16:1 約伯回答說：
16:2 這樣的話我聽了許多；你們安慰人，反叫人愁煩。
16:3 虛空的言語有窮盡嗎？有甚麼話惹動你回答呢？
16:4 我也能說你們那樣的話；你們若處在我的境遇，我也會聯絡言語攻擊你們，又能向你們搖頭。
16:5 但我必用口堅固你們，用嘴消解你們的憂愁。
16:6 我雖說話，憂愁仍不得消解；我雖停住不說，憂愁就離開我嗎？
16:7 但現在上帝使我困倦，使親友遠離我，
16:8 又抓住我，作見證攻擊我；我身體的枯瘦也當面見證我的不是。
16:9 主發怒撕裂我，逼迫我，向我切齒；我的敵人怒目看我。
16:10 他們向我開口，打我的臉羞辱我，聚會攻擊我。
16:11 上帝把我交給不敬虔的人，把我扔到惡人的手中。
16:12 我素來安逸，他折斷我，掐住我的頸項，把我摔碎，又立我為他的箭靶子。
16:13 他的弓箭手四面圍繞我；他破裂我的肺腑，並不留情，把我的膽傾倒在地上，
16:14 將我破裂又破裂，如同勇士向我直闖。
16:15 我縫麻布在我皮膚上，把我的角放在塵土中。
16:16 我的臉因哭泣發紫，在我的眼皮上有死蔭。
16:17 我的手中卻無強暴；我的祈禱也是清潔。
16:18 地啊，不要遮蓋我的血！不要阻擋我的哀求！
16:19 現今，在天有我的見證，在上有我的中保。
16:20 我的朋友譏誚我，我卻向上帝眼淚汪汪。
16:21 願人得與上帝辯白，如同人與朋友辯白一樣；
16:22 因為再過幾年，我必走那往而不返之路。
Then Job replied:
2 “I
have heard many things like these;
you are miserable comforters, all of you!
3 Will your long-winded speeches never end?
What ails you that you keep on arguing?
4 I also could speak like you,
if you were in my place;
I could make fine speeches against you
and shake my head at you.
5 But my mouth would encourage you;
comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
6 “Yet
if I speak, my pain is not relieved;
and if I refrain, it does not go away.
7 Surely, God, you have worn me out;
you have devastated my entire household.
8 You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness;
my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
9 God assails me and tears me in his anger
and gnashes his teeth at me;
my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
10 People open their mouths to jeer at me;
they strike my cheek in scorn
and unite together against me.
11 God has turned me over to the ungodly
and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.
12 All was well with me, but he shattered me;
he seized me by the neck and crushed me.
He has made me his target;
13 his archers surround me.
Without pity, he pierces my kidneys
and spills my gall on the ground.
14 Again and again he bursts upon me;
he rushes at me like a warrior.
15 “I
have sewed sackcloth over my skin
and buried my brow in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping,
dark shadows ring my eyes;
17 yet my hands have been free of violence
and my prayer is pure.
18 “Earth,
do not cover my blood;
may my cry never be laid to rest!
19 Even now my witness is in heaven;
my advocate is on high.
20 My intercessor is my friend[a]
as my eyes pour out tears to God;
21 on behalf of a man he pleads with God
as one pleads for a friend.
22 “Only
a few years will pass
before I take the path of no return.
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約伯回應得好實在：「這樣的話我聽了許多；你們安慰人，反叫人愁煩。虛空的言語有窮盡嗎？有甚麼話惹動你回答呢？我也能說你們那樣的話；你們若處在我的境遇，我也會聯絡言語攻擊你們，又能向你們搖頭。但我必用口堅固你們，用嘴消解你們的憂愁。」
約伯的三個朋友忘記自己來探訪約伯的目的是甚麼，也忘記約伯真正的處境是怎樣，竟然和約伯爭吵，在那裏議論約伯和他的家人多麼不義，他們多麼有智慧、多麼討上帝的喜悅，真的很奇怪呢！
其實很多自以為是的人真多呢！還有人宣稱：「上帝用苦難來家增祂的兒女的「神性」，所以我們受苦受難都是上帝的賜福！」
你能接受這樣的論調嗎？當然一看就覺得是異端，請問人有「神性」嗎？當然沒有！我們使用任何神學名詞都要小心，不要自己高興怎樣說就怎樣說，這是對教義的混亂，是混亂教會的行為，豈可不小心呢！
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