微读圣经

Job’s Reply to Eliphaz

1Then Job answered:

2I have heard many things like these.

You are all miserable comforters. Jb 13:4; Ps 69:20; Ec 4:1

3Is there no end to your empty Lit windy ; Jb 15:2 Jb 15:2 words?

What provokes you that you continue testifying?

4If you were in my place I could also talk like you.

I could string words together against you

and shake my head at you.

5Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth,

and the consolation from my lips would bring relief. Dt 3:28; Jb 4:4; Is 41:10

6Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved,

and if I hold back, what have I lost?

7Surely He Or it has now exhausted me.

You have devastated my entire family.

8You have shriveled me up Or have seized me ; Hb obscure — it has become a witness;

My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.

9His anger tears at me, and He harasses Gn 49:23; Jb 30:21; Ps 55:3 me.

He gnashes His teeth at me.

My enemy pierces me with His eyes.

10They open their mouths against me

and strike my cheeks with contempt; 1Kg 22:24; Lm 3:30; Mc 5:1

they join themselves together against me.

11God hands me over to unjust men; LXX, Vg; MT reads to a boy

He throws me into the hands of the wicked.

12I was at ease, but He shattered me;

He seized me by the scruff of the neck

and smashed me to pieces.

He set me up as His target; Jb 7:20; Lm 3:12

13His archers Or arrows surround me.

He pierces my kidneys without mercy

and pours my bile on the ground.

14He breaks through my defenses again and again; Lit through me, breach on breach

He charges at me like a warrior. Jb 30:14; Jl 2:7

15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin;

I have buried my strength Lit horn in the dust. Jb 30:19; Ps 7:5; 75:10

16My face has grown red with weeping,

and darkness Ps 44:19; 107:10; Jr 13:16 covers my eyes,

17although my hands are free from violence Is 53:9; 59:6; Jnh 3:8

and my prayer is pure.

18Earth, do not cover my blood;

may my cry for help find no resting place. Gn 4:10; Is 26:21; Ezk 24:7-8

19Even now my witness is in heaven,

and my advocate is in the heights! Jb 22:12; Rm 1:9; 1Th 2:5

20My friends scoff at me

as I weep before God.

21I wish that someone might arbitrate

between a man and God Jb 31:35; Ec 6:10; Is 45:9

just as a man pleads for his friend.

22For only a few years will pass

before I go the way of no return.