| | 1 | 提幔人以利法回答说，
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: | |
| | 2 | 智慧人岂可用虚空的知识回答，用东风充满肚腹呢？
"Would a wise man answer with empty notions or fill his belly with the hot east wind? | |
| | 3 | 他岂可用无益的话，和无济于事的言语，理论呢？
Would he argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value? | |
| | 4 | 你是废弃敬畏的意，在神面前阻止敬虔的心。
But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God. | |
| | 5 | 你的罪孽指教你的口。你选用诡诈人的舌头。
Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty. | |
| | 6 | 你自己的口定你有罪，并非是我。你自己的嘴，见证你的不是。
Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you. | |
| | 7 | 你岂是头一个被生的人吗？你受造在诸山之先吗？
"Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills? | |
| | 8 | 你曾听见神的密旨吗？你还将智慧独自得尽吗？
Do you listen in on God's council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? | |
| | 9 | 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？
What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have? | |
| | 10 | 我们这里有白发的，和年纪老迈的，比你父亲还老。
The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father. | |
| | 11 | 神用温和的话安慰你，你以为太小吗？
Are God's consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you? | |
| | 12 | 你的心为何将你逼去。你的眼为何冒出火星。
Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash, | |
| | 13 | 使你的灵反对神，也任你的口发这言语。
so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth? | |
| | 14 | 人是什么，竟算为洁净呢？妇人所生的是什么，竟算为义呢？
"What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of woman, that he could be righteous? | |
| | 15 | 神不信靠他的众圣者。在他眼前，天也不洁净。
If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes, | |
| | 16 | 何况那污秽可憎，喝罪孽如水的世人呢？
how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks up evil like water! | |
| | 17 | 我指示你，你要听。我要述说所看见的。
"Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen, | |
| | 18 | 就是智慧人从列祖所受，传说而不隐瞒的。
what wise men have declared, hiding nothing received from their fathers | |
| | 19 | （这地惟独赐给他们，并没有外人从他们中间经过）。
(to whom alone the land was given when no alien passed among them): | |
| | 20 | 恶人一生之日劬劳痛苦，强暴人一生的年数也是如此。
All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless through all the years stored up for him. | |
| | 21 | 惊吓的声音常在他耳中。在平安时，抢夺的必临到他那里。
Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him. | |
| | 22 | 他不信自己能从黑暗中转回，他被刀剑等候。
He despairs of escaping the darkness; he is marked for the sword. | |
| | 23 | 他漂流在外求食，说，哪里有食物呢？他知道黑暗的日子，在他手边预备好了。
He wanders about--food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand. | |
| | 24 | 急难困苦叫他害怕，而且胜了他，好像君王预备上阵一样。
Distress and anguish fill him with terror; they overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack, | |
| | 25 | 他伸手攻击神，以骄傲攻击全能者。
because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty, | |
| | 26 | 挺着颈项，用盾牌的厚凸面，向全能者直闯。
defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield. | |
| | 27 | 是因他的脸蒙上脂油，腰积成肥肉。
"Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh, | |
| | 28 | 他曾住在荒凉城邑，无人居住，将成乱堆的房屋。
he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble. | |
| | 29 | 他不得富足，财物不得常存，产业在地上也不加增。
He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land. | |
| | 30 | 他不得出离黑暗。火焰要将他的枝子烧干。因神口中的气，他要灭亡（灭亡原文作走去）。
He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away. | |
| | 31 | 他不用倚靠虚假欺哄自己，因虚假必成为他的报应。
Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless, for he will get nothing in return. | |
| | 32 | 他的日期未到之先，这事必成就。他的枝子不得青绿。
Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish. | |
| | 33 | 他必像葡萄树的葡萄，未熟而落。又像橄榄树的花，一开而谢。
He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms. | |
| | 34 | 原来不敬虔之辈必无生育。受贿赂之人的帐棚必被火烧。
For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes. | |
| | 35 | 他们所怀的是毒害，所生的是罪孽，心里所预备的是诡诈。
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit." | |
