約伯記42:1-17

 

42:1 約伯回答耶和華說：
42:2 我知道，你萬事都能做；你的旨意不能攔阻。
42:3 誰用無知的言語使你的旨意隱藏呢？我所說的是我不明白的；這些事太奇妙，是我不知道的。
42:4 求你聽我，我要說話；我問你，求你指示我。
42:5 我從前風聞有你，現在親眼看見你。
42:6 因此我厭惡自己（或譯：我的言語），在塵土和爐灰中懊悔。
42:7 耶和華對約伯說話以後，就對提幔人以利法說：「我的怒氣向你和你兩個朋友發作，因為你們議論我不如我的僕人約伯說的是。
42:8 現在你們要取七隻公牛，七隻公羊，到我僕人約伯那裡去，為自己獻上燔祭，我的僕人約伯就為你們祈禱。我因悅納他，就不按你們的愚妄辦你們。你們議論我，不如我的僕人約伯說的是。」
42:9 於是提幔人以利法、書亞人比勒達、拿瑪人瑣法照著耶和華所吩咐的去行；耶和華就悅納約伯。
42:10 約伯為他的朋友祈禱。耶和華就使約伯從苦境（原文是擄掠）轉回，並且耶和華賜給他的比他從前所有的加倍。
42:11 約伯的弟兄、姊妹，和以先所認識的人都來見他，在他家裡一同吃飯；又論到耶和華所降與他的一切災禍，都為他悲傷安慰他。每人也送他一塊銀子和一個金環。
42:12 這樣，耶和華後來賜福給約伯比先前更多。他有一萬四千羊，六千駱駝，一千對牛，一千母驢。
42:13 他也有七個兒子，三個女兒。
42:14 他給長女起名叫耶米瑪，次女叫基洗亞，三女叫基連‧哈樸。
42:15 在那全地的婦女中找不著像約伯的女兒那樣美貌。她們的父親使她們在弟兄中得產業。
42:16 此後，約伯又活了一百四十年，得見他的兒孫，直到四代。
42:17 這樣，約伯年紀老邁，日子滿足而死。

 

Then Job replied to the Lord:

² “I know that you can do all things;
    no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
³ You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
    Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
    things too wonderful for me to know.

⁴ “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
    I will question you,
    and you shall answer me.’
⁵ My ears had heard of you
    but now my eyes have seen you.
⁶ Therefore I despise myself
    and repent in dust and ashes.”

⁷ After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. ⁸ So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.” ⁹ So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.

¹⁰ After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. ¹¹ All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver^[a] and a gold ring.

¹² The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. ¹³ And he also had seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴ The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. ¹⁵ Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.

¹⁶ After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. ¹⁷ And so Job died, an old man and full of years.

 

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    約伯記的最後，約伯在上帝面前承認：「上主啊，我知道你事事都能；你能實現一切計畫。你問，無知的我怎能疑惑你的智慧；我講論自己所不明白的事，奇妙異常，不能領悟。你要我留心聽你的話，答覆你提出的問題。從前我聽別人談論你；現在我親眼看見你。所以，我對說過的話覺得羞愧，坐在塵土和爐灰中懺悔。」

 

    然而上帝對以利法說：「我對你和你的兩個朋友很不滿意，因為你們議論我的話不比我的僕人約伯所說的正確。現在，你們要拿七隻公牛，七隻公羊，到約伯那裡去，為你們自己獻上燒化祭。約伯要為你們祈求；我會悅納他的祈求，不按照你們的愚昧責罰你們。你們對我的議論，不如約伯所說的有理。」

 

    上帝沒有讓約伯被這三位朋友白白數落，上帝為約伯討回公道，所以上帝並沒有不理會約伯！不僅如此，約伯失去的，上帝加倍奉還給他，不只是財富還有兒女！

 

    這養讓我們看見上帝是不虧待人的上帝，是公平正義的典範，是值得我們信靠與依賴的！