He does not look at the streams, The rivers flowing with honey and curds. |
| 20:18 | [NASB] "He returns what he has attained And cannot swallow {it;} As to the riches of his trading, He cannot even enjoy {them.} |
| 20:19 | [NASB] "For he has oppressed {and} forsaken the poor; He has seized a house which he has not built. |
| 20:20 | [NASB] "Because he knew no quiet within him, He does not retain anything he desires. |
| 20:21 | [NASB] "Nothing remains for him to devour, Therefore his prosperity does not endure. |
| 20:22 | [NASB] "In the fullness of his plenty he will be cramped; The hand of everyone who suffers will come {against} him. |
| 20:23 | [NASB] "When he fills his belly, {God} will send His fierce anger on him And will rain {it} on him while he is eating. |
| 20:24 | [NASB] "He may flee from the iron weapon, {But} the bronze bow will pierce him. |
| 20:25 | [NASB] "It is drawn forth and comes out of his back, Even the glittering point from his gall. Terrors come upon him, |
| 20:26 | [NASB] Complete darkness is held in reserve for his treasures, And unfanned fire will devour him; It will consume the survivor in his tent. |
| 20:27 | [NASB] "The heavens will reveal his iniquity, And the earth will rise up against him. |
| 20:28 | [NASB] "The increase of his house will depart; {His possessions} will flow away in the day of His anger. |
| 20:29 | [NASB] "This is the wicked man's portion from God, Even the heritage decreed to him by God." |
