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Job 17:1-16.
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英語原文
Job 17:1-16.
JOB'S ANSWER CONTINUED.
1. breath . . . corrupt--result of elephantiasis. But UMBREIT, "my strength (spirit) is spent."
extinct--Life is compared to an expiring light. "The light of my day is extinguished."
graves--plural, to heighten the force.
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2. 翁布雷特（UMBREIT）更着力地译作：“只要我无须忍受嘲弄，纵然在他们争竞之中，我（我的眼）也能安静。”
眼睛安然（eye continue）——希伯来文作“留宿”，取自夜间安睡的比喻，表示不受干扰的安息；与伯16:20相对，那里约伯的眼被描绘为不得安宁地向神流泪。
英語原文
2. UMBREIT, more emphatically, "had I only not to endure mockery, in the midst of their contentions I (mine eye) would remain quiet."
eye continue--Hebrew, "tarry all night"; a figure taken from sleep at night, to express undisturbed rest; opposed to
(Job 16:20),
when the eye of Job is represented as pouring out tears to God without rest.
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3. 愿你交出（Lay down now）——即交出当头或担保；意即：求你作我的保人；求你证实我的无辜，因我的朋友只是嗤笑我（伯17:2）。诉讼双方在受审前都须交出一笔款项作担保。
为我担保（put me in a surety）——（在审判中）为你我之间预备一位保人。这是那“中保”（来7:22），即“神与人之间的一位中保”的预表（参伯16:21注释）。
击掌（strike hands）——“除了神自己以外，还有谁能与我击掌呢？”即作我的担保（诗119:122）。希伯来人为所担保的对象击掌（箴6:1）。
英語原文
3. Lay down now--namely, a pledge or security; that is, be my surety; do Thou attest my innocence, since my friends only mock me
(Job 17:2).
Both litigating parties had to lay down a sum as security before the trial.
put me in a surety--Provide a surety for me (in the trial) with Thee. A presage of the "surety"
(Heb 7:22),
or "one Mediator between God and man" (see on
Job 16:21).
strike hands--"who else (save God Himself) could strike hands with me?" that is, be my security
(Ps 119:122).
The Hebrew strikes the hand of him for whom he goes security
(Pr 6:1).
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4. 他们的心（their heart）——指他朋友的悟性。
要……高举（shalt . . . exalt）——更当为命令式：“不要高举他们”；不容让他们得胜[翁布雷特（UMBREIT）]（赛6:9、10）。
英語原文
4. their heart--The intellect of his friends.
shalt . . . exalt--Rather imperative, "exalt them not"; allow them not to conquer [UMBREIT],
(Isa 6:9, 10).
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5. “谄媚”的希伯来文原为“光滑”；后来引申为拈阄所分的猎物，因掣签时用的是光滑的石头（申18:8），即“一份”（创14:24）。故当译作：“那将朋友当作猎物交出去的（我朋友们所行的正暗示他们会如此行），连眼睛”云云[诺伊斯（NOYES）]（伯11:20）。约伯这话是论罪人的儿女，反将他们关于他儿女被剪除的责备还敬他们（伯5:4；15:30）。这与旧约律法报应的施行相符（出20:5）。
英語原文
5. The Hebrew for "flattery" is "smoothness"; then it came to mean a prey divided by lot, because a smooth stone was used in casting the lots
(De 18:8),
"a portion"
(Ge 14:24).
Therefore translate, "He that delivers up his friend as a prey (which the conduct of my friends implies that they would do), even the eyes," &c. [NOYES]
(Job 11:20).
Job says this as to the sinner's children, retorting upon their reproach as to the cutting off of his
(Job 5:4; 15:30).
This accords with the Old Testament dispensation of legal retribution
(Ex 20:5).
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6. 祂（He）——指神。诗人论到神所降的灾祸时，恭敬地隐去神的名。
笑谈（by-word）——（申28:37；诗69:11）。我可怕的刑罚使我的名到处被人咒诅，仿佛我必定是坏到极处才遭此报。
从前……鼓瑟（aforetime . . . tabret）——如大卫从前所受的尊荣（撒上18:6）。更可能源自另一希伯来文字根：“我在人前被当作厌恶之物”，原文作“当面被人吐唾沫之物”（民12:14）。Raca 一词也是如此（太5:22）[翁布雷特（UMBREIT）]。
英語原文
6. He--God. The poet reverentially suppresses the name of God when speaking of calamities inflicted.
by-word--
(De 28:37; Ps 69:11).
My awful punishment makes my name execrated everywhere, as if I must have been superlatively bad to have earned it.
aforetime . . . tabret--as David was honored
(1Sa 18:6).
Rather from a different Hebrew root, "I am treated to my face as an object of disgust," literally, "an object to be spit upon in the face"
(Nu 12:14).
So Raca means
(Mt 5:22)
[UMBREIT].
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7. （诗6:7；31:9；申34:7）。
肢体（members）——原文作“形状”；因身体各肢体都是身体独特的形态；与“影子”相对，影子看起来像一个没有实体的形状。
英語原文
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(Ps 6:7; 31:9; De 34:7).
members--literally, "figures"; all the individual members being peculiar forms of the body; opposed to "shadow," which looks like a figure without solidity.
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8. 诧异（astonied）——因我无辜受苦而惊诧。
对假冒为善的人（against the hypocrite）——正直人必因恶人的兴旺而感到公义受损（“将要发怒”）。“假冒为善的人”或“不敬虔之人”，他也许是暗指他那些虚伪的朋友。
英語原文
8. astonied--at my unmerited sufferings.
against the hypocrite--The upright shall feel their sense of justice wounded ("will be indignant") because of the prosperity of the wicked. By "hypocrite" or "ungodly," he perhaps glances at his false friends.
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9. 宗教原则的力量因不幸而增强。敬虔人将从受苦之约伯的榜样中得着新的勇气，坚持到底。这意象取自在争战中重新得勇的战士（赛40:30、31；腓1:14）。
英語原文
9. The strength of religious principle is heightened by misfortune. The pious shall take fresh courage to persevere from the example of suffering Job. The image is from a warrior acquiring new courage in action
(Isa 40:30, 31; Php 1:14).
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10. 回转（return）——你们若有什么真正明智的话可说——虽然我怀疑——就请重新发言。因为至今我在你们众人中找不到一个智慧人。
英語原文
10. return--If you have anything to advance really wise, though I doubt it, recommence your speech. For as yet I cannot find one wise man among you all.
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11. 只是不要徒然论到我健康的恢复；因“我的日子已经过了”。
断绝（broken off）——如织布从织机上剪断的线（赛38:12）。
心思（thoughts）——原文作“所有物”，即我心曾怀的一切感受与美好的盼望。这些属于心，正如“旨意”属于悟性；两者合在此处描述整个内在的人。
英語原文
11. Only do not vainly speak of the restoration of health to me; for "my days are past."
broken off--as the threads of the web cut off from the loom
(Isa 38:12).
thoughts--literally, "possessions," that is, all the feelings and fair hopes which my heart once nourished. These belong to the heart, as "purposes" to the understanding; the two together here describe the entire inner man.
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12. 他们（They）——即“我的朋友们”。
以黑夜为白昼（change the night into day）——即试图说服我，我的苦难已转为喜乐；这是不可能的[翁布雷特（UMBREIT）]（伯11:17）；（然而）兴旺之光（若能享受）必短促，因有逆境之黑暗。或更佳的是，“短促”更当按希伯来文译作“近”；“新兴旺之光在死亡黑暗的面前应当临近了”；即他们要说服我光已临近，尽管黑暗逼近。
英語原文
12. They--namely, "my friends."
change the night into day--that is, would try to persuade me of the change of my misery into joy, which is impossible [UMBREIT]
(Job 11:17);
(but) the light of prosperity (could it be enjoyed) would be short because of the darkness of adversity. Or better for "short," the Hebrew "near"; "and the light of new prosperity should be near in the face of (before) the darkness of death"; that is, they would persuade me that light is near, even though darkness approaches.
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13. 更宜译作:“若我以这坟墓(示阿勒,即未见之世)为我的房屋而等候,在黑暗中铺我的床榻
(Job 17:14),
并对朽坏说”,更宜作“对坑”或“坟墓”说等等
(Job 17:15)。
我的盼望在哪里呢?[UMBREIT]。应句在
Job 17:15。
英語原文
13. Rather, "if I wait for this grave (Sheol, or the unseen world) as my house, and make my bed in the darkness
(Job 17:14),
and say to corruption," rather, "to the pit" or "grave," &c.
(Job 17:15).
Where then is my hope? [UMBREIT]. The apodosis is at
Job 17:15.
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14. Thou art my father等——表达最亲密的联合
(Pr 7:4)。
他的病态使他密切亲近于坟墓与虫。
英語原文
14. Thou art my father, &c.--expressing most intimate connection
(Pr 7:4).
His diseased state made him closely akin to the grave and worm.
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15. 谁能看见这事成就?即他们向他提出的“盼望”\n (Job 11:18)——复兴之望。
英語原文
15. Who shall see it fulfilled? namely, the "hope"
(Job 11:18)
which they held out to him of restoration.
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16. They——即我的盼望将与我同葬。
bars——见
(Isa 38:10)。
更宜作:坑(示阿勒,即未见之世)的荒凉或寂寞。
rest together——我与我的盼望同息于等等。二者同归于尽。“息”一词暗示人不息的盼望只会夺取他的安息。
英語原文
16. They--namely, my hopes shall be buried with me.
bars--
(Isa 38:10).
Rather, the wastes or solitudes of the pit (sheol, the unseen world).
rest together--the rest of me and my hope is in, &c. Both expire together. The word "rest" implies that man's ceaseless hopes only rob him of rest.
伯17:1-16。
约伯的答复（续）
1. 气息……败坏（breath . . . corrupt）——为大麻风（elephantiasis）所致的结果。但翁布雷特（UMBREIT）译作：“我的力量（心灵）已经耗尽。”
熄灭（extinct）——生命被比作将熄的灯火。“我白昼的光已经熄灭了。”
坟墓（graves）——用复数以加强语气。