| | 1 | 那时，耶和华从旋风中回答约伯说，
Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said:
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| | 2 | 谁用无知的言语，使我的旨意暗昧不明。
"Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge?
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| | 3 | 你要如勇士束腰。我问你，你可以指示我。
Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.
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| | 4 | 我立大地根基的时候，你在哪里呢？你若有聪明，只管说吧。
"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
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| | 5 | 你若晓得就说，是谁定地的尺度？是谁把准绳拉在其上？
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
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| | 6 | 地的根基安置在何处？地的角石是谁安放的？
On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone--
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| | 7 | 那时晨星一同歌唱，神的众子也都欢呼。
while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?
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| | 8 | 海水冲出，如出胎胞，那时谁将它关闭呢？
"Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
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| | 9 | 是我用云彩当海的衣服，用幽暗当包裹它的布，
when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,
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| | 10 | 为它定界限，又安门和闩，
when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,
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| | 11 | 说，你只可到这里，不可越过。你狂傲的浪要到此止住。
when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt'?
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| | 12 | 你自生以来，曾命定晨光，使清晨的日光知道本位。
"Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place,
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| | 13 | 叫这光普照地的四极，将恶人从其中驱逐出来吗？
that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?
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| | 14 | 因这光，地面改变如泥上印印，万物出现如衣服一样。
The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment.
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| | 15 | 亮光不照恶人，强横的膀臂也必折断。
The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.
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| | 16 | 你曾进到海源，或在深渊的隐密处行走吗？
"Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?
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| | 17 | 死亡的门曾向你显露吗？死荫的门你曾见过吗？
Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
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| | 18 | 地的广大你能明透吗？你若全知道，只管说吧。
Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.
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| | 19 | 光明的居所从何而至？黑暗的本位在于何处？
"What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside?
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| | 20 | 你能带到本境，能看明其室之路吗？
Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings?
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| | 21 | 你总知道，因为你早已生在世上，你日子的数目也多。
Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!
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| | 22 | 你曾进入雪库。或见过雹仓吗？
"Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail,
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| | 23 | 这雪雹乃是我为降灾，并打仗和争战的日子所预备的。
which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle?
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| | 24 | 光亮从何路分开？东风从何路分散遍地？
What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?
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| | 25 | 谁为雨水分道？谁为雷电开路？
Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,
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| | 26 | 使雨降在无人之地，无人居住的旷野。
to water a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it,
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| | 27 | 使荒废凄凉之地得以丰足，青草得以发生。
to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?
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| | 28 | 雨有父吗？露水珠是谁生的呢？
Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?
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| | 29 | 冰出于谁的胎？天上的霜是谁生的呢？
From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens
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| | 30 | 诸水坚硬（或作隐藏）如石头，深渊之面凝结成冰。
when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?
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| | 31 | 你能系住昴星的结吗？能解开参星的带吗？
"Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?
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| | 32 | 你能按时领出十二宫吗？能引导北斗和随它的众星吗（星原文作子）？
Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs?
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| | 33 | 你知道天的定例吗？能使地归在天的权下吗？
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God'sdominion over the earth?
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| | 34 | 你能向云彩扬起声来，使倾盆的雨遮盖你吗？
"Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?
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| | 35 | 你能发出闪电，叫它行去，使它对你说，我们在这里。
Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'?
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| | 36 | 谁将智慧放在怀中？谁将聪明赐于心内？
Who endowed the heart with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind?
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| | 37 | 谁能用智慧数算云彩呢？尘土聚集成团，土块紧紧结连。那时，谁能倾倒天上的瓶呢？
Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
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when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together?
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| | 39 | 母狮子在洞中蹲伏，少壮狮子在隐密处埋伏。你能为它们抓取食物，使它们饱足吗？
"Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions
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when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket?
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| | 41 | 乌鸦之雏因无食物飞来飞去，哀告神。那时，谁为它预备食物呢？
Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
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