约伯记 第31章 共42章
- 1"I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.
- 2For what is man's lot from God above, his heritage from the Almighty on high?
- 3Is it not ruin for the wicked, disaster for those who do wrong?
- 4Does he not see my ways and count my every step?
- 5"If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has hurried after deceit-
- 6let God weigh me in honest scales and he will know that I am blameless-
- 7if my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes, or if my hands have been defiled,
- 8then may others eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
- 9"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor's door,
- 10then may my wife grind another man's grain, and may other men sleep with her.
- 11For that would have been shameful, a sin to be judged.
- 12It is a fire that burns to Destruction ; it would have uprooted my harvest.
- 13"If I have denied justice to my menservants and maidservants when they had a grievance against me,
- 14what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when called to account?
- 15Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?
- 16"If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,
- 17if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless-
- 18but from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my birth I guided the widow-
- 19if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing, or a needy man without a garment,
- 20and his heart did not bless me for warming him with the fleece from my sheep,
- 21if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, knowing that I had influence in court,
- 22then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let it be broken off at the joint.
- 23For I dreaded destruction from God, and for fear of his splendor I could not do such things.
- 24"If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, 'You are my security,'
- 25if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained,
- 26if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
- 27so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage,
- 28then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high.
- 29"If I have rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him-
- 30I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against his life-
- 31if the men of my household have never said, 'Who has not had his fill of Job's meat?'-
- 32but no stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler-
- 33if I have concealed my sin as men do, by hiding my guilt in my heart
- 34because I so feared the crowd and so dreaded the contempt of the clans that I kept silent and would not go outside
- 35("Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense-let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing.
- 36Surely I would wear it on my shoulder, I would put it on like a crown.
- 37I would give him an account of my every step; like a prince I would approach him.)-
- 38"if my land cries out against me and all its furrows are wet with tears,
- 39if I have devoured its yield without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
- 40then let briers come up instead of wheat and weeds instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.