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英語原文
THIRD SERIES.
Job 23:1-17.
JOB'S ANSWER.
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2. 今日（to-day）——也许暗示辩论持续不止一日（参引言）。
发怨言（bitter）——（伯7:11；10:1）。
我的刑罚（my stroke）——指神在我身上的手（边注，伯19:21；诗32:4）。
重于（heavier than）——重得使我无法以呻吟来充分纾解。
英語原文
2. to-day--implying, perhaps, that the debate was carried on through more days than one (see
Introduction).
bitter--
(Job 7:11; 10:1).
my stroke--the hand of God on me (Margin,
Job 19:21; Ps 32:4).
heavier than--is so heavy that I cannot relieve myself adequately by groaning.
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3. 与伯13:3同样的愿望（参来10:19-22）。
宝座（Seat）——希伯来文的意思是一座布置完备的宝座（诗9:7）。
英語原文
3. The same wish as in
Job 13:3
(compare
Heb 10:19-22).
Seat--The idea in the Hebrew is a well-prepared throne
(Ps 9:7).
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4. 陈明（order）——即有条理地陈述（伯13:18；赛43:26）。
充满……云云（fill, &c.）——我必有充足的论据可以提出。
英語原文
4. order--state methodically
(Job 13:18; Isa 43:26).
fill, &c.--I would have abundance of arguments to adduce.
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5. 祂（he）——着重之语：只要我晓得神如何判断我，人怎样说我都无关紧要。
英語原文
5. he--emphatic: it little matters what man may say of me, if only I know what God judges of me.
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6. 当他发出这愿望（伯23:5）时，一个异议浮上心头：我借此是否愿祂以全能与我争辩？断不是！（伯9:19、34；13:21；30:18）。
大力（strength）——即胜过祂：如雅各的例子（何12:3、4）。翁布雷特（UMBREIT）与毛雷尔（MAURER）更佳地译作如伯4:20那样：（我只愿祂）“留意我”，即像普通的法官那样耐心听我，不用祂的全能，只用祂对我无辜的神圣知识。
英語原文
6. An objection suggests itself, while he utters the wish
(Job 23:5).
Do I hereby wish that He should plead against me with His omnipotence? Far from it!
(Job 9:19, 34; 13:21; 30:18).
strength--so as to prevail with Him: as in Jacob's case
(Ho 12:3, 4).
UMBREIT and MAURER better translate as in
Job 4:20
(I only wish that He) "would attend to me," that is, give me a patient hearing as an ordinary judge, not using His omnipotence, but only His divine knowledge of my innocence.
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7. 那里（There）——更当译作“那时”：若神肯“留意”我（伯23:6）。
义人（righteous）——即我诉讼的结果必是：祂承认我为义。
救拔（delivered）——脱离我的审判者那边的罪嫌。
英語原文
7. There--rather, "Then": if God would "attend" to me
(Job 23:6).
righteous--that is, the result of my dispute would be, He would acknowledge me as righteous.
delivered--from suspicion of guilt on the part of my Judge.
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8. 但我愿望徒然。因“看哪”云云。
前……后（forward . . . backward）——更当译作：“东——西。”希伯来地理学者面向东方，即日出之处：不像我们面向北方。故“前”指东，“后”指西（印度人也如此）。Para，“前”——东；Apara，“后”——西；Daschina，“右手”——南；Bama，“左手”——北。亚洲（Asia）“日出”、欧洲（Europe）“日落”之名，也类似地指向日出；如罗林森（RAWLINSON）所指出，这都是纯粹的巴比伦名字。
英語原文
8. But I wish in vain. For "behold," &c.
forward . . . backward--rather, "to the east--to the west." The Hebrew geographers faced the east, that is, sunrise: not the north, as we do. So "before" means east: "behind," west (so the Hindus). Para, "before"--east: Apara, "behind"--west: Daschina, "the right hand"--south: Bama, "left"--north. A similar reference to sunrise appears in the name Asia, "sunrise," Europe, "sunset"; pure Babylonian names, as RAWLINSON shows.
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9. 更当译作：“往北方”。
作为（work）——神荣耀的作为在北半天球尤为人所见（对北半球的人而言）。对比在于神行事却不被看见：如伯9:11中“祂经过”与“我看不见祂”的对比。若希伯来文容许，翁布雷特（UMBREIT）译作“隐藏自己”更合平行句；但那样与“看哪”的对比便失去了。
右手（right hand）——“在南方”。
隐藏（hideth）——恰当地用于未探明的南方，当时被视为因炎热而不可居之处（参伯34:29）。
英語原文
9. Rather, "To the north."
work--God's glorious works are especially seen towards the north region of the sky by one in the northern hemisphere. The antithesis is between God working and yet not being beheld: as in
Job 9:11,
between "He goeth by," and "I see Him not." If the Hebrew bears it, the parallelism to the second clause is better suited by translating, as UMBREIT, "doth hide himself"; but then the antithesis to "behold" would be lost.
right hand--"in the south."
hideth--appropriately, of the unexplored south, then regarded as uninhabitable because of its heat (see
Job 34:29).
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10. 只是（But）——他纠正自己愿自己的案件在神面前显明的说法。那无所不知的已经知道我里面的道路（我的内在原则；祂外在的道路或行事轨迹记在伯23:11。如此处的“在我里面”，伯4:21）；尽管祂因某个不可测的缘故暂时隐藏自己（伯23:8、9）。
当（when）——只要祂审断我的案件，我就……云云。
英語原文
10. But--correcting himself for the wish that his cause should be known before God. The omniscient One already knoweth the way in me (my inward principles: His outward way or course of acts is mentioned in
Job 23:11.
So in me,
Job 4:21);
though for some inscrutable cause He as yet hides Himself
(Job 23:8, 9).
when--let Him only but try my cause, I shall, &c.
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11. 紧紧跟随（held）——即紧随祂的脚步。旧约诗歌中，律法被视为一条道路，神在我们前头行作我们的引导，我们当踏着祂的脚踪而行（诗17:5）。
偏离（declined）——（诗125:5）。
英語原文
11. held--fast by His steps. The law is in Old Testament poetry regarded as a way, God going before us as our guide, in whose footsteps we must tread
(Ps 17:5).
declined--
(Ps 125:5).
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12. 看重（esteemed）——更当译作“珍藏”，即如寻得的宝贝（太13:44；诗119:11）；暗指以利法的话（伯22:22）。无须你来告诉我；我早已如此行了（耶15:16）。
需用（necessary）——“所派定的份”（食物；如箴30:8）。翁布雷特（UMBREIT）与毛雷尔（MAURER）译作：“过于我的律法”，即我自己的旨意，与“祂口中的言语”相对（约6:38）。大概在“我所派定的”这笼统说法（同一希伯来文在伯23:14）下，包含了所有满足肉体食欲与肉体旨意的事物。
英語原文
12. esteemed--rather, "laid up," namely, as a treasure found
(Mt 13:44; Ps 119:11);
alluding to the words of Eliphaz
(Job 22:22).
There was no need to tell me so; I have done so already
(Jer 15:16).
necessary--"Appointed portion" (of food; as in
Pr 30:8).
UMBREIT and MAURER translate, "More than my law," my own will, in antithesis to "the words of His mouth"
(Joh 6:38).
Probably under the general term, "what is appointed to me" (the same Hebrew is in
Job 23:14),
all that ministers to the appetites of the body and carnal will is included.
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13. in one mind——尽管我无辜,他在要我定为有罪的旨意上毫不改变
(Job 9:12)。
soul——他的旨意
(Ps 115:3)。
这是神的主权。他有一个伟大的旨意;无一出于偶然;万事都各按其位,为着他的旨意。
英語原文
13. in one mind--notwithstanding my innocence, He is unaltered in His purpose of proving me guilty
(Job 9:12).
soul--His will
(Ps 115:3).
God's sovereignty. He has one great purpose; nothing is haphazard; everything has its proper place with a view to His purpose.
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14. many such——他尚有许多这样的灾祸为我预留,虽藏于他胸中
(Job 10:13)。
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14. many such--He has yet many more such ills in store for me, though hidden in His breast
(Job 10:13).
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15. 神那不可抗拒、又使我们无从预知其后的旨意,足以使人心充满圣洁的敬畏[BARNES]。
英語原文
15. God's decrees, impossible to be resisted, and leaving us in the dark as to what may come next, are calculated to fill the mind with holy awe [BARNES].
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16. soft——发软;消融了我的胆气。此处约伯的话也是耶稣基督的话\n (Ps 22:14)。
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16. soft--faint; hath melted my courage. Here again Job's language is that of Jesus Christ
(Ps 22:14).
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17. 因为我未被死亡从所要临到的灾祸中取去(字面作“从黑暗的面之前”,\n Isa 57:1)。
暗指以利法的话\n (Job 22:11)
“黑暗”,即灾祸。
cut off——更宜取阿拉伯语之意,作被带到寂静之地;我悲伤的哀呼在死中止息[UMBREIT]。第二句的“黑暗”与第一句不是同一个希伯来文字,作“云”、“朦胧”。他不是“将(恶事的)云遮蔽使不临到我面”,反而是用云“遮蔽”我\n (Job 22:11)。
英語原文
17. Because I was not taken away by death from the evil to come (literally, "from before the face of the darkness,"
Isa 57:1).
Alluding to the words of Eliphaz
(Job 22:11),
"darkness," that is, calamity.
cut off--rather, in the Arabic sense, brought to the land of silence; my sad complaint hushed in death [UMBREIT]. "Darkness" in the second clause, not the same Hebrew word as in the first, "cloud," "obscurity." Instead of "covering the cloud (of evil) from my face," He "covers" me with it
(Job 22:11).
第三轮。
伯23:1-17。
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