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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（02月04日）
二月四日 「耶和華要使你乘駕地的高處。」以賽亞書五八章14節 熟習航空的人告訴我們：他們初習的時候，常是逆風駕駛。逆風會把飛機抬得高些。這個祕訣，他們是從甚麼地方學來的呢？他們從鳥類那裏學來的。如果一隻鳥兒正飛著玩，牠就隨風而飛。如果遇見了危險，牠就立刻轉過身來，面向風飛；這樣，牠可以飛得高些。 人生的逆境，是神給你的逆風，它們能抬你到最高級的一屬天的生活去。這就是「耶和華要使你乘駕地的高處」的方法。讓我們作一個帶響弦的風箏，在神的風中越飄越高，同時發出最好聽的音樂——讚美——來以悅神耳。 你有沒有經歷過：夏日空氣熱悶的時候，有時竟連氣也會透不過來。但在西方的天邊，出現了一朵雲，接踵而至。暴風雨掩蓋了這世界給這世界帶來了無窮的舒適，空氣也澄清了，氣象為之一新，世界是改觀了。 人生也完全一樣的道理。當暴風雨來臨的時候，環境可能起了惡劣的變化，但它能發生澄清的作用，充滿了新的氣象，好像天堂的一角也被帶到地上來了。 ─選 障礙應該使我們歡唱。風之能發生曼妙的聲響，並不在海洋上暢行無阻的時候，而是在艱難地吹過層層枝葉交織的松樹林間，或是吹到「愛奧良」琴的弦上，起了阻抗作用的時候。在上面這些場合，風才發出有力和美麗的音韻。釋放你的靈魂，讓它橫掃生命的障礙，穿過痛苦的可佈森林，小至微細的磨折和煩惱，那麼你的靈魂，也會唱出它的歌聲了。 ─選 像一隻停飛的小鳥， 棲息在細細的樹梢， 歌唱時抖抖下垂， 我有翅膀，不必煩惱。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月04日）
February 4 "I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth." (Isa. 58:14.) ＴHOSE who fly through the air in airships tell us that one of the first rules they learn is to turn their ship toward the wind, and fly against it. The wind lifts the ship up to higher heights. Where did they learn that? They learned it from the birds. If a bird is flying for pleasure, it goes with the wind. But if the bird meets danger, it turns right around and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher; and it flies away towards the very sun. Sufferings are God's winds, His contrary winds, sometimes His strong winds. They are God's hurricanes, but, they take human life and lift it to higher levels and toward God's heavens. You have seen in the summer time a day when the atmosphere was so oppressive that you could hardly breathe? But a cloud appeared on the western horizon and that cloud grew larger and threw out rich blessing for the world. The storm rose, lightning flashed and thunder pealed. The storm covered the world, and the atmosphere was cleansed; new life was in the air, and the world was changed. Human life is worked out according to exactly the same principle. When the storm breaks the atmosphere is changed, clarified, filled with new life; and a part of heaven is brought down to earth. ─Selected. Obstacles ought to set us singing. The wind finds voice, not when rushing across the open sea, but when hindered by the outstretched arms of the pine trees, or broken by the fine strings of an Aeolian harp. Then it has songs of power and beauty. Set your freed soul sweeping across the obstacles of life, through grim forests of pain, against even the tiny hindrances and frets that love uses, and it, too, will find its singing voice. ─Selected. "Be like a bird that, halting in its flight, Rests on a bough too slight. And feeling it give way beneath him sings, Knowing he hath wings."
■ 永活之泉（02月04日）
二月四日 愛慕神 「夜間，我心中羨慕您。」以賽亞書廿六章9節 甚麼人是人在地上所能看見、能尋得、最重要、最偉大、最榮耀的東西呢？只有神自己。甚麼是人每天所需要而能作到的，又最重要、最美好、最榮耀的事呢？除了尋求、認識、愛慕，並讚美這位榮耀的神之外，再也沒有別的了。神是那麼的榮耀，但那些將自己獻給神、為神而活、讓祂的榮耀在心裡工作，而成為他的生命的人，也是極其榮耀的。 弟兄們！你有沒有學習每天去作那第一的、最偉大的事呢？沒有一件事比尋求這位神，並學習碰見祂、敬拜祂，為祂和祂的榮耀而活著，是更偉大的。每一個基督徒，真的看見了這一個，當藉著交通降服跟從神，並且以神為他生活的主要目的，在那時候，也就是他在基督徒生命的道路上更長進了。 請花時間來尋求這究竟是不是一個真理，是不是一個最高的智慧，是基督徒應該為著神而活的。─在生活中對神有正確的認識並用全心來愛祂。相信這不僅是非常的實在，而且神自己也極盼望，你能這樣與祂同活，祂願意答應你的禱告，使你能經歷這一個。 請自今天起從聖經中拿出一些話，用安靜的心，來對神說：「神阿，您是我的神，我要切切地尋求您，我渴想您；我的心切慕您。我要緊緊跟隨您。」（詩六十三1）「我一心尋您。」（詩一一2） 以極深的崇敬和像小孩一樣的盼望，重複這些話，直到這些話的精意和能力，進入你的心；並且等候神，直到你嘗著了與祂這樣相交的福份。當你這樣保持下去的時候，你就要學習存敬畏的心活在神面前，並盼望整天都繼續在這種情形裡。 「我曾耐性等候耶和華，他垂聽我的呼求。」（詩四十1）
■ 中文屬天日子（02月04日）
二月四日 人格支配力量的尊嚴 「原來基督的愛激勵我們。」哥林多後書五章14節 保羅說，他被基督的愛操縱著，箝制著，好像被箝在老虎箝裡一般。我們中沒有多的人知道被神的愛握住；都是被我們的經驗握住了。有一件事握住了保羅，直到他的眼界見不著別的東西，那就是神的愛。「基督的愛激勵我們」──當你聽見某男某女心中有這樣的音調，你絕不能錯認的，你準知道神的靈在那人裡面是進行裕如，毫無阻窒的。 當我們重生於神的靈，神就在我們裡面作見證，那見證的音調，理當是這樣。但是聖靈的洗禮，卻能永遠把這忘卻了，而我們會開始覺得耶穌說「你們可以給我作見證。」這句話的意思，不是見證耶穌所作的──那是一種初步的見證──卻是「給我作見證。」我們給祂作見證，就是把一切發生在我們身上的事情，當作發生在祂的身上。無論是稱讚或譴責，是逼迫，或欽仰，沒有人像這樣替耶穌基督忍受這些事，除非他受過耶穌基督人格的激勵。這是該當留意的，也是基督徒工人最難明白的。保羅說他被基督的愛握住；那是因為他行其所行的緣故。無論人批評他放蕩或拘謹，他卻不介意；他只為一件事活著，那就是勸人注意神的審判和基督的愛。像這樣徜徉於基督的愛中是生活成功的祕訣，將永留神的權能和聖潔的印象，不計自身的聖潔與否。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月04日）
二月四日 「我就常與你們同在，直到世界的末了。」馬太福音廿八章20節 主基督不是仍然釘在十字架上的主，祂乃是我們又真又活的神。 有一天，在派斯頓潘靠近愛丁堡的地方，我舉目往這曾為戰場的地方看了很久。有一回當戰事正危險之即，一方的首領因受傷而倒了下來。當他的部下看到他不支倒地，他們幾乎立刻夾腿逃離戰場。他們握著手榴彈的手雖然強壯，但卻不停地抖，突然之間，他們竟寸步難行。還好這個年老的首領強打精神，用他的手肘把自己撐起來說：「我沒死，我的孩子們，我在觀看我的同胞盡他們的責任。」 同樣情況，我們的救主在復活之後，也這麼對我們說。儘管我們無法看到祂，但是祂曾說：「我就常與你們同在，直到世界的末了。」注意，祂用「常」這個字來強調祂的同在，是不斷且恆常的。祂沒有用「將會與你們同在」，卻保證我們與祂的同在是繼續、永恆的。 不多時，我們將勝過一切衝突； 不多時，我們將贏得所有戰鬥； 然後，我們要揮舞我們勝利的雙手， 高唱不朽的詩歌， 我們歡樂之歌的歌詞將是── 靠著您，我已戰勝了一切。
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