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约伯记生命读经 · 第13篇

约伯与他三友之间

The Second of the Three Rounds in the Debates
三回辩论的第二回
Between Job and his Three Friends
十二至二十章（三）约伯拒绝他朋友的话，并在因神而产生的痛苦情形中，渴望神审断他的辩诉，以及比勒达的责备和警告
Chapters 12—20 (3) Job's Rejection of his Friends' Word and his Desire that God Would Adjudicate for him in his Case in the Painful Situation Caused by God and Bildad's Rebuke and Warning
1读经：约伯记十六至十八章。在本篇信息中，我们要来看十六至十八章。
1Scripture Reading: Job 16—18 In this message we will cover chapters sixteen through eighteen
壹 约伯拒绝他朋友的话，
I. Job's Rejection of his Friends' Word and
2并在因神而产生的痛苦情形中，渴望神审断他的辩诉
2his Desire that God Would Adjudicate for him in his Case
一 约伯拒绝他朋友的话
in the Painful Situation Caused by God
A. His Rejection of His Friends' Word
3照著十六章一至六节，约伯拒绝他朋友的话。虽然约伯的朋友来看他，目的是要安慰他，他却把他们看作『叫人愁烦的安慰者』，并说他们的话是『虚空如风的言语』。他问他们：『有甚么惹动你如此回答呢？』（３下。）答案该是他们受了善恶知识树的惹动。在四至五节约伯继续说，『我也能像你们那样说话，如果你们的心情处在我心情的景遇；我就会联络言语攻击你们，向你们摇头。我能用口坚固你们，用唇消除你们的忧愁。』约伯看见他朋友的话都是虚空，所以拒绝他们的话。二约伯在因神而产生的痛苦情形中，
3According to 16:1-6 Job rejected his friends' word. Although Job's friends had come to him for the purpose of comforting him, he regarded them as "troubling comforters," and he called their words "words of wind." He asked them, "What has provoked you that you so respond?" (v. 3b). The answer is that they were provoked by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In verses 4 and 5 Job continued, "I also could speak like you,/If your soul were in my soul's stead;/I could join my words together against you / And shake my head at you. /I could strengthen you with my mouth,/And the movement of my lips would mitigate your pain." Job realized that his friends' word was vanity, and he rejected it. B. His Desire That God Would Adjudicate for Him in
渴望神审断他的辩诉
his Case in the Painful Situation Caused by God
4在因神而产生的痛苦情形中，约伯所渴望的，乃是神审断他的辩诉。（十六７～十七１６。）１埋怨神使他困倦，
4It was Job's desire that God would adjudicate for him in his case in the painful situation caused by God (16:7—17:16). 1. Complaining That God Had Worn Him Out
遗弃他一切的友伴
and Had Desolated All His Company
5约伯埋怨神说，虽然他的手中没有强暴，他的祈祷也是纯洁，神却使他困倦，遗弃他一切的友伴。（十六７～１７。）约伯甚至说，神撕裂他；把他交给不义的人，把他扔到恶人的手中；折断他，掐住他的颈项，把他摔碎；又立他为祂的箭靶子。所以约伯的脸因哭泣发红，在他的眼皮上有死荫。
5Job complained that God had worn him out and had desolated all his company, though there was no violence in his hands and his prayer was pure (16:7-17). Job went so far as to say that God had torn him to pieces, had delivered him over to the unjust and cast him down into the hands of the wicked, had broken him apart, had taken him by the neck and dashed him to pieces, and had set him up as His target. Thus, Job's face was reddened with weeping, and on his eyelids was the shadow of death.
２ 向地呼吁，不要遮盖他的血，不要拦阻他的呼吁
2. Crying to the Earth Not to Cover His Blood and Not to Frustrate His Crying Out
6约伯向地呼吁，不要遮盖他的血，不要拦阻他的呼吁。（１８。）他说，『现今看哪，在天有我的见证，在高处有我的中保。我的朋友讥诮我；我却向神眼泪汪汪，好使祂审断人与神的辩诉，并审19-断人与邻舍的辩诉。』（１９～２１。）这里我们看见，约伯不释放神，不放神过去。他表达他的渴望，希望神审断他的辩诉。约伯在这里的争辩，指明他盼望有机会向神陈明他的辩诉。
6Job cried to the earth not to cover his blood and not to frustrate his crying out (v. 18). Then he said, "Even now, behold, my Witness is in heaven,/And He who vouches for me is in the heights./My friends deride me;/My eye pours out tears to God,/That He would adjudicate for a man in his case with God / And for a son of man in his case with his neighbor" (vv. 21). Here we see that Job would not release God, that he would not let God go. Instead, Job expressed his desire that God would adjudicate for him in his case. Job's contending here indicates that he expected to have a time to plead with God concerning his case.
３ 说他的灵破碎，他的日子灭尽，
3. Saying That His Spirit Was Broken, That His Days Were Extinct
7坟墓为他豫备好了约伯说他的灵破碎，他的日子灭尽，坟墓为他豫备好了。（十七１。）约伯说，虽然他是正直公义的，越发刚强的持守所行的道，戏笑他的却惹动他。（２～１６。）在九节约伯宣告说，『然而义人要持守所行的道，手洁的人要越发刚强。』这里约伯是说，他是一个义人，持守所行的道。
7and That the Graveyard Was Ready for Him Job said that his spirit was broken, that his days were extinct, and that the graveyard was ready for him (17:1). Job went on to say that his mockers were provoking him, even though he was upright, righteous, and held fast to his way more strongly (vv. 2-16). In verse 9 Job declared, "Yet the righteous man will hold fast to his way,/And he whose hands are clean will wax yet stronger." Here Job was saying that he was a righteous man who held fast to his way
贰 比勒达的责备和警告
II. BILDAD'S REBUKE AND WARNING
8在十八章我们看见比勒达的责备和警告。
8In chapter eighteen we have Bildad's rebuke and warning
一 他的责备
A. His Rebuke
9比勒达责备约伯，（１～４，）问他寻索言语要到几时。接著，比勒达质问约伯：『我们为何算为畜牲，在你眼中看作污秽呢？』（３。）这指明约伯认为他的朋友像畜牲。比勒达继续问约伯，难道大地会为他见弃。
9In his rebuke of Job (vv. 1-4), Bildad asked him how long he would hunt for words. Then Bildad inquired of Job, "Why are we considered to be like beasts/ And have become unclean in your eyes?" (v. 3). This indicates that Job thought that his friends were like beasts. Bildad continued by asking Job if the earth would be forsaken for his sake
10二以恶人可悲的结局警告约伯
10B. His Warning with the Pitiful End of the Wicked
11十八章的其余篇幅记载比勒达以恶人可悲的结局警告约伯。比勒达宣告说，『恶人的亮光必要熄灭，他的火焰必不照耀。他帐棚中的光乃是黑暗，他以上的灯也必熄灭。』（５～６。）论到恶人，比勒达继续说，四面的惊吓使他害怕，他的力量必因饥饿衰竭，祸患在他旁边豫备好；他要从帐棚被拔出来，硫磺必撒在他所住之处；他的记念在地上必然灭亡；他必从光中被扔到黑暗里，必被赶出世界；在本民中必无子无孙。比勒达的结语是：『不义之人的住处，总是这样，此乃不认识神之人的地步。』（２１。）比勒达试著要劝告约伯，但他的话却是废话。他的逻辑和警告都是根据善恶的原则。
11The remainder of chapter eighteen consists of Bildad's warning with the pitiful end of the wicked. Bildad declared, " Indeed the light of the wicked goes out, / And the flame of his fire does not shine./The light is darkness in his tent,/And his lamp above him goes out" (vv. 5-6). Regarding the wicked, Bildad went on to say that terrors frighten him all around, that his strength is famished, that calamity is prepared at his side, that he is rooted out of his tent, that brimstone is scattered upon his habitation, that the memory of him perishes from the earth, that he is thrust out from the light to the darkness and is driven from the world, and that he has no posterity and no progeny among his people. Then Bildad concluded, "Surely these are the dwellings of the unjust,/And this is the place of him who does not know God" (v. 21). Bildad tried to give advice, but his words were words of waste. His logic and his warning were based on the principle of good and evil.