So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

于是这三个人，因约伯自以为义就不再回答他。

于是这三个人因约伯看自己为义就停止，不再回答他。

于是这三个人因约伯看自己为义就停止，不再回答他。

三人见约伯自以为义，便不再回答他。

因为约伯自以为义，于是这三个人就不再回答他。

於是這三個人，因約伯自以為義就不再回答他。

於是這三個人因約伯看自己為義就停止，不再回答他。

於是這三個人因約伯看自己為義就停止，不再回答他。

三人見約伯自以為義，便不再回答他。

因為約伯自以為義，於是這三個人就不再回答他。

於是這三個人因約伯自以為義，就停止說話，不再回答約伯。

約伯自視為義、三人不復答之、

約百自以為義、三友不與辨也。

約百三友、約百三友原文作此三人見約百自以為義、遂不復答之、

So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

So the three men stopped answering Job, because he thought he was right.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Job’s three friends refused to reply further to him because he kept insisting on his innocence.

So these three men quit answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Then these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

So these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he[ was] righteous in his own eyes.

So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

‘ I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

I will tell God,‘ Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

“ I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?“ If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit( let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.“ If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.“ If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?“ If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it( no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.“ If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold,‘ You are my confidence;’If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.“ If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him( yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);if the men of my tent have not said,‘ Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’( the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.