Then Elihu continued and said,
以利户继续说，

Hear my words, you wise men; / And you who know, give ear to me.
你们智慧人，要听我的话；有知识的人，要侧耳听我说。

For the ear tries words / As the palate tastes food.
因为耳朵试验话语，好像上膛尝食物。

Let us choose for ourselves what is right; / Let us know among ourselves what is good.
我们当为自己选择何为是，彼此知道何为善。

For Job has said, I am righteous, / And God has taken away my right;
约伯曾说，我是义的，神夺去我的理；

Should I lie against my right? / My arrow wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.
我岂能说谎违背我的理？我虽无过，受的箭伤却无法医治。

What man is like Job, / Who drinks up scoffing like water,
谁像约伯，喝讥诮如同喝水，

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity / And walks with wicked men?
与作孽的结伴而行，和恶人一同行走呢？

For he has said, It does not profit a man / To delight himself in God.
他说，人以神为乐，总是无益。

Therefore, you men of understanding, hear me: / Far be it from God that He would do evil, / And from the Almighty that He would commit iniquity.
所以你们明理的人要听我的话：神断不至行恶，全能者断不至作孽。

For He will render a man's work to him / And will cause a man to find that which is according to his own way.
祂必按人所作的报应人，使人照自己的行径得报。

Indeed in all certainty God will not do evil, / And the Almighty will not pervert justice.
神必不作恶，全能者也必不屈枉公理。

Who has ever put the earth in His charge? / Or who has ever set in order the whole world?
谁派祂治理地？谁安定全世界呢？

If He were to consider Himself only, / He would gather back to Himself His spirit and His breath;
祂若只顾自己，将祂的灵和气收归自己；

All flesh would perish together, / And man would return to dust.
凡有血肉的必一同气绝，人必仍归尘土。

If then you have understanding, hear this; / Give ear to the voice of my words.
你若明理，就当听这话，侧耳听我言语的声音。

Shall one who hates justice govern? / And will you condemn the just and mighty One,
难道恨恶公理的，可以掌权么？那公义且有大能的，你岂可定为有罪呢？

He who says to a king, You worthless one! / And to nobles, You wicked one!
祂对君王说，你是卑劣的！对贵胄说，你是邪恶的！

He who does not respect the persons of princes, / Nor regard the rich man more than the poor, / For they are all the work of His hands?
祂不徇掌权者的情面，也不看重富足的过于贫穷的；因为他们都是祂手所造的。

In a moment they die, and in the middle of the night / The people are shaken, and they pass away; / And the mighty are taken away, but by no human hand.
在转眼之间，半夜之中，他们就死亡；百姓被震动而去世，有权势的被除灭非借人手。

For His eyes are upon the ways of a man, / And He sees all his steps.
因为神注目观看人的道路，看明人一切的脚步。

There is no darkness and no shadow of death / Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
没有黑暗和死荫，能给作孽的藏身。

For He does not need to consider a man further, / That he should go to God in litigation.
因为神不必再三鉴察人，使人到祂面前受审判。

He breaks mighty men in pieces without inquiry / And puts others in their stead.
祂不必查究，就打破有势力的人，设立别人代替他们。

Hence He knows their actions, / And He overturns them in the night so that they are crushed.
因此祂知道他们的行为，在夜间倾覆他们，使他们被压碎。

He strikes them as He would evil men, / In a place where all can see;
祂在众人眼前击打他们，如同击打恶人一样；

Because they turned aside from following after Him / And would not regard any of His ways,
因为他们偏离不跟从祂，也不留心祂一切的道路，

So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him, / And He heard the cry of the afflicted.
以致贫穷人的哀声达到祂那里，祂也听了困苦人的哀声。

When He is silent, who can condemn Him? / When He hides His face, who can behold Him? / He does so toward a nation and toward a man alike,
祂若静默，谁能定罪祂？祂若掩面，谁能看见祂？无论待一国或一人，都是如此，

That no profane man would reign, that there would be no snares for the people.
使不虔敬的人不得作王，免得有人牢笼百姓。

For has anyone ever said to God, / I have borne chastisement; I will offend no more;
有谁对神说，我担受了责罚，不再有败坏的行为了；

What I do not see teach me; / If I have committed iniquity, I will do it no more?
我所看不明的，求你指教我；我若作了孽，必不再作？

Should He recompense to fit you, since you have rejected it? / For you must choose, and not I. / So speak what you know.
祂施行报应，岂因你拒绝不受，就随你的心愿么？要作拣选的是你，不是我；你所知道的，只管说吧。

Men of understanding will say to me, / As well as the man of wisdom who hears me,
明理的人，和听我话的智慧人，必对我说，

Job has spoken without knowledge, / And his words are without insight.
约伯说话没有知识，言语中毫无见识。

I wish that Job were tried to the limit / Because of his answering like evil men.
我愿约伯被试验到底，因他回答像恶人一样。

For he adds rebellion to his sin; / Among us he claps his hands / And multiplies his words against God.
他在罪上又加悖逆；在我们中间拍掌，用许多言语顶撞神。