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约伯记生命读经 · 第21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（四）约伯对三友末了的讲论（二）
Chapters 21—31 (4) Job's Final Speaking To His Three Friends (2
1读经：约伯记二十九至三十章。
1Scripture Reading: Job 29—30
2在本篇信息中，我们要继续来看约伯对三友末了的讲论。
2In this message we will continue to consider Job's final speaking to his three friends
陆 思念他美好的过去
VI. DWELLING ON HIS EXCELLENT PAST
3二十九章记载约伯思念他美好的过去。他回想在壮年的时候，神眷临他帐棚之上，亲密的指教他；全能者与他同在，他的儿女都环绕他。他记得他拯救哀求的困苦人，和无人帮助的孤儿。他也使寡妇心中欢乐。因此约伯能彀宣告：『我以公义为衣穿上；以公平为外袍和华冠。』（１４。）约伯继续说，在他美好的过去里，他为瞎子的眼，瘸子的脚，穷乏人的父。别人听他的指教；他说话之后，他们就不再说。约伯为他们选择道路，又坐首位，『如君王在军队中居住，又如那安慰哀伤者的人。』（２５。）柒为他悲惨的现况叹息约伯思念他美好的过去之后，在三十章就为他悲惨的现况叹息。约伯说，比他年少的人嘲笑他，以他为笑谈，厌恶他，远远躲避他，在他面前放纵不羁。惊恐临到他，他的福禄如云过去；他的魂倾倒出来，困苦的日子将他抓住。约伯接著说，他呼求神，神却不应允他。照著约伯的感觉，神变得以残忍待他。约伯对祂说，『我知道你要领我到死地，到那为众生所定的阴宅。』（２３。）约伯也叹息，他仰望得好处，灾祸就到了；他等待亮光，黑暗便来了。约伯最后说，他的心肠烦扰不安，困苦的日子临到他身；他的琴音变为悲音，他的箫声变为哭声。这里我们看见约伯受苦的图画。
3Chapter twenty-nine is a record of Job's dwelling on his excellent past. He recalled the days of his prime when the intimate counsel with God was over his tent, the Almighty was with him, and his children were around him. He remembered that he delivered the poor man who cried out and the orphan who had no one to help him. He also made the widow ' she art shout for joy. Thus Job could declare, "I put on righteousness, and it clothed me;/My justice was like a robe and a turban" (v. 14). Job went on to say that, in his excellent past, he was eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, and a father to the needy. Others listened to his counsel, and after his words they did not speak again. Job chose the way for them and sat as chief, dwelling " as a king among the troops, / As one who comforts those who mourn" (v. 25). VII. SIGHING OVER HIS MISERABLE PRESENT After dwelling on his excellent past, Job in chapter thirty sighed over his miserable present. Job said that those who were younger than he held him in derision and that others made him a byword, abhorred him, and stood aloof from him, casting off restraint in his presence. Next, Job said that terrors had turned upon him, that his prosperity had passed away like a cloud, that his soul was poured out within him, and that days of affliction had taken hold of him. Job continued by saying that he cried to God, but God did not answer him. According to Job's feeling, God had turned to become cruel to him. Job said to Him, "I know that You will bring me into death,/And to the house appointed for all living" (v. 23). Job also sighed over the fact that when he expected good, evil came, and when he waited for light, darkness came. Job concluded by saying that his inward parts were in turmoil, that days of affliction had drawn near to him, and that his harp had become mourning and his pipe, the voice of those who weep. Here we see a picture of Job's sufferings.
4约伯不知道他受苦的原因，但今天我们知道。不错，约伯是受苦，但他的受苦乃是神所允许的，为著一个目的：神要取去他一切的成就。约伯在物质上和道德上都非常成功。他达到了极高的完全和正直，那是他的纯正，他也以此为傲。约伯认为他的完全和纯正，就像遮盖他的外袍，和给他荣耀的华冠。（二九１４。）然而，神把这些都取去，为要叫约伯不追求其他的事物，只追求神；但约伯不明白。他认为他是对的，神错待了他。因此，他希望有机会在神面前陈明他的案件。从这里我们看见，约伯完全是在另一个领域里，这领域与神的愿望相反。至终约伯承认他已过只是『风闻有神』。（四二５上。）他听过神、相信神，却不曾见过神。但藉著这一切的剥夺和消毁，到了一个时候，他亲眼看见了神。（５下。）马太五章八节说，『清心的人有福了，因为他们必看见神。』在这里，看见神是国度里的一大赏赐。照著新约清楚的异象，看见神就是把神接受到我们里面。如果看见神只是客观的看见，而没有别的，那就没有甚么意义。但是看见神乃是接受神，这意思就是神进到我们里面，作我们的元素，来更新我们、变化我们，因为神进来就将神圣的元素加到我们这人里面。这神圣的元素在我们身上，并在我们里面作工，为要更新我们，除去我们一切老旧的元素。至终，我们的全人就变成新的。这就是变化。
4Job did not understand the reason for his sufferings, but today we know the reason. It was true that Job suffered, but his suffering was allowed by God for a purpose. God wanted to take away all his successes. Job was very successful, both materially and ethically. He had attained to a very high degree of perfection and uprightness. That was his integrity, and he was proud of it. Job considered his perfection and integrity as a robe to cover him and as a turban to glorify him (29:14). However, God took these away in order that Job would pursue God Himself instead of other things, yet Job did not understand. He thought that he was right and that God had done something wrong toward him. Therefore, he was hoping to have an opportunity to present his case before God. From this we can see that Job was altogether in another realm, one which was contrary to God's desire. Eventually, Job recognized that he had known God only "by the hearing of the ear" (42:5a). He had heard about God and he had believed in God, but he had never seen God. However, through all the strippings and consumings, the time came when Job saw God (42:5b). Matthew 5:8 says, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Here, seeing God is a great reward in the kingdom. According to the clear view in the New Testament, to see God is to receive God into us. If seeing God is merely an objective seeing of God and nothing else, that means very little. But seeing God is to receive God, and this means that God comes into us as our element to renew us, to transform us, because God's coming in adds the divine element into our being. This divine element works on us and in us to renew us, discharging all our old element. Eventually, our entire being becomes new. This is transformation
5林后三章十八节说，『我们众人既然以没有帕子遮蔽的脸，好像镜子观看并返照主的荣光，就渐渐变化成为与祂同样的形像，从荣耀到荣耀，乃是从主灵变化成的。』我们首先观看神，就是看见神；然后就返照祂，而被变化。我们看见神时，就渐渐变化成为祂荣耀的形像，从一种程度的荣耀到另一种程度的荣耀。这变化乃是从主灵来的。
5Second Corinthians 3:18 says, "We all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit." First we behold God, that is, see God; then we reflect Him and are transformed. In our seeing God we are being transformed into His glorious image, from one degree of glory to another. This is from the Lord Spirit
6约伯所看见的神也是灵，但那时的神还是在祂原来的状态中。神有神圣的元素及其神圣的属性，但没有成为肉体、人性、和人性生活的元素。照著林后三章十八节，我们今天所观看的这一位神却大不相同，因为祂在成分上是更丰富了。因此，我们越观看祂，就越接受祂的成分到我们里面，作我们里面的供应，在我们身上作工，除去旧的元素，使我们成为新的。这就是将我们变化成为神的形像。
6The God whom Job saw was also the Spirit, but at that time God was still in His original state. God had His divine element with His divine attributes, but He did not have anything related to incarnation, humanity, and human living. According to 2 Corinthians 3:18, the God whom we are looking at today is different, for He is much richer in His ingredients. Hence, the more we look at Him, the more we receive His ingredients into our being as our inner supply to work on us, to discharge the old, and to make us new. This is to transform us into God'sim age.
7看见神应该产生一个结果，就是使我们全人变化成为神的形像。我不相信约伯看见神时，有这种体会。他的受苦的确产生一个结果，就是他看见了神；但我们很难说约伯是怎样看见神的，是肉眼的见神还是得著属灵的启示。今天我们观看神完全是在灵里的事。我们所观看的这一位神，乃是终极完成的灵；我们能彀看见祂，乃是在我们的灵里。有时我们太忙或太轻忽，就没有抓住机会观看主。我们早上晨兴，虽然只有十五或二十分钟，那也是与主同在，留在灵里的时间。在这段时间里，我们可以祷读主话，与祂谈话，用简短的话向祂祷告。这样我们就有一个感觉，我们是在那里接受神的元素，吸收神的丰富到我们里面。这样我们就逐日在神圣的变化之下。
7Seeing God should issue in the transformation of our being into God'sim age. I do not believe Job had such a realization when he saw God. It is a fact that his sufferings did issue in one thing—he saw God. It is hard to say, however, in what way Job saw God, whether in a physical way or in the way of a spiritual revelation. Our way of looking at God today is altogether a matter in the spirit. The God whom we may look at is the consummated Spirit, and we can look at Him in our spirit. Sometimes we are too busy or too careless to take the opportunity to look at the Lord. In our morning watch, even if only for fifteen or twenty minutes, we have time to be with the Lord, time to remain in the Spirit. At such a time we may pray- read His word, talk to Him, or pray to Him with short prayers. Then we will have the sense that we are receiving something of God's element, that we are absorbing the riches of God into our being. In this way we are under the divine transformation day by day
8我们基督徒的生活，不是仅仅有外面的改变，乃是从里面被变化，有神圣的元素加到我们全人里面，来顶替我们旧的元素。这完全是藉著我们观看这位经过过程并终极完成的神，就是包罗万有的灵。我们读了约伯在三十章末了的话，就能彀领悟，约伯和他的朋友乃是走在善恶知识树的路上。他们所在的范围，不是要竭力的看见神，要从神有所学习，特别是接受神，好叫他们被神的元素和素质所变化，而在生命和性情上成为与神一样。我们都需要在约伯和他的朋友所走的路，和新约所启示的路之间，看见一个清楚的对比。
8Our Christian life is a life not of changing outwardly but of being transformed from within by having the divine element added into our inner being to replace our old element. This is altogether by our looking at the processed and consummated God, who is the all- inclusive Spirit. By reading Job's final word in chapter thirty, we can realize that Job and his friends were walking on the way of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They were not in the realm of endeavoring to see God in order to learn of Him and especially to receive Him so that they could be transformed with His element and essence to be made the same as God in life and in nature. We all need to see a clear comparison between the way taken by Job and his friends and the way revealed in the New Testament