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约伯记生命读经 · 第9篇

约伯与他三友之间三回辩论的第二回十二至二十章(一)

The Second of the Three Rounds in the Debates Between Job and his Three Friends Chapters 12—20 (1
1约伯的优越感、指责、和辩论以及以利法的责备和警告(一)
1Job's Superiority Complex, Accusation, and Arguments
2读经:约伯记十二至十三章。
2and Eliphaz's Rebuke and Warning (1
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3Scripture Reading: Job 12—13
4在本篇信息中,我们要来看约伯对他朋友的优越感、指责,并与神的辩论。在这之后有以利法的责备和警告。
4In this message we will begin to consider Job's superiority complex, accusation against his friends, and arguments with God. This is followed by Eliphaz's rebuke and warning
壹 约伯的优越感、指责和辩论
I. JOB'S SUPERIORITY COMPLEX, ACCUSATION, AND ARGUMENTS
一 约伯在认识神之事上的优越感
A. Job's Superiority Complex in the Matter of Knowing God
5在十二章一节至十三章二节,我们看见约伯在认识神之事上的优越感。1宣称他并非不及他的朋友
5In 12:1—13:2 we see Job's superiority complex in the matter of knowing God. 1. Claiming That He Was Not Inferior to His Friends
6约伯自认是向神呼求的公义完全人,宣称他并非不及那些讥笑他的朋友;他们是安逸的人,心里藐视灾祸,不知道强盗的帐棚兴旺,也不知道那些惹动神、手中带著自己神的人稳固。(十二1~6。)这话指出他的朋友所说因行善兴旺并因行恶受苦的论点,乃是他们的臆测而已。
6Considering himself the righteous man, the perfect man, who called out to God, Job claimed that he was not inferior to his friends, who had made him a laughingstock. They were at ease and contemned calamity, not knowing that the tents of robbers prosper and that those who provoke God and carry their god in their own might have security (12:1-6). This word is about the supposed prosperity in doing good and suffering in doing evil
2 藐视他的朋友,要他们向走兽、飞鸟、地、和鱼学习
2. Contemning His Friends and Asking Them to Learn of the Beasts, of the Birds, of the Earth, and of the Fish
7约伯藐视他的朋友,要他们向走兽、空中的飞鸟、地、和海中的鱼学习,这一切都知道牠们是耶和华作成的,凡活物的生命,和人类的灵,都在祂手中;但约伯的朋友不如那试验言语的耳朵,不如那尝食物的上膛。(7~11。)
7Job contemned his friends and asked them to learn of the beasts, of the birds of heaven, of the earth, and of the fish of the sea, all of which know that Jehovah made them and that in His hand is the life of every living thing and the spirit of all flesh of man. Yet his friends were inferior to the ear that tries words and to the palate that tastes food (vv. 7-11
3 夸自己的优越,和对神更宽广的认识
3. Boasting of His Superior and Broader Knowledge of God
8最后,约伯夸自己的优越,和对神更宽广的认识。(十二12~十三2。)约伯宣称在神有智慧和能力;神管治地上所发生的事,治理邦国,使邦国昌大而又毁灭。他在十二章十二至二十五节的话,指明他的知识相当渊博。接著约伯对他的朋友作结论说,『看哪,这一切我眼都见过,我耳都听过,而且明白。你们所知道的,我也知道;并非不及你们。』(十三1~2。)这话当然是约伯优越感的标记。
8Finally, Job boasted of his superior and broader knowledge of God (12:12 — 13:2). Job declared that with God are wisdom and might, that God controls what happens on earth, and that God rules over the nations, making nations great and destroying them. His speaking in 12:12-25 indicates that he was quite knowledgeable. Then as a concluding word he said to his friends, "Behold, my eye has seen all this;/My ear has heard and understood it./What you know, I also know;/I am not inferior to you" (13:1-2). This surely is a sign of Job's superiority complex.
二 约伯指责他的朋友是虚谎的
B. Job'sA cc using His Friends of Being False
9在十三章四至十九节,约伯指责他的朋友是虚谎的。他称他们是粉饰谎言的,都是无用的医生;惟愿他
9In 13:4-19 Job accused his friends of being false. He called them plasterers of lies and physicians of no value and urged them to be silent (vv. 4-5
10们全然不作声。(4~5。)
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三 约伯与神的辩论
C. Job's Arguments with God
11在十三章三节,二十节至十四章二十二节,我们看见约伯与神的辩论。在十三章三节他宣告说,『我
11In 13:3, 20—14:22 we have Job's arguments with God. In 13:3 he declared, "I would speak to the Almighty,/ And I desire to argue with God
12要对全能者说话,我愿与神理论。』
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1 约伯为自己的情形向神分诉
1. Job's Contention with God for His Case
13在十三章二十至二十八节,约伯为自己的情形向神分诉。约伯在二十八节题到他自己,说,『这样的人像灭绝的烂物,像虫蛀的衣裳。』一面约伯承认他是会灭绝的烂物,另一面约伯仍觉得他在任何事上都没有错。约伯知道神窥察他一切的道路,为他的脚掌画定界限,(27,)所以他要神向他有所解释。我们曾指出,约伯虽然相信在神的心里藏著一个目的,却不知道神对他的目的为何。圣经包括六十六卷书,从创世记神和祂的创造开始,终极完成于启示录的新耶路撒冷;在这两端之间,有许多的历史、教训、豫言和豫表。我们若只照著这些事来明白圣经,就仍不认识圣经。我们需要看见,神永远的经纶,就是神永远的目的和祂的心愿,乃是要把祂自己在祂神圣的三一里,就是父在子里,藉著灵,分赐到祂所拣选的人里面,作他们的生命、性情,使他们能彀与祂一样,好成为祂的丰满,作祂的彰显。
13In 13:20-28 Job contended with God for his case. In verse 28, referring to himself, Job said, "Such a one is like some rotten thing that wastes away,/Like a garment eaten by moths." On the one hand, Job recognized that he was something rotten, something that would waste away. On the other hand, Job continued to feel that he was not wrong in anything. Realizing that God had marked his paths and had set limits for him (v. 27), Job wanted God to explain the situation to him. As we have pointed out, Job did not know God's purpose concerning him, although he believed that there was a purpose hidden in God'she art. The Bible, which consists of sixty - six books, begins with God and His creation in Genesis and consummates with the New Jerusalem in Revelation. Between these two ends of the Bible, there are history, teachings, prophecies, and types. But if we understand the Bible only according to these things, we still do not know the Bible. We need to see the eternal economy of God, which is God's eternal intention with His heart's desire to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity as the Father in the Son by the Spirit into His chosen people to be their life and nature that they may be the same as He is for His fullness, His expression.
14『经纶』一辞源自希腊字,奥依克诺米亚,意为家庭律法,家庭管理,家庭行政,引伸为行政的安排,计画,经纶。这个希腊字含示分赐的观念。分赐dispensing与时代dispensation不同。分赐指分授某样东西,而时代指神在特定的时代对付祂子民的方式,如基督徒一般所用的意义。今天许多基督徒谈论神的时代,却没有看见神的经纶这件重要的事。经纶是为著分赐而执行一项计画的安排。神的经纶是神的计画、神的安排,要把祂自己,祂的元素、生命、性情、属性,以及祂所完成、所达到的一切,都分赐到祂所拣选的人里面,使他们能由神圣的素质,在神圣源头的神圣元素里被构成,重新被建立,而成为神圣的。我们在接受神的分赐之前,仅仅是属人的;神用神圣的构成重新建立我们之后,我们就像主耶稣一样,在人性里带著神性,也在神性里带著人性。基督在成为肉体之前只有神性,但在成为肉体之后成了神人,就是带著神性的人。现今祂在人性里带著神性,也在神性里带著人性。我们藉基督得了重生,成为祂的一部分,因此也与祂一样,在人性里带著神性,也在神性里带著人性。重生的人在人性里带著神性,又在神性里带著人性,自然而然的成了一个生机体,就是基督的身体;基督的身体就是神的召会,神新造里的新人,要完成神的新『事业』,就是建造基督的身体,作三一神的丰满和彰显。这丰满乃是三一神的生机体,要终极完成于新耶路撒冷。圣经开始于神在祂的创造里,这乃是起初,而结束于新耶路撒冷,就是三一神和祂所拣选、救赎、重生、变化、模成、并荣化之三部分人的调和。因此,新耶路撒冷乃是神和人的一个构成,要彰显神,直到永永远远。
14The word economy is an anglicized form of the Greek word oikonomia, which means "house law, household oikonomia management, or administration, " and derivatively, " administrative dispensation (arrangement), plan, economy. " This Greek word implies the not i on of dispensing. A dispensing is different from a dispensation. The word dispensing denotes an imparting of something, whereas the word dispensation, as it is commonly used by Christians, refers to the way God deals with people during a particular age. Today many talk about God's dispensations without seeing the crucial matter of God's dispensing. An economy is an arrangement to carry out a plan for dispensing. God'secon o my is God's plan, God's arrangement, for God to dispense Himself in His element, life, nature, and attributes, and all that He has achieved and attained into His chosen people that they may be rebuilt by being constituted with the divine essence in the divine element of the divine source to be something divine. Before receiving God's dispensing, we were merely human. After God's rebuilding with the divine constitution we, like the Lord Jesus, become divinely human and humanly divine. Before incarnation Christ was only divine, but after His incarnation He became a God - man, a man with the divine nature. Now He is divinely human, and He is also humanly divine. Having been regenerated by Christ, we have become a part of Him, and now we are the same as He is—divinely human and humanly divine. The regenerated ones, who are divinely human and humanly divine, spontaneously become an organism, the Body of Christ, which is the church of God as the new man in God ' snew creation to carry out God's new "career," that is, to build up the Body of Christ for the fullness, the expression, of the Triune God. This fullness as the organism of the Triune God will consummate in the New Jerusalem. The Bible begins with God in His creation as the initiation and ends with the New Jerusalem, which is the mingling of the Triune God and all His chosen, redeemed, regenerated, transformed, conformed, and glorified tripartite people. The New Jerusalem is thus a constitution of God with man to express God for eternity.
15这样的看见,就是对整本圣经的一个概览。我们读圣经时,必须将我们的注意力集中在神那为著神圣分赐的永远经纶。除非我们认识神的经纶,否则我们就无法明白圣经。
15To see this is to have an overview of the entire Bible. In our reading of the Bible, we need to focus our attention on God's eternal economy for the divine dispensing. Unless we know God'secon o my we will not understand the Bible.
16基督不仅是圣经的中心,也是神经纶的中心和普及。在这经纶中,基督来成为肉体,上十字架,经过钉死;从死里出来,进入复活;在复活里,祂从神而生,成为神的长子,并且祂这末后的亚当成了赐生命的灵,来重生祂所有的信徒,使他们在生命和性情上与祂一样,成为祂的众弟兄,作神的众子。这些神的众子,加上神的长子,就成了一个新人,以基督作头,召会为身体,来完成神永远的定旨,终极完成于新耶路撒冷。我们若看见这个关于神经纶的启示,就能彀明白约伯记。约伯受神的剥夺和销毁,却不明白发生在他身上的事。约伯只能说,『然而这些事早已藏在你心里;我知道你久有此意。』(十13。)他知道神有一个目的,却不知道神的目的是甚么。约伯和他三个朋友-以利法、比勒达和琐法,都是在善恶知识树的范围里。约伯的水平虽然比他的朋友高一点,但仍和他们在同一个范围里。神要把他们从那个范围里拯救出来,摆到生命树的范围里。神头一件必须作的事,就是把约伯剥夺、销毁、拆毁,使他在受苦之下一无所有。这成为一个基础,使神能用神圣的三一把约伯重新建立起来,使约伯能成为一个新人,神新造的一部分,来完成神永远的经纶,使神得著彰显。
16Christ is not only the center of the Bible but also the centrality and universality of God'secon o my. It was in this economy that Christ became incarnated, that He went to the cross to pass through crucifixion, that He came out from death and entered into resurrection, and that in resurrection He was begotten of God to be God's firstborn Son and as the last Adam became the life-giving Spirit to regenerate all His believers to make them the same as He is in life and nature that they might become His brothers and the sons of God. These sons plus the Firstborn all become a new man, with Him as the Head and with the church as His Body, to carry out God's eternal purpose to consummate in the New Jerusalem. If we see this revelation concerning God'secon o my, then we will be able to understand the book of Job. Job suffered God's stripping and consuming, but he did not understand what was happening to him. Job could say, "You have hidden these things in Your heart;/I know that this is with You" (10:13). He knew that God had a purpose, but he did not know what God's purpose was. Job and his three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, were in the realm of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Even though Job was on a somewhat higher level than his friends, he and they were still in the same realm. God was trying to rescue them from that realm and put them into the realm of the tree of life. The first thing God had to do was to strip Job, consume him, and tear him down so that he would become nothing as a person under suffering. This became the base for God to rebuild Job with the Divine Trinity, that Job could be a new man, a part of God's new creation, to fulfill God's eternal economy for God'sex press i on