26:1 約伯回答說:
26:2 無能的人蒙你何等的幫助!膀臂無力的人蒙你何等的拯救!
26:3 無智慧的人蒙你何等的指教!你向他多顯大知識!
26:4 你向誰發出言語來?誰的靈從你而出?
26:5 在大水和水族以下的陰魂戰兢。
26:6 在上帝面前,陰間顯露;滅亡也不得遮掩。
26:7 上帝將北極鋪在空中,將大地懸在虛空;
26:8 將水包在密雲中,雲卻不破裂;
26:9 遮蔽他的寶座,將雲鋪在其上;
26:10 在水面的周圍劃出界限,直到光明黑暗的交界。
26:11 天的柱子因他的斥責震動驚奇。
26:12 他以能力攪動(或譯:平靜)大海;他藉知識打傷拉哈伯,
26:13 藉他的靈使天有妝飾;他的手刺殺快蛇。
26:14 看哪,這不過是上帝工作的些微;我們所聽於他的是何等細微的聲音!他大能的雷聲誰能明透呢?
Then Job replied:
2 “How
you have helped the powerless!
How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
And what great insight you have displayed!
4 Who has helped you utter these words?
And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
5 “The
dead are in deep anguish,
those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6 The realm of the dead is naked before God;
Destruction[a] lies
uncovered.
7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space;
he suspends the earth over nothing.
8 He wraps up the waters in his clouds,
yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
9 He covers the face of the full moon,
spreading his clouds over it.
10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters
for a boundary between light and darkness.
11 The pillars of the heavens quake,
aghast at his rebuke.
12 By his power he churned up the sea;
by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
13 By his breath the skies became fair;
his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
how faint the whisper we hear of him!
Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”
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面對這一群朋友的話語,是感受他們發表的是無用的言語有自高自大,一點幫助沒有!轉而思考上帝的話語和祂的作為,讓約伯感受到上帝來的教導遠勝過人間來的智慧,於是他讚美上帝:「無能的人蒙你何等的幫助!膀臂無力的人蒙你何等的拯救!無智慧的人蒙你何等的指教!你向他多顯大知識!你向誰發出言語來?誰的靈從你而出?」
也因為這樣約伯感受到上帝的偉大,他述說了上帝許多創造和護理的奧秘,遠勝過人的作為,最後他更述說了上帝的大能:「看哪,這不過是上帝工作的些微;我們所聽於他的是何等細微的聲音!他大能的雷聲誰能明透呢?」
的確,從約伯的朋友的言論也給我們警戒,我們是不是像他們自以為是,將許多無謂的重擔加給我們所帶領、所照顧的弟兄姊妹呢?甚至我們自己也讓自以為是想法傷害了自己?
這不禁想到,先知書當中說到,到上帝面前要靜默,讓我們來感受上帝的榮光,讓上帝的大能親自來更新我們,而不是受一些從人來的自以為是的話語影響和遮蔽,使我們無法瞻仰到上帝的榮光!