¹约伯认罪

¹And Job answereth Jehovah and saith: —

²“我知道你万事都能作，你的旨意是不能拦阻的。

²Thou hast known that [for] all things Thou art able, And not withheld from Thee is [any] device:

³这以无知无识的言语使　神的旨意模糊不清的是谁呢？所以我说了我所不明白的；这些事太奇妙，是我不晓得的。

³`Who [is] this, hiding counsel without knowledge?` Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

⁴求你听我，我要说话；我要问你，你要告诉我。

⁴`Hear, I pray thee, and I — I do speak, I ask thee, and cause thou me to know.`

⁵我从前只是风闻有你，但现在亲眼看见你。

⁵By the hearing of the ear I heard Thee, And now mine eye hath seen Thee.

⁶因此我厌恶自己，在尘土和灰烬中懊悔。”

⁶Therefore do I loathe [it], And I have repented on dust and ashes.

⁷耶和华责约伯三友耶和华对约伯说了这些话以后，就对提幔人以利法说：“我要向你和你的两个朋友生气，因为你们讲论我，不如我的仆人约伯说的对。

⁷And it cometh to pass after Jehovah`s speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

⁸现在你们要为自己取七头公牛、七只公羊，到我的仆人约伯那里去，为你们献上燔祭，我的仆人约伯就替你们祷告；我悦纳他的祷告，就不按照你们的愚昧待你们。你们讲论我，不如我的仆人约伯说的对。”

⁸And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

⁹于是提幔人以利法、书亚人比勒达、拿玛人琐法，照着耶和华吩咐他们的去行，耶和华就悦纳约伯的祷告。

⁹And they go — Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite — and do as Jehovah hath spoken unto them; and Jehovah doth accept the face of Job.

¹⁰加倍赐福约伯约伯替他的朋友祷告，耶和华就恢复约伯原来的景况，还照约伯以前所有的一切加倍赐给他。

¹⁰And Jehovah hath turned [to] the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends, and Jehovah doth add [to] all that Job hath — to double.

¹¹约伯的众兄弟姊妹和以前认识的人都来见他，在他家里与他一同吃饭，又因耶和华降予他的一切灾祸都对他表同情，安慰他，每人送他一块银子和一个金环。

¹¹And come unto him do all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they eat bread with him in his house, and bemoan him, and comfort him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him, and they gave to him each one kesitah, and each one ring of gold.

¹²这样，耶和华后来赐给约伯的福比先前更多：他有一万四千只羊、六千匹骆驼、一千对牛、一千头母驴。

¹²And Jehovah hath blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and he hath fourteen thousand of a flock, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

¹³他也有七个儿子和三个女儿。

¹³And he hath seven sons and three daughters;

¹⁴他给长女起名叫耶米玛，次女名叫基洗亚，三女名叫基连．哈朴。

¹⁴and he calleth the name of the one Jemima, and the name of the second Kezia, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch.

¹⁵在那全地中，找不到像约伯女儿那么美貌的妇女。她们的父亲在她们兄弟中间把产业分给她们。

¹⁵And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.

¹⁶约伯逝世此后，约伯又活了一百四十年，得见他的儿孙到四代。

¹⁶And Job liveth after this a hundred and forty years, and seeth his sons, and his sons` sons, four generations;

¹⁷这样，约伯年纪老迈，寿终而死。

¹⁷and Job dieth, aged and satisfied [with] days.