约伯记生命读经 · 第7篇

约伯与他三友之间三回辩论的第一回四至十一章（三）比勒达的反驳

The First of the Three Rounds in the Debates Between Job and his Three Friends Chapters 4—11 (3) Bildad's Rebuttal

1读经：约伯记八章。在我们来看八章比勒达的反驳之前，我要再说一点六至七章里约伯的自我表白。约伯在这两章的自我表白乃是全书的摘要，整卷约伯记事实上是一种表白。约伯表白自己时，陈述他的苦况，向神挑战，责怪他的朋友，自以为义，并表示他对人生的虚空和结局有常识。约伯向神和他的朋友挑战，要他们给他一个答案。事实上，整卷约伯记成了许多基督徒一个极需解答的大问题。我们将会看见，所需要的答案不是在约伯记，而是在新约里。

1Scripture Reading: Job 8 Before we come to Bildad's rebuttal in chapter eight, I would like to say something further concerning Job's self- vindication in chapters six and seven. Job's vindication of himself in these chapters is an extract of the whole book. The entire book of Job is actually a kind of vindication. As he vindicated himself, Job stated his grievances, challenged God, blamed his friends, justified himself, and expressed that he had the common knowledge of the vanity and end of human life. Job was challenging God and his friends to give him an answer. Actually, the entire book of Job, which has become a big problem to many Christians, needs an answer. As we will see, the needed answer is found not in the book of Job but in the New Testament

2约伯陈述他的苦况，说愿他的苦恼称一称，他的灾害也一同放在天平里，（六２，）之后就向神挑战，要知道神对他有多少要求。约伯似乎在说，『神阿，我已经作了你所要求我作的事。你还要甚么？你要我如何，你要我作甚么？』我们来到九章那里，看见约伯要求一个机会，好在『法庭』上，在神面前陈明他的『案件』，他作原告，神作被告。然而，约伯认为神会胜诉，因为神是全能智慧的。因此，约伯觉得没有路脱离他的光景。约伯向神挑战后，就转向他的朋友，责怪他们不向他这个在神击打下灰心的人表示慈爱。约伯似乎对他们说，『你们的方式不对。你们责备我、定罪我、藐视我。这不是爱，也不是恩慈。我需要一个方向。你们该告诉我方向在那里，告诉我该怎么走，该怎么作。』

2After stating his grievances, longing for his vexation to be weighed and his ruin to be lifted onto the scales together with it (6:2), Job challenged God concerning how much God would require of him. Job seemed to be saying, "God, I have done what You have required me to do. What else do You want? What do You want me to be, and what do You want me to do? Because You did not tell me these things, I am puzzled." When we come to chapter nine, we will see that Job wanted an opportunity to present his "case" before God in "court," with himself as the plaintiff and God as the defendant. However, Job expected that God, who is almighty and wise, would win the case. As a result, Job felt that he had no way out of his situation. After challenging God, Job turned to his friends, blaming them for not showing kindness to him, who was fainting under the striking of God. Job seemed to be saying to them, "Your way is not right. You reprove me, condemn me, and despise me. This is not love, and this is not kindness. I need direction. You should tell me what my direction should be. Tell me where I should go and what I should do

3接著约伯转向自己，自以为义，说他在任何事上都没有错。他表示他对人生的奋斗、虚空、困苦、患难、和结局有常识。关于这点，他觉得他知道的比他的朋友多。最后约伯说，他厌弃生命，又表示不再对生命有任何兴趣。因为他的处境没有解答，所以约伯的结语是，他惟一能作的事就是死。

3Next Job turned to himself, justifying himself by saying that he was not wrong in anything. He expressed that he had the common knowledge of the struggle, the vanity, the trouble, the suffering, and the end of human life. Regarding this, he felt that he knew more than his friends did. Eventually, Job said that he loathed life and indicated that he no longer had any taste for life. Since there was no answer to his situation, Job concluded that the only thing for him to do was to die.

4约伯和他的朋友都在错误的领域里；他们都在善恶的领域，在提升人纯正的领域里。他们需要进到正确的领域，就是生命树的领域里；生命树才是他们的答案。约伯不该试著去达到纯正的高峰，他所需要的乃是竭力追求神，直接追求基督的人位。约伯的方向该朝向这高峰，不该朝向为人纯正的高峰。这是解答约伯和他的朋友，关于约伯受苦的目的这问题。

4Job and his friends were in the wrong realm. They were in the realm of good and evil, in the realm of promoting man's integrity. They needed to get into the right realm, the realm of the tree of life. They needed to come back to the tree of life. The tree of life was their answer. Instead of trying to attain to the peak of integrity, Job needed to do his best to pursue God, to pursue Christ the person directly. Job's direction should have been toward that peak, not toward the peak of human integrity. This is the answer to Job and his friends regarding the purpose of Job's sufferings

5现在我们来看八章比勒达对约伯的反驳。壹比勒达是第二个反驳约伯的人在约伯与他三友之间第一回的辩论中，第二个反驳约伯的是比勒达，他抱怨约伯说话太长，如同狂风。（八１～２。）比勒达的说话是反驳约伯的自我表白。

5Let us now go on to consider Bildad's rebuttal to Job in chapter eight. I. BILDAD BEING THE SECOND ONE TO REBUT JOB In the first round of the debates between Job and his friends, the second one to rebut Job was Bildad, who complained that Job's speaking was too long, like a mighty wind (8:1-2). Bildad's speaking was a rebuttal to Job's vindication of himself

贰宣称临到约伯的

II. CLAIMING THAT ALL THE DISASTERS AND THE PLAGUE ON JOB

一切灾祸和灾病，

不是神偏离了公平

WERE NOT GOD'S PERVERTING OF JUSTICE

6比勒达宣称临到约伯的一切灾祸和灾病，不是神偏离了公平，也不是全能者偏离了公义。（３。）比勒达暗示约伯定罪神，因约伯宣称神对他偏离了公平。比勒达告诉约伯，神绝不会这样作。

6Bildad claimed that all the disasters and the plague on Job were not God's perverting of justice or the Almighty's perverting of righteousness (v. 3). Bildad implied that Job had condemned God, claiming that God had perverted justice concerning him. Bildad told Job that God would never do such a thing

参认为约伯的儿女

III. THINKING THAT JOB'S CHILDREN

可能得罪了神

MIGHT HAVE SINNED AGAINST GOD

7比勒达认为约伯的儿女也许得罪了神，神就将他们交在他们过犯的手中。（４。）平心而论，比勒达说这话可能有某些根据，因为约伯的儿女是在筵宴喝酒时死亡的。

7Bildad thought that Job's children might have sinned against God and that God delivered them into the hand of their transgression (v. 4). To be fair, Bildad might have had some ground to say this, since Job's children were killed while they were feasting and drinking wine

8IV. BELIEVING THAT IF JOB SOUGHT GOD EARNESTLY

肆相信如果约伯热切的寻求神，向全能者恳求；如果约伯纯洁正直，神就必定为约伯起来

and made supplication unto the Almighty and if Job was pure and upright

GOD WOULD ROUSE HIMSELF FOR HIM

9比勒达相信如果约伯热切的寻求神，向全能者恳求；如果约伯纯洁正直，神就必定为约伯起来，使约伯公义的居所（包括他的家）恢复兴旺；约伯起初虽然微小，终久必甚昌大。（５～７。）我们很难说比勒达所说的纯洁正直，标准是甚么，他的说话乃是照著善恶知识树。比勒达说话的时候，善恶知识树就生长。

9Bildad believed that if Job sought God earnestly and made supplication unto the Almighty, and if Job was pure and upright, then surely God would rouse Himself for him and restore well-being to his righteous habitation, including his family. Though his beginning was small, his end would be very great (vv. 5-7). It is hard to say what was Bildad's standard of purity and uprightness. His speaking was according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. While Bildad was speaking, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was growing

伍教导约伯要考问前代

V. TEACHING JOB TO INQUIRE

OF THE FORMER GENERATIONS

10比勒达接著教导约伯要考问前代，注意他们列祖所查究的，好叫他们指教约伯。（８～１０。）比勒达的话满了不尊重和藐视。

10Bildad went on to teach Job to inquire of the former generations and to attend to what their fathers had sought out, that they might teach him (vv. 8-10). Bildad'sword was full of disrespect and despising

VI. WARNING JOB

THAT ALL WHO FORGET GOD

陆警告约伯，凡忘记神的人，要像蒲草和芦荻一样枯槁

WITHER LIKE PAPYRUS AND REEDS

11比勒达警告约伯，凡忘记神的人，要像蒲草和芦荻一样枯槁。他说，冒渎人的指望要灭没，他所倚赖的必被剪除，他所信靠的是蜘蛛网。他倚靠房屋，房屋却站立不住；他抓住房屋，房屋却不能存留。（１１～１９。）这不是有学问之人的说话，而是幼稚、愚妄、在黑暗里之人的说话。

11Bildad warned Job that all who forget God wither like papyrus and reeds. He said that the hope of the profane perishes, whose confidence is cut off and whose trust is a spider's web. He leans upon his house, but it will not stand. He holds fast to it, but it will not endure (vv. 11-19). This was the speaking not of a learned person but of one who was childish, foolish, and in darkness

VII. DECLARING TO JOB THAT

柒向约伯宣告，神必不丢弃完全的人

GOD WILL NOT REJECT A PERFECT MAN

12比勒达继续向约伯宣告，神必不丢弃完全的人，也不扶助作恶的人。比勒达说，神还要以喜笑充满约伯的口，以欢呼充满约伯的嘴。恨恶约伯的要披戴惭愧；恶人的帐棚，必归于无有。（２０～２２。）比勒达在这里又说空洞的话。

12Bildad continued by declaring to Job that God will not reject a perfect man, nor will He support evildoers. God, Bildad said, would fill Job's mouth with laughter and his lips with shouting. Those who hated Job would be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked would be no more (vv. 20-22). Once again, Bildad spoke vain words

13捌比勒达对人与神关系的逻辑，完全是在善恶知识树的原则里比勒达对人与神关系的逻辑，更是建立在善恶、对错之上，完全是在善恶知识树的原则里，全然是照著堕落之人属人道德的观念。在他的反驳里，没有在神圣启示里得亮光的滋味，也没有在神圣生命里属灵的味道。他完全是在黑暗里，在人道德的虚妄里。他的反驳完全无力说服约伯；在对神的事上，约伯高过他同时代的人。

13VIII. BILDAD'S LOGIC CONCERNING MAN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD BEING ABSOLUTELY IN THE PRINCIPLE OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL Bildad's logic concerning man's relationship with God was even the more built upon good and evil, right and wrong, absolutely in the principle of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, altogether according to the human, ethical concept of fallen man. In his rebuttal there was no flavor of being enlightened in the divine revelation and no taste of being spiritual in the divine life. He was altogether in darkness and in the vanity of man's ethics. His rebuttal was utterly powerless to convince Job, who was higher in things concerning God than his contemporaries.

14虽然约伯在这样的事上较比勒达高，比勒达却责备他、警告他、教导他、教育他，还给他一些指导。比勒达敢这样作，是因为他在黑暗里。约伯敢向神挑战，也是在黑暗里；这就给他的朋友开路，在黑暗里说话。因此，约伯和他的朋友都是在黑暗里。

14Even though Job was higher in such things than he was, Bildad presumed to rebuke him, to warn him, to teach him, to educate him, and to give him instructions. Bildad could do this because he was in darkness. Job was also in darkness, daring to challenge God, and this opened the way for his friends to speak in darkness. Thus, both Job and his friends were in darkness