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1:1 烏斯地有一個人名叫約伯；那人完全正直，敬畏 神，遠離惡事。 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.
1:2 他生了七個兒子，三個女兒。 He had seven sons and three daughters, 1:3 他的家產有七千羊，三千駱駝，五百對牛，五百母驢，並有許多僕婢。這人在東方人中就為至大。 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East. 1:4 他的兒子按著日子各在自己家裏設擺筵宴，就打發人去，請了他們的三個姊妹來，與他們一同吃喝。 His sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 1:5 筵宴的日子過了，約伯打發人去叫他們自潔。他清早起來，按著他們眾人的數目獻燔祭；因為他說：「恐怕我兒子犯了罪，心中棄掉 神。」約伯常常這樣行。 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, <<Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.>> This was Job's regular custom. 1:6 有一天， 神的眾子來侍立在耶和華面前，撒但也來在其中。 One day the angels 1:6 Hebrew ((the sons of God)) came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan 1:6 ((Satan)) means ((accuser.)) also came with them. 1:7 耶和華問撒但說：「你從哪裏來？」撒但回答說：「我從地上走來走去，往返而來。」 The LORD said to Satan, <<Where have you come from?>> Satan answered the LORD, <<From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it.>> 1:8 耶和華問撒但說：「你曾用心察看我的僕人約伯沒有？地上再沒有人像他完全正直，敬畏 神，遠離惡事。」 Then the LORD said to Satan, <<Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.>> 1:9 撒但回答耶和華說：「約伯敬畏 神，豈是無故呢？ <<Does Job fear God for nothing?>> Satan replied. 1:10 他的妻子對他說：「你仍然持守你的純正嗎？你棄掉 神，死了吧！」 <<Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 1:11 你豈不是四面圈上籬笆圍護他和他的家，並他一切所有的嗎？他手所做的都蒙你賜福；他的家產也在地上增多。 But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.>> 1:12 你且伸手毀他一切所有的；他必當面棄掉你。」 The LORD said to Satan, <<Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.>> Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD. 1:13 耶和華對撒但說：「凡他所有的都在你手中；只是不可伸手加害於他。」於是撒但從耶和華面前退去。 One day when Job's sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, 1:14 有一天，約伯的兒女正在他們長兄的家裏吃飯喝酒， a messenger came to Job and said, <<The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, 1:15 有報信的來見約伯，說：「牛正耕地，驢在旁邊吃草， and the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!>> 1:16 示巴人忽然闖來，把牲畜擄去，並用刀殺了僕人；惟有我一人逃脫，來報信給你。」 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, <<The fire of God fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!>> 1:17 他還說話的時候，又有人來說：「 神從天上降下火來，將群羊和僕人都燒滅了；惟有我一人逃脫，來報信給你。」 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, <<The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!>> 1:18 他還說話的時候，又有人來說：「迦勒底人分作三隊忽然闖來，把駱駝擄去，並用刀殺了僕人；惟有我一人逃脫，來報信給你。」 While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, <<Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, 1:19 他還說話的時候，又有人來說：「你的兒女正在他們長兄的家裏吃飯喝酒， when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!>> 1:20 不料，有狂風從曠野颳來，擊打房屋的四角，房屋倒塌在少年人身上，他們就都死了；惟有我一人逃脫，來報信給你。」 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 1:21 約伯便起來，撕裂外袍，剃了頭，伏在地上下拜， and said: <<Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. 1:21 Or ((will return there)) The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised.>> 1:22 說：「我赤身出於母胎，也必赤身歸回；賞賜的是耶和華，收取的也是耶和華。耶和華的名是應當稱頌的。」 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing. This is Alex Markley's PHPScripture v1.2.0, displaying a copy of Chinese Union Version Bible in XOOPS. 本模組中文化由長島基督福音教會的Jack起始, 聖經文字部分由CCIM(網路基督使團)網站下載. 如欲修改經文請洽聖經公會. 荒漠甘泉五合一■ 中文荒漠甘泉（01月28日）
一月廿八日 「我為你們起的憤恨，原是神那樣的憤恨。」哥林多後書十一章2節（衛莫司譯本） 一個善奏古琴的琴師，何等寵愛他的古琴呢！他把它懷抱在胸中，撫它、親它、偎它！他和它相依為命。可是，你看他怎樣調整弦音。他把它緊緊握住，用力地在弦上撥一下；弦立刻震顫，好似驚痛之下的戰慄；他側耳細聽，覺得弦音粗浮，還未準確。於是他把弦絞緊；彈撥再三，直等到它能發出柔和準確的聲音來。他臉上纔露出笑容，點頭滿意。 親愛的，其實神也是如此對待你。祂愛你遠勝琴師愛琴，祂發你的聲音不和諧。祂把你緊緊抓住，用力撥你的心弦；祂側耳細聽，豈知你所發的聲音仍是咒詛和怨言；祂只得絞緊你的心弦，再撥，再彈，直等你的聲音是讚美、感謝，和「不要成就我的意思，只要成就您的意思。」（路廿二40）——神所最喜聽的音樂。 ─選 豎琴有許多琴弦， 在愛的旋律中震顫， 一一和諧合拍， 流露出蘊蓄的甜美。 忽有一二弦驀地斷裂崩弛， 破壞了緊湊， 就如不起的波瀾的一泓死水。 愛的狂喜和傷痛相連， 取得王冠的手， 必曾受過許多苦難和酸痛； 未曾爭鬥的人， 不會有得勝者的榮譽， 經過了辛苦， 才能領略休息和平靜的美夢。 阿爾卑斯山的遊客， 唯有在兩場風雨之間， 才能欣賞天空的明淨和霞光的奇觀， 如果夏季永遠碧空無雲， 也會有十丈紅塵飛揚迷漫。 悲哀與快樂， 誰也不能作分別的選擇， 雨者， 必須都有體念， 否則懵懂恍惚， 無所知悉， 沒有非常的痛苦， 就沒有非常的福祉， 對苦痛麻木的心靈， 對福祉也不會敏感。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（01月28日）
January 28 "I am jealous over you with God's own jealousy." (2Cor. 11:2.)(Weymouth.) ＨOW an old harper dotes on his harp! How he fondles and caresses it, as a child resting on his bosom! His life is bound up in it. But, see him tuning it. He grasps it firmly, strikes a chord with a sharp, quick blow; and while it quivers as if in pain, he leans over intently to catch the first note that rises. The note, as he feared, is false and harsh. He strains the chord with the torturing thumb-screw; and though it seems ready to snap with the tension, he strikes it again, bending down to listen softly as before, till at length you see a smile on his face as the first true tone trembles upward. So it may be that God is dealing with you. Loving you better than any harper loves his harp, He finds you a mass of jarring discords. He wrings your heartstrings with some torturing anguish; He bends over you tenderly, striking and listening; and, hearing only a harsh murmur, strikes you again, while His heart bleeds for you, anxiously waiting for that strain－"Not my will, but thine be done"─which is melody sweet to His ear as angels' songs. Nor will He cease to strike until your chastened soul shall blend with all the pure and infinite harmonies of His own being. ─Selected. "Oh, the sweetness that dwells in a harp of many strings, While each, all vocal with love in a tuneful harmony rings! But, oh, the wail and the discord, when one and another is rent, Tensionless, broken and lost, from the cherished instrument. "For rapture of love is linked with the pain or fear of loss, And the hand that takes the crown, must ache with many a cross; Yet he who hath never a conflict, hath never a victor's palm, And only the toilers know the sweetness of rest and calm, "Only between the storms can the Alpine traveller know Transcendent glory of clearness, marvels of gleam and glow; Had he the brightness unbroken of cloudless summer days, This had been dimmed by the dust and the veil of a brooding haze. "Who would dare the choice, neither or both to know, The finest quiver of joy or the agony thrill of woe! Never the exquisite pain, then never the exquisite bliss, For the heart that is dull to that can never be striung to this."
■ 永活之泉（01月28日）
一月廿八日 全心 「我全心尋求了您。」詩篇一一九篇10節原文 請注意詩人在這裡頻頻提起全心這兩個字。「全心尋求祂的。」（2節）「我便遵守您的律法，且要全心遵守。」（34節）「我卻要全心守您的訓詞。」（69節）「我全心呼籲您。」（145節）無論是為著尋求神，為著遵守祂的律法，或為著呼籲祂的幫助，每次都要用全心。 我們如果要把屬世的事作得成功，我們就把我們的全心都放在裡面。在事奉這位聖潔之神的事上，我們豈不更需要擺上全心麼？難道祂不配麼？祂至高的聖潔以及我們心中厭棄神的天性，豈不更要求我們該擺上全心麼？當我們在隱密處敬拜祂的時候，我們需要用全心來事奉祂。 但是有大多數的基督徒，根本沒有想到這一點！他們在禱告的時候，在讀神話語的時候，在努力遵行祂旨意的時候，從不記得需要一直說這一句話：「我們全心尋求您。」是的，當我們禱告的時候，當我們想要明白神話語的時候，當我們要遵行祂旨意的時候，但願我們能說：「我渴慕用全心來尋求神，來事奉神，並討祂的喜悅。」 「我全心尋求了您。」親愛的讀者啊！請把這句話放在你的心裡，把它思想過、禱告過。你要在神面前，把它說出來，直等到你感覺你真的知道你所說的是甚麼，並且確實相信神要聽你的禱告。每天早晨，當你進到神面前去禱告的時候，都請說這句話：「我全心尋求您。」你會逐漸的覺得需要在聖潔的安靜裡等候神，這樣祂就要得著你整個的心，你也就要學習用你的全心和全力來愛祂。
■ 中文屬天日子（01月28日）
一月廿八日 難相信一個人能這樣逼害耶穌 「掃羅，掃羅，為甚麼逼迫我？」使徒行傳廿六章14節 我替神決定我自己的道路麼？除非我們被領進聖靈和火洗的經驗裡面去，我們難得擺脫這種圈套。頑固和我見總是阻擋耶穌基督的，也許不傷害別人，卻傷害祂的靈。無論何時，我們固執己見，決定我們自己的雄圖，我們就損傷了耶穌。無論何時，我們要保持自己的權利，堅持我們所要作的事，我們就逼迫了耶穌。無論何時，我們要保持自己的尊嚴，我們就故意的使祂的靈憂傷了。當我們覺悟我們所逼迫的是耶穌，才有保羅在大馬色路上的覺悟迸出來。 我把神的道傳給人，我自己是否持守了這道呢？抑或我的生命與我所傳的道不一致呢？我也許教人成聖，自己反而表露撒但的精神，危逼耶穌基督的精神。耶穌的靈只感覺一件事──完全與父合一，祂說：「我心裡柔和謙卑，學我的樣式。」（太十一29）我一切所作的，應該建立在與祂完全合一的上面，不在自己決定如何敬虔的上面。這樣，或者我是易於受欺，易於受委屈，易於受人輕視；但是如果我因祂的緣故忍受這一切，耶穌基督之受逼便停止了。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（01月28日）
一月廿八日 「這些事我已經對你們說了，是要叫我的喜樂存在你們心裡，並叫你們的喜樂可以滿足。」約翰福音十五章11節 有一種喜樂乃是油然從心中發出的，並不需要任何外在或甚至合理的原因。這種喜樂宛如一口深水井，自然流露、完全不能自已。因為這樣的喜樂是神的榮耀，是因基督的心，更因主叫祂的喜樂存在我們心裡，並叫我們的喜樂可以滿足。 這樣的喜樂是人不能挪去的，因為有喜樂泉源的人，不會被環境左右、顯得失望；相反的，這些人經常因有毫無原因、但深且甘甜的喜樂，而覺得驚訝。這種喜樂往往在環境最艱難、在人最容易覺得痛苦和沮喪時，顯得更加豐富。這情景就像我們心中有隻夜鶯，在夜間時嘹亮地歌唱。 這種榮耀不朽的喜樂，不僅是屬天的，而且已經成為永恆的歌聲。主啊！在任何情況之下，您都賜給我們喜樂，讓我們心中的祝福滿溢、使我們成為他人的祝福。
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