| | 1 | 书亚人比勒达回答说，
Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
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| | 2 | 这些话你要说到几时？口中的言语如狂风要到几时呢？
"How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind.
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| | 3 | 神岂能偏离公平？全能者岂能偏离公义？
Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
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| | 4 | 或者你的儿女得罪了他，他使他们受报应。
When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.
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| | 5 | 你若殷勤地寻求神，向全能者恳求。
But if you will look to God and plead with the Almighty,
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| | 6 | 你若清洁正直，他必定为你起来，使你公义的居所兴旺。
if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your rightful place.
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| | 7 | 你起初虽然微小，终久必甚发达。
Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.
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| | 8 | 请你考问前代，追念他们的列祖所查究的。
"Ask the former generations and find out what their fathers learned,
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| | 9 | （我们不过从昨日才有，一无所知。我们在世的日子好像影儿。）
for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.
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| | 10 | 他们岂不指教你，告诉你，从心里发出言语来呢？
Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?
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| | 11 | 蒲草没有泥，岂能发长？芦荻没有水，岂能生发？
Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?
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| | 12 | 尚青的时候，还没有割下，比百样的草先枯槁。
While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass.
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| | 13 | 凡忘记神的人，景况也是这样。不虔敬人的指望要灭没。
Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so perishes the hope of the godless.
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| | 14 | 他所仰赖的必折断，他所倚靠的是蜘蛛网。
What he trusts in is fragile; what he relies on is a spider's web.
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| | 15 | 他要倚靠房屋，房屋却站立不住。他要抓住房屋，房屋却不能存留。
He leans on his web, but it gives way; he clings to it, but it does not hold.
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| | 16 | 他在日光之下发青，蔓子爬满了园子。
He is like a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden;
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| | 17 | 他的根盘绕石堆，扎入石地。
it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks and looks for a place among the stones.
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| | 18 | 他若从本地被拔出，那地就不认识他，说，我没有见过你。
But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, 'I never saw you.'
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| | 19 | 看哪，这就是他道中之乐。以后必另有人从地而生。
Surely its life withers away, and from the soil other plants grow.
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| | 20 | 神必不丢弃完全人，也不扶助邪恶人。
"Surely God does not reject a blameless man or strengthen the hands of evildoers.
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| | 21 | 他还要以喜笑充满你的口，以欢呼充满你的嘴。
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
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| | 22 | 恨恶你的要披戴惭愧。恶人的帐棚，必归于无有。
Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more."
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