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Job 8

Latin original · 22 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

📖 This chapter exists in 3 other originals — side by side (Hebrew Old Testament, Septuagint, Ge'ez Bible)

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8:1

Respondens autem Baldad Suhites, dixit :

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

書亞人比勒達回答說：

8:2

Usquequo loqueris talia, et spiritus multiplex sermones oris tui ?

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

這些話你要說到幾時？口中的言語如狂風要到幾時呢？

8:3

Numquid Deus supplantat judicium ? aut Omnipotens subvertit quod justum est ?

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

上帝豈能偏離公平？全能者豈能偏離公義？

8:4

Etiam si filii tui peccaverunt ei, et dimisit eos in manu iniquitatis suae :

If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

或者你的兒女得罪了他；他使他們受報應。

8:5

tu tamen si diluculo consurrexeris ad Deum, et Omnipotentem fueris deprecatus ;

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

你若殷勤地尋求上帝，向全能者懇求；

8:6

si mundus et rectus incesseris : statim evigilabit ad te, et pacatum reddet habitaculum justitiae tuae,

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

你若清潔正直，他必定為你起來，使你公義的居所興旺。

8:7

in tantum ut si priora tua fuerint parva, et novissima tua multiplicentur nimis.

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

你起初雖然微小，終久必甚發達。

8:8

Interroga enim generationem pristinam, et diligenter investiga patrum memoriam

“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

請你考問前代，追念他們的列祖所查究的。

8:9

(hesterni quippe sumus, et ignoramus, quoniam sicut umbra dies nostri sunt super terram),

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

我們不過從昨日才有，一無所知；我們在世的日子好像影兒。