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Job 7:1-21.
英文原文
Job 7:1-21.
JOB EXCUSES HIS DESIRE FOR DEATH.
1. appointed time--better, "a warfare," hard conflict with evil (so in
Isa 40:2; Da 10:1).
Translate it "appointed time"
(Job 14:14).
Job reverts to the sad picture of man, however great, which he had drawn
(Job 3:14),
and details in this chapter the miseries which his friends will see, if, according to his request
(Job 6:28),
they will look on him. Even the Christian soldier, "warring a good warfare," rejoices when it is completed
(1Ti 1:18; 2Ti 2:3; 4:7, 8).
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2. 切望——希伯來文作「切慕（傍晚的）影子」。東方人以影子的長短來量度時間。僕人既切慕傍晚發工價的時候，約伯為何不能切慕他艱苦服役的終結，那時他將進入他的「賞賜」呢？這證明約伯並不如許多人所主張的那樣，視墳墓不過為沉睡。
英文原文
2. earnestly desireth--Hebrew, "pants for the [evening] shadow." Easterners measure time by the length of their shadow. If the servant longs for the evening when his wages are paid, why may not Job long for the close of his hard service, when he shall enter on his "reward?" This proves that Job did not, as many maintain, regard the grave as a mere sleep.
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3. ——即毫無安慰的災月。
我受了分派——直譯為「我承受為業」。這是諷刺。「承受為業」通常是一件喜事；但此處卻是一份非出自願、令人沮喪的產業的延續。
月——以「月」代「日」，表達其持續之久。
指定——直譯為「他們向我數算」；清楚標明那加在他身上無可避免的厄運。
英文原文
3.--Months of comfortless misfortune.
I am made to possess--literally, "to be heir to." Irony. "To be heir to," is usually a matter of joy; but here it is the entail of an involuntary and dismal inheritance.
Months--for days, to express its long duration.
Appointed--literally, "they have numbered to me"; marking well the unavoidable doom assigned to him.
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4. 直譯為「黑夜的飛逝何時來到呢？」〔格塞尼烏斯，GESENIUS〕。翁布賴特（UMBREIT）的譯法則不然：「黑夜拉得很長」；直譯為「量出」（如邊註所言）。
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4. Literally, "When shall be the flight of the night?" [GESENIUS]. UMBREIT, not so well, "The night is long extended"; literally, "measured out" (so Margin).
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5. 象皮病的潰爛處會滋生蛆蟲（徒12:23；賽14:11）。
塵土的硬塊——更當譯作一層乾涸的污穢和積聚的腐敗物的硬殼（伯2:7, 8）。
我的皮膚破裂而……令人厭惡——更當譯作：癒合起來，然後又破裂流出膿液〔格塞尼烏斯，GESENIUS〕。希伯來文更簡單地說：「我的皮膚（暫時）平息，（然後又）融化」（詩58:7）。
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5. In elephantiasis maggots are bred in the sores
(Ac 12:23; Isa 14:11).
clods of dust--rather, a crust of dried filth and accumulated corruption
(Job 2:7, 8).
my skin is broken and . . . loathsome--rather, comes together so as to heal up, and again breaks out with running matter [GESENIUS]. More simply the Hebrew is, "My skin rests (for a time) and (again) melts away"
(Ps 58:7).
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6.
（賽38:12）。
每一天如織布的梭子留下一根線；各人將照他所織的穿上。但約伯的意思是他的日子必如布疋一般被迅速剪斷。
毫無指望——即康復和生命更新的指望（伯14:19；代上29:15）。
英文原文
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(Isa 38:12).
Every day like the weaver's shuttle leaves a thread behind; and each shall wear, as he weaves. But Job's thought is that his days must swiftly be cut off as a web;
without hope--namely, of a recovery and renewal of life
(Job 14:19; 1Ch 29:15).
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7. 對神說的話。
氣——短暫的圖畫（詩78:39）。
不再見——更當譯作「不再回到見好的日子」。這與伯3:17等處不同的願望相比，是最真實的自然反應。他此刻心情較為柔和；昔日興盛之日的一線光照在記憶上，以及那不可見的世界——在那裏人不再被看見（伯7:8）——這念頭使他發出離開這光之世界的遺憾（傳11:7）；希西家也是如此（賽38:11）。恩典超越自然（林後5:8）。
英文原文
7. Address to God.
Wind--a picture of evanescence
(Ps 78:39).
shall no more see--rather, "shall no more return to see good." This change from the different wish in
Job 3:17,
&c., is most true to nature. He is now in a softer mood; a beam from former days of prosperity falling upon memory and the thought of the unseen world, where one is seen no more
(Job 7:8),
drew from him an expression of regret at leaving this world of light
(Ec 11:7);
so Hezekiah
(Isa 38:11).
Grace rises above nature
(2Co 5:8).
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8. 那看見我的眼睛（現在時態，不是過去時態），即在觀看我的那一刻，就不再看見我了。
你的眼睛在我身上，我卻不在了——他消失了，甚至正當神注視著他的時候。約伯不能在耶和華的注視下存活（詩104:32；啟20:11）。不是「你的眼睛尋找我，我卻不被尋見」；因為神的眼目甚至透視不可見的世界（詩139:8）。翁布賴特（UMBREIT）不自然地將「你的」理解為三友中的一位。
英文原文
8. The eye of him who beholds me (present, not past), that is, in the very act of beholding me, seeth me no more.
Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not--He disappears, even while God is looking upon him. Job cannot survive the gaze of Jehovah
(Ps 104:32; Re 20:11).
Not, "Thine eyes seek me and I am not to be found"; for God's eye penetrates even to the unseen world
(Ps 139:8).
UMBREIT unnaturally takes "thine" to refer to one of the three friends.
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9.（撒下12:23）。
墳墓——即示阿勒，亡靈之所，並不否定約伯對復活的信仰。這話僅僅表示：「他不再上來」——在現今的秩序之下。
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(2Sa 12:23).
the grave--the Sheol, or place of departed spirits, not disproving Job's belief in the resurrection. It merely means, "He shall come up no more" in the present order of things.
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10.（詩103:16。）
東方人深愛自己的居所。在阿拉伯人的輓歌中，居民離棄故居常是哀傷的主題。恩典也能勝過這點（路18:29；徒4:34）。
英文原文
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(Ps 103:16).
The Oriental keenly loves his dwelling. In Arabian elegies the desertion of abodes by their occupants is often a theme of sorrow. Grace overcomes this also
(Lu 18:29; Ac 4:34).
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11. 因此，既然我的命運如此艱難，我至少要在言語中抒發我的憂愁，以獲得這悲傷的滿足。希伯來文的開首語「因此我，無論如何」，表達了一種自高的氣概〔翁布賴特，UMBREIT〕。
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11. Therefore, as such is my hard lot, I will at least have the melancholy satisfaction of venting my sorrow in words. The Hebrew opening words, "Therefore I, at all events," express self-elevation [UMBREIT].
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12. 你為何不讓我得著那能消減憂愁之睡眠的安慰？為何用可怖的夢魘驚嚇我？
我是海嗎——在舊約詩歌中被視為向神——自然之主——強烈叛逆的，因此他約束其狂暴（耶5:22）。
或是鱷魚——或別的海怪（賽27:1），以至於你需要如此看守約束我？埃及人極其小心地看守鱷魚，以防其為害。
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12. Why dost thou deny me the comfort of care-assuaging sleep? Why scarest thou me with frightful dreams?
Am I a sea--regarded in Old Testament poetry as a violent rebel against God, the Lord of nature, who therefore curbs his violence
(Jer 5:22).
or a whale--or some other sea monster
(Isa 27:1),
that Thou needest thus to watch and curb me? The Egyptians watched the crocodile most carefully to prevent its doing mischief.
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14. 他將那由象皮病所引起的恐怖夢魘歸於神；當時普遍的信念把一切夜間的異象都歸於神。
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14. The frightful dreams resulting from elephantiasis he attributes to God; the common belief assigned all night visions to God.
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15. 翁佈雷特（UMBREIT）譯作：「以致我情願勒死自己——死在自己手中。」他緩和了約伯懷有自殺念頭這一想法，將之描繪為僅在痛苦的夢中出現，並在
伯7:16
立即以恐懼加以棄絕：「那（自縊之事）是我所厭惡的。」這譯法有力而生動。或許意思是簡單地：「我的靈魂寧願選擇（甚至）勒死（或任何暴死），也不願保留我的性命」，字面作「我的骨頭」
（詩35:10）；
即不願保留那只剩下皮包骨、病痛纏身的軀體。按此觀點，「我厭惡它」
（伯7:16）
指的是他的性命。
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15. UMBREIT translates, "So that I could wish to strangle myself--dead by my own hands." He softens this idea of Job's harboring the thought of suicide, by representing it as entertained only in agonizing dreams, and immediately repudiated with horror in
Job 7:16,
"Yet that (self-strangling) I loathe." This is forcible and graphic. Perhaps the meaning is simply, "My soul chooses (even) strangling (or any violent death) rather than my life," literally, "my bones"
(Ps 35:10);
that is, rather than the wasted and diseased skeleton, left to him. In this view, "I loathe it"
(Job 7:16)
refers to his life.
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16. 任憑我——即在我所剩無幾、又虛空的年日裏，不要再苦待我。
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16. Let me alone--that is, cease to afflict me for the few and vain days still left to me.
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（詩8:4；144:3。）
約伯的意思是：「人是甚麼，你竟使他〔如此重要〕，你竟對他耗費這樣的注意〔或說心中的思念〕」，以至於使他成為如此嚴厲試煉的對象？約伯本應當從神如此屈尊注意人甚至試煉人這一點推論：試煉之中必有智慧而慈愛的旨意。大衛使用同樣的話，用得恰當，表達對神竟然為微小的人作這麼多事的驚奇。認識那位在肉身中顯現之神的基督徒，更可以使用這些話。
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(Ps 8:4; 144:3).
Job means, "What is man that thou shouldst make him [of so much importance], and that thou shouldst expend such attention [or, heart-thought] upon him" as to make him the subject of so severe trials? Job ought rather to have reasoned from God's condescending so far to notice man as to try him, that there must be a wise and loving purpose in trial. David uses the same words, in their right application, to express wonder that God should do so much as He does for insignificant man. Christians who know God manifest in the man Christ Jesus may use them still more.
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18. 每一個新日子
（詩73:14。）
其實每早晨更新的，是神的憐憫，而不是我們的試煉
（哀3:23）。
這意象是牧人每早晨數點他的羊群，看是否都在〔科克策伊烏斯，COCCEIUS〕。
英文原文
18. With each new day
(Ps 73:14).
It is rather God's mercies, not our trials, that are new every morning
(La 3:23).
The idea is that of a shepherd taking count of his flock every morning, to see if all are there [COCCEIUS].
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19. （如一個嫉妒的看守者）你何時才不（希伯來文「離開」即此意）把目光從我身上挪開？何時才讓我有片刻喘息（字面作「甚至我咽唾沫的工夫」），這是一句阿拉伯諺語，如同我們所說的「等我喘口氣」。
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19. How long (like a jealous keeper) wilt thou never take thine eyes off (so the Hebrew for "depart from") me? Nor let me alone for a brief respite (literally, "so long as I take to swallow my spittle"), an Arabic proverb, like our, "till I draw my breath."
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20. 我犯罪了——然而我能犯甚麼罪對抗（「干犯」，
伯35:6）
你（性質嚴重到你需要如此嚴密監視我、剝奪我一切力量，彷佛你怕我）？但你是一位時刻注視人、時刻鑒察人的——哦，你這鑒察者
（伯7:12；但9:14）。
約伯一直忍耐地承受他作為從神而來的試煉
（伯1:21；2:10）；
只是他的理性無法調和他身心痛苦的持續不斷與他對神性情的認識。
作為箭靶子——你為何以我為攻擊的目標？即不住以新的痛苦攻擊我？〔翁佈雷特，UMBREIT〕
（哀3:12）。
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20. I have sinned--Yet what sin can I do against ("to,"
Job 35:6)
thee (of such a nature that thou shouldst jealously watch and deprive me of all strength, as if thou didst fear me)? Yet thou art one who hast men ever in view, ever watchest them--O thou Watcher
(Job 7:12; Da 9:14)
of men. Job had borne with patience his trials, as sent by God
(Job 1:21; 2:10);
only his reason cannot reconcile the ceaseless continuance of his mental and bodily pains with his ideas of the divine nature.
set me as a mark--Wherefore dost thou make me thy point of attack? that is, ever assail me with new pains? [UMBREIT]
(La 3:12).
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21. 如今——很快。
早晨——不是指復活；因為那時約伯必被尋見。這是一個比喻，取自一個人早晨去尋找病人，卻發現他已在夜間死了。所以約伯暗示，神若不立即幫助他，就太遲了，因為他將不在了。神之所以不立即給予甦醒之罪人赦罪的感覺，是因為他們以為自己對此有權利要求神。
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21. for now--very soon.
in the morning--not the resurrection; for then Job will be found. It is a figure, from one seeking a sick man in the morning, and finding he has died in the night. So Job implies that, if God does not help him at once, it will be too late, for he will be gone. The reason why God does not give an immediate sense of pardon to awakened sinners is that they think they have a claim on God for it.
伯7:1-21. 約伯為自己求死的願望辯解
1. 爭戰——更佳的譯法是「爭戰」，即與罪惡的艱苦爭戰（賽40:2；但10:1亦是如此）。若譯作「定期」，則見伯14:14。約伯回到他先前（伯3:14）所描繪的那幅無論何等偉大之人皆難逃的悲慘圖畫，並在本章中詳述他的朋友們若照他所求（伯6:28）肯看他一眼，就必看見的種種苦難。即使是作基督精兵、「打那美好的仗」的人，也以爭戰完成為樂（提前1:18；提後2:3；4:7, 8）。