全新四年樂活讀經
W5 2013-03-01 (約伯記4)
經文:
4:1 提幔人以利法回答說：
4:2 人若想與你說話，你就厭煩嗎？但誰能忍住不說呢？
4:3 你素來教導許多的人，又堅固軟弱的手。
4:4 你的言語曾扶助那將要跌倒的人；你又使軟弱的膝穩固。
4:5 但現在禍患臨到你，你就昏迷，挨近你，你便驚惶。
4:6 你的倚靠不是在你敬畏 神嗎？你的盼望不是在你行事純正嗎？
4:7 請你追想：無辜的人有誰滅亡？正直的人在何處剪除？
4:8 按我所見，耕罪孽、種毒害的人都照樣收割。
4:9 神一出氣，他們就滅亡； 神一發怒，他們就消沒。
4:10 獅子的吼叫和猛獅的聲音盡都止息；少壯獅子的牙齒也都敲掉。
4:11 老獅子因絕食而死；母獅之子也都離散。
默想: 提幔人以利法對約伯的表現感到相當失望，他認為約伯不了解自己為什麼受苦難，還敢大言不慚地怨東怨西。他認為苦難最主要的原因，就是「因果報應」一個無辜的人，怎麼可能會滅亡呢？照他所見與經驗的理解，「耕罪孽、種毒害的人都照樣收割」。所以約伯之所以會受到這樣的苦難，一定是在他的某些地方，行為不完全，所以上帝的刑罰才會臨到，他勸約伯要承認上帝的公義、明白上帝的聖潔。承認自己的不完全，我們不過是必死的人，在上帝的面前如何能夠算為義呢？
承認吧約伯！承認你自己是一個有罪的人，你一定有什麼地方得罪神，所以才有這些災難，你受上帝的這些處罰是應該的。
題目: 提幔人以利法如何詮釋約伯的苦難呢？
4:1 提幔人以利法回答說：
Then Eli'phaz the Te'manite answered:
4:2 人若想與你說話，你就厭煩嗎？但誰能忍住不說呢？
"If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? Yet who can keep from speaking?
4:3 你素來教導許多的人，又堅固軟弱的手。
Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
4:4 你的言語曾扶助那將要跌倒的人；你又使軟弱的膝穩固。
Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
4:5 但現在禍患臨到你，你就昏迷，挨近你，你便驚惶。
But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
4:6 你的倚靠不是在你敬畏 神嗎？你的盼望不是在你行事純正嗎？
Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
4:7 請你追想：無辜的人有誰滅亡？正直的人在何處剪除？
"Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
4:8 按我所見，耕罪孽、種毒害的人都照樣收割。
As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
4:9 神一出氣，他們就滅亡； 神一發怒，他們就消沒。
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
4:10 獅子的吼叫和猛獅的聲音盡都止息；少壯獅子的牙齒也都敲掉。
The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
4:11 老獅子因絕食而死；母獅之子也都離散。
The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
4:12 我暗暗地得了默示；我耳朵也聽其細微的聲音。
"Now a word was brought to me stealthily, my ear received the whisper of it.
4:13 在思念夜中、異象之間，世人沉睡的時候，
Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
4:14 恐懼、戰兢臨到我身，使我百骨打戰。
dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
4:15 有靈從我面前經過，我身上的毫毛直立。
A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
4:16 那靈停住，我卻不能辨其形狀；有影像在我眼前。我在靜默中聽見有聲音說：
It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:
4:17 必死的人豈能比 神公義嗎？人豈能比造他的主潔淨嗎？
`Can mortal man be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
4:18 主不信靠他的臣僕，並且指他的使者為愚昧；
Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;
4:19 何況那住在土房、根基在塵土裡、被蠹蟲所毀壞的人呢？
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.
4:20 早晚之間，就被毀滅，永歸無有，無人理會。
Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
4:21 他帳棚的繩索豈不從中抽出來呢？他死，且是無智慧而死。
If their tent-cord is plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?'
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