¹比勒达首次发言

¹And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —

²“这些话你要说到几时，你口中的言语像狂风到几时呢？

²Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind — sayings of thy mouth?

³　神怎会歪曲公平？全能者怎会屈枉公义？

³Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

⁴你的儿女若得罪了他，他就因他们的过犯撇弃他们。

⁴If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,

⁵你若殷勤寻求　神，向全能者恳求；

⁵If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

⁶你若又洁净又正直，他就必为你奋起，复兴你公义的居所。

⁶If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

⁷你起初虽然微小，到后来必定非常兴旺。

⁷And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.

⁸离开　神毫无倚靠请你查问前几代，留意他们列祖所查究的。

⁸For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

⁹我们只是昨天才有的，所以一无所知；我们在世的日子不过是影儿。

⁹(For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)

¹⁰难道他们不指教你，从心里发出言语来吗？

¹⁰Do they not shew thee — speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?

¹¹蒲草没有泥，怎能生长？芦苇没有水，怎能长大呢？

¹¹`Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?

¹²尚青还没有割下来的时候，就比百草先枯槁。

¹²While it [is] in its budding — uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth.

¹³忘记　神的，他们的末路也是这样；不敬虔的人，他的指望必成泡影。

¹³So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

¹⁴他所自恃的，必被折断；他所靠赖的，不过是蜘蛛网。

¹⁴Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.

¹⁵他倚靠自己的家，家却立不住，他抓紧自己的家，家却存不久。

¹⁵He leaneth on his house — and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it — and it abideth not.

¹⁶他在阳光之下，枝润叶青，它的嫩枝长满园子，

¹⁶Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.

¹⁷它的根缠绕石堆，扎入石地之中。

¹⁷By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.

¹⁸他若从本处被拔除，那处就否认他，说：‘我没有见过你。’

¹⁸If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!

¹⁹看哪，这就是他人生的乐趣，往后必有别的人从尘土中生出来。

¹⁹Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.`

²⁰　神不丢弃完全人看哪，　神必不离弃完全人，也不扶助行恶的人之手；

²⁰Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.

²¹他还要以欢笑充满你的口，以欢呼充满你的嘴。

²¹While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,

²²恨你的都必以羞耻为衣，恶人的帐棚必归于无有。”

²²Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!