Job

拿瑪人瑣法回答說：

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

我心中急躁，所以我的思念叫我回答。

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for {this} I make haste. {I make...: Heb. my haste is in me}

我已聽見那羞辱我，責備我的話；我的悟性叫我回答。

I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

你豈不知亙古以來，自從人生在地，

Knowest thou {not} this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

惡人誇勝是暫時的，不敬虔人的喜樂不過轉眼之間麼？

That the triumphing of the wicked {is} short, and the joy of the hypocrite {but} for a moment? {short: Heb. from near}

他的尊榮雖達到天上，頭雖頂到雲中，

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; {clouds: Heb. cloud}

他終必滅亡，像自己的糞一樣；素來見他的人要說：他在哪裡呢？

{Yet} he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where {is} he?

他必飛去如夢，不再尋見，速被趕去，如夜間的異象。

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

親眼見過他的，必不再見他；他的本處也再見不著他。

The eye also {which} saw him shall {see him} no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

他的兒女要求窮人的恩；他的手要賠還不義之財。

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. {His children...: or, The poor shall oppress his children}

他的骨頭雖然有青年之力，卻要和他一同躺臥在塵土中。

His bones are full {of the sin} of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

他口內雖以惡為甘甜，藏在舌頭底下，

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, {though} he hide it under his tongue;

愛戀不捨，含在口中；

{Though} he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: {within...: Heb. in the midst of his palate}

他的食物在肚裡卻要化為酸，在他裡面成為虺蛇的惡毒。

{Yet} his meat in his bowels is turned, {it is} the gall of asps within him.

他吞了財寶，還要吐出；神要從他腹中掏出來。

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

他必吸飲虺蛇的毒氣；蝮蛇的舌頭也必殺他。

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

流奶與蜜之河，他不得再見。

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. {the floods...: or, streaming brooks}

他勞碌得來的要賠還，不得享用（原文是吞下）；不能照所得的財貨歡樂。

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow {it} down: according to {his} substance {shall} the restitution {be}, and he shall not rejoice {therein}. {his...: Heb. the substance of his exchange}

他欺壓窮人，且又離棄；強取非自己所蓋的房屋（或譯：強取房屋不得再建造）。

Because he hath oppressed {and} hath forsaken the poor; {because} he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; {oppressed: Heb. crushed}

他因貪而無厭，所喜悅的連一樣也不能保守。

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. {feel: Heb. know}

其餘的沒有一樣他不吞滅，所以他的福樂不能長久。

There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. {none...: or, be none left for his meat}

他在滿足有餘的時候，必到狹窄的地步；凡受苦楚的人都必加手在他身上。

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. {wicked: or, troublesome}

他正要充滿肚腹的時候，神必將猛烈的忿怒降在他身上；正在他吃飯的時候，要將這忿怒像雨降在他身上。

{When} he is about to fill his belly, {God} shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain {it} upon him while he is eating.

他要躲避鐵器；銅弓的箭要將他射透。

He shall flee from the iron weapon, {and} the bow of steel shall strike him through.

他把箭一抽，就從他身上出來；發光的箭頭從他膽中出來，有驚惶臨在他身上。

It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors {are} upon him.

他的財寶歸於黑暗；人所不吹的火要把他燒滅，要把他帳棚中所剩下的燒燬。

All darkness {shall be} hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

天要顯明他的罪孽；地要興起攻擊他。

The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

他的家產必然過去；神發怒的日子，他的貨物都要消滅。

The increase of his house shall depart, {and his goods} shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

這是惡人從神所得的分，是神為他所定的產業。

This {is} the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. {appointed...: Heb. of his decree from God}