Job
Chapter 26
1 1 Then Job spoke again and said:
约伯回答说：
2 What help you give to the powerless, what strength to the feeble arm!
无能为力的人，你怎样援助了他？无力的手臂，你怎样支持了他？
3 How you counsel, as though he had no wisdom; how profuse is the advice you offer!
你给无知的人出过什么主意，表现了你多少的智慧？
4 With whose help have you uttered those words, and whose is the breath that comes forth from you?
你说这些话是指教谁？从你心里发出的是谁的精神？
5 2 The shades beneath writhe in terror, the waters, and their inhabitants.
幽魂在地下打颤，海底与居于海底的，惊恐不已。
6 3 Naked before him is the nether world, and Abaddon has no covering.
阴府在他前面显露，死域也无所遮掩。
7 4 He stretches out the North over empty space, and suspends the earth over nothing at all;
他将北极伸张到太虚，将大地悬于虚无之上。
8 He binds up the waters in his clouds, yet the cloud is not rent by their weight;
他将水包在他的云中，托水的云却不破裂。
9 He holds back the appearance of the full moon by spreading his clouds before it.
他遮蔽了满月的面貌，使他的云彩散布其上。
10 5 He has marked out a circle on the surface of the deep as the boundary of light and darkness.
在水面上他划了一圆圈，当作光明与黑暗的分界。
11 The pillars of the heavens tremble and are stunned at his thunderous rebuke;
支天的柱子震动，因他的呵叱而战栗。
12 6 By his power he stirs up the sea, and by his might he crushes Rahab;
他以威力使海洋动荡，以明智制伏了海怪。
13 7 With his angry breath he scatters the waters, and he hurls the lightning against them relentlessly; His hand pierces the fugitive dragon as from his hand it strives to flee.
他一嘘气，天气清朗；他亲手戳穿了飞龙。
14 Lo, these are but the outlines of his ways, and how faint is the word we hear!
看啊！这只是他行动的边端，我们所听到的只是些细微的事！他轰轰烈烈的作为，有谁能明了？
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Footnotes（注解）
1 [1-14] Probably to be read as Job's reply to Bildad's short speech. Some, however, would make it the reply to Zophar (Job 27:13-21); it would thus lead up to the poem of Job 28.
2 [5] Shades: the dead in Sheol, the nether world; cf Psalm 6:6; 88:11.
3 [6] Nether world: cf note to Psalm 6:6. Abaddon: Hebrew for "(place of) destruction," a synonym for nether world; cf Job 28:22; Rev 9:11.
4 [7] The North: used here as a synonym for the firmament, the heavens; cf Isaiah 14, 13.
5 [10] Circle: the horizon of the ocean which serves as the boundary for the activity of light and darkness.
6 [12] Rahab: cf Job 9:13; see note on Psalm 89:11.
7 [13] The fugitive dragon: the same term occurs in Isaiah 27:1 in apposition to Leviathan; see note on Job 3:8. This is actually Job 27:22.