微读圣经

Job’s Friends Are No Help

1Then Job responded,

2“Oh if only my grief were actually weighed

And laid in the balances together with my disaster!

3For then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas;

For that reason my words have been rash.

4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,

Lit Whose poison my spirit drinks My spirit drinks their poison;

The terrors of God line up against me.

5Does the wild donkey bray over his grass,

Or does the ox low over his feed?

6Can something tasteless be eaten without salt,

Or is there any taste in the Heb hallamuth, meaning uncertainjuice of an alkanet plant?

7My soul refuses to touch them;

They are like loathsome food to me.

8“Oh, that my request might come to pass,

And that God would grant my hope!

9 Oh, that God would decide to crush me,

That He would let loose His hand and cut me off!

10But it is still my comfort,

And I rejoice in unsparing pain,

That I have not Lit hiddendenied the words of the Holy One.

11What is my strength, that I should wait?

And what is my end, that I should Lit prolong my soulendure?

12Is my strength the strength of stones,

Or is my flesh bronze?

13Is it that my help is not within me,

And that a good outcome is driven away from me?

14“For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend;

So that he does not abandon the Or reverence forfear of the Almighty.

15My brothers have acted deceitfully like a I.e., dry stream bed(s), except in the rainy seasonwadi,

Like the torrents of I.e., dry stream bed(s), except in the rainy seasonwadis which drain away,

16Which are darkened because of ice,

And into which the snow Lit hides itselfmelts.

17When they dry up, they vanish;

When it is hot, they disappear from their place.

18The Or caravans turn from their course, they go up into the waste and perishpaths of their course wind along,

They go up into wasteland and perish.

19The caravans of Tema looked,

The travelers of Sheba hoped for them.

20They were put to shame, for they had trusted,

They came there and were humiliated.

21Indeed, you have now become such,

You see terrors and are afraid.

22Have I said, ‘Give me something,’

Or, ‘Offer a bribe for me from your wealth,’

23Or, ‘Save me from the hand of the enemy,’

Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the tyrants’?

24“Teach me, and I will be silent;

And show me how I have done wrong.

25How painful are honest words!

But what does your argument prove?

26Do you intend to rebuke my words,

When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?

27You would even cast lots for the orphans,

And barter over your friend.

28Now please look at me,

And see if I am lying to your face.

29Please turn away, let there be no injustice;

Turn away, my righteousness is still in it.

30Is there injustice on my tongue?

Does my palate not discern disasters?