约伯记生命读经 · 第20篇

约伯与他三友之间

The Third of the Three Rounds in the Debates

三回辩论的第三回

Between Job and his Three Friends

二十一至三十一章（三）约伯对三友末了的讲论（一）

Chapters 21—31 (3) Job's Final Speaking To His Three Friends (1

1读经：约伯记二十六至二十八章。在本篇信息中，我们要开始来看二十六至二十八章，约伯对三友末了的讲论。

1Scripture Reading: Job 26—28 In this message we will begin to consider, from chapters twenty-six through twenty-eight, Job's final speaking to his three friends

壹讥讽的斥责比勒达

I. REBUKING BILDAD SARCASTICALLY

2在二十六章一至四节约伯讥讽的斥责比勒达，说，『无能的人，蒙你何等的帮助！膀臂无力的人，蒙你何等的拯救！无智慧的人，蒙你何等的忠告！多蒙你告知好的知识。你曾向谁发出言语？谁的灵从你而出？』无疑的，这不是友善的话。约伯的三个朋友来看望他，目的是要安慰、支持他，但至终约伯和他的朋友都进到辩论里，彼此争论，甚至彼此攻击。他们的话没有属灵的亮光或实际，反而是照著善恶知识树的原则。约伯的朋友只有关于行善以取悦神、得著亨通这类事的知识。贰炫耀他对神无限能力的超越知识约伯责备比勒达后，就对他的朋友说到关于神显于创造的能力。约伯在这里的话，指明他有优越感。在五至十四节约伯炫耀他对神无限能力的超越知识。约伯说，在神面前阴间赤裸；神将大地悬在虚空，并将云铺在祂的宝座上；祂以能力平静大海，祂藉知识打伤拉哈伯（古时故事中所说的海怪）；藉祂的灵，使诸天华美。然后约伯作结论说，『看哪，这不过是神法则的末端；我们所听于祂的，是何等细微的声音！至于祂大能的雷声，谁能领会呢？』（１４。）约伯不需要向他的朋友炫耀知识，或对他的朋友这样说话。约伯和他的朋友之间的对话，不是我们从彼此关心的朋友所期望听到的。他们中间没有一个人题议要祷告并仰望主。

2In 26:1-4 Job rebuked Bildad sarcastically, saying, " How you have helped him who is without power! / How you have saved the arm of him who is without strength! / How you have counseled him who is without wisdom/And have plentifully declared sound knowledge!/To whom have you uttered words?/And whose spirit has come forth from you?" This surely was not a friendly word. Job'st hree friends had come to visit him for the purpose of comforting and supporting him, but eventually Job and his friends got into a debate, contending and even fighting with one another. Their words had no spiritual light or reality. Instead, their speaking was according to the principle of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Job's friends only had the knowledge about such matters as being good in order to please God and to receive prosperity. II. SHOWING OFF HIS SUPERIOR KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING THE UNLIMITED POWER OF GOD After rebuking Bildad, Job spoke to his friends regarding God's power as seen in His creation. Job's speaking here indicates that he had a superiority complex. In verses 5 through 14 Job showed off his superior knowledge concerning the unlimited power of God. Job said that Sheol is naked before God, that He hangs the earth upon nothing, that He spread His cloud over the face of His throne, that by His power He stilled the sea and by His understanding He struck down Rahab (a sea monster spoken of in ancient narratives), and that by His Spirit the heavens became beauty. Then Job concluded by saying, "Behold, these are but the fringes of His ways; / And how small a whisper do we hear of Him!/But as for the thundering of His mightiness, who can comprehend it?" (v. 14). There was no need for Job to show off his superior knowledge or to speak to his friends in this way. The conversation between Job and his friends is not what we would expect from friends who care for each other. No one among them suggested that they pray and look to the Lord.

III. HOLDING FAST INSISTENTLY

参坚持他的义与纯正

TO HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND INTEGRITY

3约伯在二十七章一至七节的言论给我们看见，他坚持他的义和纯正。他指著永活的神起誓，只要他的气息尚在他里面，他的嘴决不说错谬之言，他的舌也不说诡诈之语。然后他对他的朋友说，『我断不以你们为义！』（５上。）这里约伯是说，他绝不承认他的朋友是对的。接著，约伯用了强烈的措辞说到他的纯正和公义：『我至死必不摒弃我的纯正。我持定我的义，必不放松；在世的日子我心必不责备我。』（５下～６。）他这段言论的末了，是说到仇敌的话：『愿我的仇敌如恶人一样，愿那起来攻击我的，如不义之人一般。』（７。）约伯的思想是：他绝不会像其他的人一样不义。

3Job's discourse in 27:1-7 shows us that he held fast insistently to his righteousness and integrity. He declared that as God lives and as long as his breath was in him, his lips would not speak anything wrong nor would his tongue utter deceit. Then he said to his friends, "Far be it from me to declare you righteous!" (v. 5a). Here Job was saying that he would never admit that his friends were right. Following this, Job spoke a strong word about his integrity and righteousness: "Until I die, I will not put away my integrity from me./To my righteousness I will hold fast, I will not let it go;/My heart does not reproach me for any of my days" (vv. 5b-6). He finished this part of his discourse with a word regarding his enemy: "May my enemy be like a wicked man, /And may he who rises up against me be like someone unjust" (v. 7). Job's thought was that, unlike others, he would never be unjust

肆高傲的指教他的朋友

IV. TEACHING HIS FRIENDS HIGH-MINDEDLY

关于亵渎之人的指望

CONCERNING THE HOPE OF THE PROFANE MAN

4在八至二十三节，约伯继续高傲的指教他的朋友关于亵渎之人的指望。首先约伯问说，亵渎的人被神剪除，被神取去性命的时候，还有甚么指望。然后约伯带著优越的口气对他的朋友说，『神的作为，我要指教你们，全能者所有的，我也不隐瞒。』（１１。）之后约伯教导他的朋友关于恶人从神所得的分。说到恶人，约伯宣称其儿女倘若增多，还是被刀所杀；他所遗留的人，必死而埋葬；他的衣服，义人要穿上；他的银子，无辜的人要分取；惊恐如众水将他追上；神要向他射箭，并不留情；人要发叱声，使他离开本处。约伯不需要说这样的话。这些话没有光、生命、爱或恩慈，充其量不过是一种警告的教训。他的朋友没有一个人需要这种教训；他们已经知道这些事，也能彀指教这些事。然而，因著他的优越感，他竟高傲的指教他的朋友。伍炫耀他关于寻求智慧与明达之路的高调知识

4In verses 8 through 23 Job continued by teaching his friends high - mindedly concerning the hope of the profane man. First, Job asked about the hope of the profane man when God cuts him off, taking away his soul and not hearing his cry. Then Job, having a superiority complex, said to his friends, "I will teach you about the hand of God;/What is with the Almighty I will not conceal " (v. 11). After this, Job went on to instruct his friends regarding the portion which the wicked man would receive from the Almighty. Concerning the wicked, Job claimed that his children will be multiplied for the sword, that those who remain of him will be buried in death, that the righteous will wear his garments and that the innocent will divide his silver, that terrors will overtake him like waters, that God will hurl at him and not spare, and that men will hiss him out of his place. There was no need for Job to speak a word such as this. This was a word with no light, life, love, or kindness. At best, this was a teaching as a kind of warning. However, none of his friends needed this teaching; they already knew these things and could have taught concerning them. Nevertheless, due to his superiority complex, he taught his friends in a high-minded manner. V. SHOWING OFF HIS HIGH - PITCHED KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING THE WAY TO FIND

WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING

5在二十八章约伯继续炫耀他关于寻求智慧与明达之路的高调知识。约伯两次问道，智慧何处可寻，明达之处在那里。（１２，２０。）然后他说，神明白智慧的道路，晓得智慧的所在；因祂鉴察直到地极，观普天之下。（２３～２４。）因此，神对人说，『看哪，敬畏主就是智慧，远离恶便是明达。』（２８。）约伯的朋友当然知道要敬畏神，远离恶事。每一个敬虔的人都知道；不需要约伯重复。然而，约伯这样说，因为他是高傲的，认为在知识上，他比他的朋友更优越。

5In chapter twenty-eight Job went on to show off his high-pitched knowledge concerning the way to find wisdom and understanding. Job twice asked where wisdom can be found and where the place of understanding is (vv. 12, 20). Then he said that God, who sees to the ends of the earth and beholds all that is under heaven, knows the place of wisdom and the way to it (vv. 23-24). Thus, God said to man, "Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;/And to depart from evil is understanding" (v. 28). Surely Job's friends already knew about fearing the Lord and departing from evil. Every godly person knew this; there was no need for Job to repeat it. However, Job spoke in this way because he was high-minded and thought that in knowledge he was superior to his friends