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FIRST SERIES--FIRST SPEECH OF BILDAD, MORE SEVERE
AND COARSE THAN THAT OF ELIPHAZ.
Job 8:1-22.
THE ADDRESS OF BILDAD.
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2. 如……狂風？——無視一切約束，並膽敢對抗神。
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2. like a . . . wind?--disregarding restraints, and daring against God.
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3. 「偏離」一詞的重複加強了語氣，令約伯感到刺痛（伯34:12）。「難道你要神」（正如你的話所暗示的）「偏離判斷」，任憑你的罪不受罰嗎？他從約伯的受苦推斷約伯有罪。
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3. The repetition of "pervert" gives an emphasis galling to Job
(Job 34:12).
"Wouldst thou have God," as thy words imply, "pervert judgment," by letting thy sins go unpunished? He assumes Job's guilt from his sufferings.
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4. 若——更當譯作：「既然你的兒女得罪了他，他（希伯來文藉著手）把他們因其過犯丟棄了，（然而）你若尋求神等等，你若清潔等等，[即使]現在他也必為你醒起。」翁布賴特（UMBREIT）使「既然你的兒女」等等的應答子句從「他把他們丟棄了」開始。他又以「任憑」代替「因」，即「他任憑他們落在（直譯為交在*……的手中）自己的罪惡中」。比勒達表達的是約伯所質疑的神的公義。你的兒女犯了罪；神任憑他們承受罪的後果；這對喪子之父的心最為刺痛。
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4. If--Rather, "Since thy children have sinned against Him, and (since) He has cast them away (Hebrew, by the hand of) for their transgressions, (yet) if thou wouldst seek unto God, &c., if thou wert pure, &c., surely [even] now He would awake for thee." UMBREIT makes the apodosis to, "since thy children," &c., begin at "He has cast them away." Also, instead of "for," "He gave them up to (literally, into the hand of) their own guilt." Bildad expresses the justice of God, which Job had arraigned. Thy children have sinned; God leaves them to the consequence of their sin; most cutting to the heart of the bereaved father.
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5. 懇切尋求神——及早。使之成為首要的、最要緊的掛慮（詩78:34；何5:15；賽26:9；箴8:17；13:24）。
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5. seek unto God betimes--early. Make it the first and chief anxiety
(Ps 78:34; Ho 5:15; Isa 26:9; Pr 8:17; 13:24).
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6. 他必為你醒起——即起來幫助你。神對受苦者似乎睡了（詩35:23；7:6；賽51:9）。
使……興盛——即使你（你們）那公義的居所恢復興盛。比勒達假定它迄今一直是罪惡的居所。
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6. He would awake for thee--that is, arise to thy help. God seemed to be asleep toward the sufferer
(Ps 35:23; 7:6; Isa 51:9).
make . . . prosperous--restore to prosperity thy (their) righteous habitation. Bildad assumes it to have been heretofore the habitation of guilt.
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7. 你的起頭——即你復原後新幸福的起頭。
末後——
（伯42:12；箴23:18）。
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7. thy beginning--the beginning of thy new happiness after restoration.
latter end--
(Job 42:12; Pr 23:18).
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8, 9. 古時的智者達到的壽命超過約伯時代的人（見伯42:16的註解），因此能提供更充分經歷的見證。
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8, 9. The sages of the olden time reached an age beyond those of Job's time (see on
Job 42:16),
and therefore could give the testimony of a fuller experience.
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9. 昨日的——即晚近的一族。與先祖相比，我們因壽命短促而一無所知；甚至雅各也是如此（創47:9）。
當時的知識在於觀察的結果，以詩意的箴言呈現，並藉傳統流傳下來。長壽提供了更廣泛觀察的機會。
影子——（詩144:4；代上29:15）。
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9. of yesterday--that is, a recent race. We know nothing as compared with them because of the brevity of our lives; so even Jacob
(Ge 47:9).
Knowledge consisted then in the results of observation, embodied in poetical proverbs, and handed down by tradition. Longevity gave the opportunity of wider observation.
a shadow--
(Ps 144:4; 1Ch 29:15).
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10. 教導你——約伯在伯6:24曾說：「指教我。」因此比勒達說：「你既要指教，就當求問先祖。他們必告訴你。」
發言——不止是說話；「說出經過深思熟慮的話」。
從心裡——出於觀察和反思；不只是出於口：正如比勒達所暗示約伯的話那樣。
伯8:11-13以詩意而精簡的形式（可能是一首古詩的殘篇）將先祖的觀察囊括其中。不虔之人與蒲草的雙重相似之處在於：一、起初茂盛的興旺；二、突然的毀滅。
英文原文
10. teach thee--
Job 6:24
had said, "Teach me." Bildad, therefore, says, "Since you want teaching, inquire of the fathers. They will teach thee."
utter words--more than mere speaking; "put forth well-considered words."
out of their heart--from observation and reflection; not merely, from their mouth: such, as Bildad insinuates, were Job's words.
Job 8:11-13
embody in poetic and sententious form (probably the fragment of an old poem) the observation of the elders. The double point of comparison between the ungodly and the paper-reed is: 1. the luxuriant prosperity at first; and, 2. the sudden destruction.
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11. 葸草——更當譯作「蒲草」：埃及的紙莎草，可用來製作衣服、鞋子、籃子、船和紙（「paper」一詞即由此而來）。
它和蘆葦（或蒲草）只生長在沼澤之地（如尼羅河沿岸）。照樣，不虔之人只在表面興旺時才能茂盛；偽君子內裏沒有穩固的根基；他的興旺如同水生植物的迅速生長。
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11. rush--rather, "paper-reed": The papyrus of Egypt, which was used to make garments, shoes, baskets, boats, and paper (a word derived from it). It and the flag, or bulrush, grow only in marshy places (such as are along the Nile). So the godless thrives only in external prosperity; there is in the hypocrite no inward stability; his prosperity is like the rapid growth of water plants.
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12. 尚未割下——在它達到可割的成熟之前，就比任何草枯乾得更快，因為一旦失去水分，它便無自持之力，而別的草則不那樣需要水分。
照樣，毀滅抓住不虔之人於興旺的頂峰，比抓住那些表面看來在其所有物上不那麼穩固的人更為突然〔翁布賴特，UMBREIT〕（詩112:10）。
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12. not cut down--Before it has ripened for the scythe, it withers more suddenly than any herb, having no self-sustaining power, once that the moisture is gone, which other herbs do not need in the same degree. So ruin seizes on the godless in the zenith of prosperity, more suddenly than on others who appear less firmly seated in their possessions [UMBREIT]
(Ps 112:10).
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13. 道路——如「路」（箴1:19）。
忘記神的人——不虔之人的顯著特徵（詩9:17，50:22）。
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13. paths--so "ways"
(Pr 1:19).
all that forget God--the distinguishing trait of the godless
(Ps 9:17; 50:22).
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14. 剪除——格世尼斯（GESENIUS）如此譯；或為與蜘蛛「房屋」的比喻相符，譯作「他所仰仗的（根基）必被拆毁」
（賽59:5、6）。
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14. cut off--so GESENIUS; or, to accord with the metaphor of the spider's "house," "The confidence (on which he builds) shall be laid in ruins"
(Isa 59:5, 6).
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15. 他要緊緊抓住——暗示當試煉的風暴來到時他的急切抓取：如同蜘蛛「緊緊抓住」它的網；但有一點不同：輕巧的蜘蛛為它所依賴的網所支撐；不虔的人卻不被他所依賴的細網所支撐。「緊緊抓住」一語本用於蜘蛛抓住它的網，此處轉用於人。假冒為善如蜘蛛網一般，是精紡的、脆弱的，是由自己的虛構織成的，正如蜘蛛網出自自己的腹中。阿拉伯諺語說：「時間既毁建造堅固的房屋，也毁蜘蛛的網。」
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15. he shall hold it fast--implying his eager grasp, when the storm of trial comes: as the spider "holds fast" by its web; but with this difference: the light spider is sustained by that on which it rests; the godless is not by the thin web on which he rests. The expression, "Hold fast," properly applies to the spider holding his web, but is transferred to the man. Hypocrisy, like the spider's web, is fine-spun, flimsy, and woven out of its own inventions, as the spider's web out of its own bowels. An Arab proverb says, "Time destroys the well-built house, as well as the spider's web."
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16. 日頭出來之前——即他（不虔的人）只在日頭出來之前是青翠的；卻受不住日頭的炎熱而枯乾。如同多汁的植物，如藤蔓
（拿4:7、8）。
但「在園中蔓延」與此不甚相符。較佳的譯法是「在日光之下」；日頭代表假冒為善者順遂的際遇，在其間他奇異地發達〔翁佈雷特，UMBREIT〕。這意象是雜草茂盛瘋長，甚至爬滿石堆與牆垣，隨即被迅速拔除。
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16. before the sun--that is, he (the godless) is green only before the sun rises; but he cannot bear its heat, and withers. So succulent plants like the gourd
(Jon 4:7, 8).
But the widespreading in the garden does not quite accord with this. Better, "in sunshine"; the sun representing the smiling fortune of the hypocrite, during which he wondrously progresses [UMBREIT]. The image is that of weeds growing in rank luxuriance and spreading over even heaps of stones and walls, and then being speedily torn away.
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17. 看見石頭堆——希伯來文作「石頭之家」；即圍繞園子的牆。那寄生藤蔓爬向並爬過牆垣——園子最遠的邊界——在修辭上被說成「看見」或注視那牆。
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17. seeth the place of stones--Hebrew, "the house of stones"; that is, the wall surrounding the garden. The parasite plant, in creeping towards and over the wall--the utmost bound of the garden--is said figuratively to "see" or regard it.
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18. 若祂（神）將他（正確地說是「迅速而猛烈地扯去」）從他的地方扯去，「那地方〔擬人化〕就否認他」
（詩103:16）。
連土壤也為其表面上枯乾的雜草感到羞愧，彷彿從未與它們有過任何關聯。照樣，當不虔之人從興旺中跌倒時，他最親近的朋友也與他劃清界線。
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18. If He (God) tear him away (properly, "to tear away rapidly and violently") from his place, "then it [the place personified] shall deny him"
(Ps 103:16).
The very soil is ashamed of the weeds lying withered on its surface, as though it never had been connected with them. So, when the godless falls from prosperity, his nearest friends disown him.
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19. 苦澀的諷剌。假冒為善者誇口歡樂。這就是他最終的「歡樂」。
從地裏——立刻有別人興起，取代那受罰之人的位置；不是敬虔人
（太3:9）。
因為雜草的位置是在石頭中間，園丁不要那裏有任何植物。而是不敬虔人；一批雜草被拔去，總有新的一批在其中興起：假冒為善者在世上沒有窮盡〔翁佈雷特，UMBREIT〕。
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19. Bitter irony. The hypocrite boasts of joy. This then is his "joy" at the last.
and out of the earth--others immediately, who take the place of the man thus punished; not godly men
(Mt 3:9).
For the place of the weeds is among stones, where the gardener wishes no plants. But, ungodly; a fresh crop of weeds always springs up in the place of those torn up: there is no end of hypocrites on earth [UMBREIT].
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20. 比勒達將約伯視為一個落入罪中的義人。
神必不丟棄完全人——（或敬虔人，如約伯從前一樣），只要他肯悔改。惟有那些堅持犯罪的人，神才不會在他們跌倒時幫助（希伯來文作「用手攙扶」，
詩73:23；賽41:13；42:6）。
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20. Bildad regards Job as a righteous man, who has fallen into sin.
God will not cast away a perfect man--(or godly man, such as Job was), if he will only repent. Those alone who persevere in sin God will not help (Hebrew, "take by the hand,"
Ps 73:23; Isa 41:13; 42:6)
when fallen.
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21. 直到——字面作「到了……的地步」；神在你悔改時所賜的福，要一直增加，到了……的地步，即直到，等等。
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21. Till--literally, "to the point that"; God's blessing on thee, when repentant, will go on increasing to the point that, or until, &c.
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22. 恨約伯的人就是惡人。他們必披上慚愧
（耶3:25；詩35:26；109:29），
因他們盼望約伯徹底滅亡的指望落空，並因他們——而不是約伯——歸於無有。
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22. The haters of Job are the wicked. They shall be clothed with shame
(Jer 3:25; Ps 35:26; 109:29),
at the failure of their hope that Job would utterly perish, and because they, instead of him, come to naught.
第一個系列——比勒達的第一次發言，較以利法的更嚴厲粗率
伯8:1-22. 比勒達的陳詞