And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
提幔人以利法回答说，

Should a wise man answer with the knowledge of wind, / And should he fill his belly with the east wind?
智慧人岂可用虚空如风的知识回答，用东风充满肚腹呢？

Should he argue with useless talk / And with words by which he cannot avail?
他岂可用无益的话，和无济于事的言语理论呢？

Indeed you do away with the fear of God / And restrain meditation before God.
你实在是废弃对神的敬畏，阻止在神面前的默想。

For your iniquity instructs your mouth, / And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
你的罪孽指教你的口，你选用诡诈人的舌头。

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; / And your own lips testify against you.
你自己的口定你有罪，并非是我；你自己的嘴唇见证你的不是。

Are you the first man born? / Or were you brought forth before the hills?
你岂是头一个生下来的人么？你出生在诸山之先么？

Did you listen in on the secret council of God? / And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
你曾听见神的密旨么？你还将智慧独归己有么？

What do you know that we do not know? / What do you understand that is not with us?
你知道什么，是我们不知道的呢？你明白什么，是我们不明白的呢？

Both the grayheaded and the aged are among us, / Older than your father.
我们中间有白发的，也有年纪老迈的，岁数比你父亲还大。

Are the consolations of God too small for you, / Or the word spoken gently to you?
神的安慰，和祂对你所说温和的话，你以为太小么？

Why does your heart take you away? / And why do your eyes flash,
你的心为何将你夺去？你的眼为何冒出火星，

That you turn your spirit against God / And let words go forth from your mouth?
使你的灵转而反对神，也任你的口发出这样的言语？

What is mortal man, that he can be clean, / Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
人是什么，竟能成为洁净的呢？妇人所生的是什么，竟能成为义的呢？

Indeed, He puts no trust in His holy ones; / Even the heavens are not clean in His eyes.
看哪，神不信靠祂的众圣者；在祂眼前天也不洁净。

How much less one who is abominable and corrupt! / How much less a man who drinks wrong like water!
何况那可憎败坏，喝不义如水的人呢！

I will tell you; hear me; / And what I have seen, that will I recount,
我指示你，你要听我；我所看见的，我要述说，

What wise men have declared, / And have not hidden, from their fathers;
就是智慧人从列祖所受，传说而不隐瞒的；

To whom alone the land was given, / And no stranger passed in their midst:
这地惟独赐给他们的列祖，并没有外人从他们中间经过；

For all his days the wicked man travails in pain, / And numbered years are stored up for the ruthless man.
恶人一生之日，劬劳痛苦；为强暴人积存的年日，都数算过了。

The sound of terrors is in his ears; / While he is at peace, the destroyer will come upon him.
惊吓的声音常在他耳中；在平安时，抢夺的必临到他。

He does not believe that he will return from the darkness, / And he is spied out for the sword.
他不信自己能从黑暗中转回；有刀剑窥伺等着他。

He wanders for bread — where is it? / He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.
他飘流在外求食，说，哪里有食物呢？他知道黑暗的日子在他手边预备好了。

Distress and straits terrify him; / They prevail against him, like a king prepared for the attack;
急难窘困叫他害怕，而且胜了他，好像君王预备好上阵攻击一样；

Because he stretched out his hand against God, / And against the Almighty he acted mightily,
因为他伸手攻击神，逞强攻击全能者，

Running against Him with a stiff neck, / With the thick bosses of his shield;
挺着颈项，用盾牌的厚凸面，向全能者直闯；

Because he covered his face with his fatness / And gathered fat upon his loins;
因为他的脸蒙上自己的脂油，腰上积满肥肉；

And he dwelt in desolated cities, / In houses which should not have been inhabited, / Which were appointed to become heaps.
他住在荒凉的城邑，住在人不该居住、注定将成乱堆的房屋。

He will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure; / Nor will his produce bend down to the earth.
他不得富足，财物不得常存，出产也不累垂于地。

He will not go away from darkness; / The flame will dry up his shoots, / And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
他不得离开黑暗；火焰要将他的嫩枝烧干，他要因神口中的气逝去。

Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; / For vanity will be his recompense.
愿他不信靠虚假，欺哄自己；因虚假必成为他的报应。

It will be fully paid before his day, / And his branch will not be flourishing.
他的日期未到之先，这事必成就，他的枝子不得青茂。

He will shake off his unripe grapes like a vine, / And he will cast off his blossom like an olive tree.
他必像葡萄树未熟的葡萄被打下，又像橄榄树刚开的花被摇落。

For the company of the profane will be barren, / And fire will devour the tents of bribery.
因为不虔敬之辈必无生育，受贿赂之人的帐棚必被火烧；

They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity, / And their heart prepares deceit.
他们所怀的是毒害，所生的是罪孽，心里所预备的是诡诈。