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Job 8

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

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8:1

ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Βαλδαδ ὁ Σαυχίτης λέγει

Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and says:

書亞人比勒達回答說：

8:2

μέχρι τίνος λαλήσεις ταῦτα πνεῦμα πολυρῆμον τοῦ στόματός σου

"How long will you speak these things? The breath of your mouth is full of words.

你說這些話要到幾時呢？你口中的氣息何等多言！

8:3

μὴ ὁ κύριος ἀδικήσει κρίνων ἢ ὁ τὰ πάντα ποιήσας ταράξει τὸ δίκαιον

Will the Lord be unjust in judging, or will he who made all things pervert what is just?

主審判豈會行不義嗎？那造萬物的豈會攪亂公義嗎？

8:4

εἰ οἱ υἱοί σου ἥμαρτον ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ἀπέστειλεν ἐν χειρὶ ἀνομίας αὐτῶν

If your sons sinned before him, he sent them away into the hand of their own lawlessness.

你的兒子若在祂面前犯了罪，祂就把他們交在他們自己不法的手中。

8:5

σὺ δὲ ὄρθριζε πρὸς κύριον παντοκράτορα δεόμενος

But rise early to the Lord Almighty, making supplication.

但你要清早起來，向全能的主懇求。

8:6

εἰ καθαρὸς εἶ καὶ ἀληθινός δεήσεως ἐπακούσεταί σου ἀποκαταστήσει δέ σοι δίαιταν δικαιοσύνης

If you are pure and true, he will hearken to your supplication, and will restore to you a dwelling of righteousness.

你若是清潔真誠的，祂必垂聽你的祈求，又使你公義的居所復原。

8:7

ἔσται οὖν τὰ μὲν πρῶτά σου ὀλίγα τὰ δὲ ἔσχατά σου ἀμύθητα

Then your beginning will be small, but your latter end will be beyond telling.

這樣，你起初雖然微小，你的結局卻必大得無可言喻。

8:8

ἐπερώτησον γὰρ γενεὰν πρώτην ἐξιχνίασον δὲ κατὰ γένος πατέρων

For inquire of the former generation, and search out according to the race of the fathers.

你要請教前代的人，按著列祖的家族查考。

8:9

χθιζοὶ γάρ ἐσμεν καὶ οὐκ οἴδαμεν σκιὰ γάρ ἐστιν ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὁ βίος

For we are of yesterday and know nothing, for our life upon the earth is a shadow.

我們不過是昨日才有的，毫無所知；我們在地上的年日不過是影兒。