| | 1 | 提幔人以利法回答说，
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
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| | 2 | 人若想与你说话，你就厌烦吗？但谁能忍住不说呢？
"If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
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| | 3 | 你素来教导许多的人，又坚固软弱的手。
Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
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| | 4 | 你的言语曾扶助那将要跌倒的人。你又使软弱的膝稳固。
Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
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| | 5 | 但现在祸患临到你，你就昏迷，挨近你，你便惊惶。
But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
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| | 6 | 你的倚靠不是在你敬畏神吗？你的盼望不是在你行事纯正吗？
Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
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| | 7 | 请你追想，无辜的人有谁灭亡。正直的人在何处剪除。
"Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?
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| | 8 | 按我所见，耕罪孽，种毒害的人，都照样收割。
As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
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| | 9 | 神一出气，他们就灭亡。神一发怒，他们就消没。
At the breath of God they are destroyed; at the blast of his anger they perish.
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| | 10 | 狮子的吼叫，和猛狮的声音，尽都止息。少壮狮子的牙齿，也都敲掉。
The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
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| | 11 | 老狮子因绝食而死。母狮之子也都离散。
The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
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| | 12 | 我暗暗地得了默示。我耳朵也听其细微的声音。
"A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.
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| | 13 | 在思念夜中，异象之间，世人沉睡的时候。
Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
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| | 14 | 恐惧，战兢临到我身，使我百骨打战。
fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.
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| | 15 | 有灵从我面前经过，我身上的毫毛直立。
A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.
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| | 16 | 那灵停住，我却不能辨其形状。有影像在我眼前。我在静默中听见有声音说，
It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:
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| | 17 | 必死的人岂能比神公义吗？人岂能比造他的主洁净吗？
'Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker?
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| | 18 | 主不信靠他的臣仆，并且指他的使者为愚昧。
If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
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| | 19 | 何况那住在土房，根基在尘土里，被蠹虫所毁坏的人呢？
how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!
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| | 20 | 早晚之间，就被毁灭，永归无有，无人理会。
Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.
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| | 21 | 他帐棚的绳索岂不从中抽出来呢？他死，且是无智慧而死。
Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?'
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