约伯记 第27章 共42章
- 1And Job continued his discourse:
- 2"As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made me taste bitterness of soul,
- 3as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils,
- 4my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will utter no deceit.
- 5I will never admit you are in the right; till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
- 6I will maintain my righteousness and never let go of it; my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.
- 7"May my enemies be like the wicked, my adversaries like the unjust!
- 8For what hope has the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- 9Does God listen to his cry when distress comes upon him?
- 10Will he find delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
- 11"I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.
- 12You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
- 13"Here is the fate God allots to the wicked, the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
- 14However many his children, their fate is the sword; his offspring will never have enough to eat.
- 15The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.
- 16Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,
- 17what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.
- 18The house he builds is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.
- 19He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
- 20Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
- 21The east wind carries him off, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
- 22It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
- 23It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place.