微读圣经

Job’s Reply to Zophar

1Then Job answered:

2No doubt you are the people,

and wisdom will die with you!

3But I also have a mind like you;

I am not inferior to you.

Who doesn’t know the things you are talking about?12:3 Lit With whom are not such things as these?12:3 Jb 13:2; 15:9; 16:2

4I am a laughingstock to my12:4 Lit his friends,

by calling on God, who answers me.12:4 Lit him

The righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock.12:4 Jb 30:1,9; Jr 20:7; Lm 3:14

5The one who is at ease12:5 Ps 123:4; Am 6:1 holds calamity in contempt

and thinks it is prepared for those whose feet are slipping.

6The tents of robbers are safe,12:6 Jb 5:24; 8:6; 21:9

and those who trouble God are secure;

God holds them in his hands.12:6 Or secure; to those who bring their god in their hands12:6 Ps 73:11; Jr 12:1; Mt 5:45

7But ask the animals, and they will instruct you;

ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.12:7 Jb 35:11; Mt 6:26

8Or speak to the earth, and it will instruct you;

let the fish of the sea inform you.

9Which of all these does not know

that the hand of the Lord has done this?12:9 Ru 1:13; Jb 19:21; Is 41:20

10The life of every living thing is in his hand,

as well as the breath of all humanity.12:10 Gn 2:7; Jb 27:3; 33:4

11Doesn’t the ear test words

as the palate tastes food?

12Wisdom is found with the elderly,

and understanding comes with long life.12:12 Jb 12:20; 32:7,9; Ps 119:100

13Wisdom and strength belong to God;

counsel and understanding are his.12:13 Jb 9:4; 36:5; 38:36

14Whatever he tears down cannot be rebuilt;

whoever he imprisons cannot be released.12:14 Jb 11:10; Is 22:22; Rv 3:7

15When he withholds water, everything dries up,

and when he releases it, it destroys the land.12:15 Is 41:18; 42:15; 44:3,27

16True wisdom and power belong to him.

The deceived and the deceiver are his.

17He leads counselors away barefoot

and makes judges go mad.12:17 Jb 9:24; Is 29:14; 44:25

18He releases the bonds12:18 Text emended; MT reads discipline put on by kings12:18 Jb 12:21; Is 45:1

and fastens a belt around their waists.

19He leads priests away barefoot

and overthrows established leaders.12:19 Is 40:23; Lk 1:52

20He deprives trusted advisers of speech

and takes away the elders’ good judgment.

21He pours out contempt on nobles

and disarms12:21 Lit and loosens the belt of the strong.

22He reveals mysteries from the darkness

and brings the deepest darkness into the light.12:22 Ps 90:8; Dn 2:22; 1Co 4:5

23He makes nations great, then destroys them;

he enlarges nations,12:23 Ex 34:24; Is 9:3; 26:15 then leads them away.

24He deprives the world’s leaders of reason,

and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.12:24 Ps 107:40; Dn 4:33

25They grope around in darkness without light;

he makes them stagger like a drunkard.12:25 Dt 28:29; Jb 5:14; Is 59:10

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