For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.

现在你们正是这样，看见惊吓的事便惧怕。

现在你们正是这样，看见惊吓的事就惧怕。

现在你们正是这样，看见惊吓的事就惧怕。

同样，你们帮不了我，你们看见灾祸便害怕。

现在你们就是这样，看见我的灾难就害怕。

現在你們正是這樣，看見驚嚇的事便懼怕。

現在你們正是這樣，看見驚嚇的事就懼怕。

現在你們正是這樣，看見驚嚇的事就懼怕。

同樣，你們幫不了我，你們看見災禍便害怕。

現在你們就是這樣，看見我的災難就害怕。

現在你們對於我正是這樣；你們看見可怕的事便懼怕。

爾曹亦然、見彼威烈、則恐懼焉、

爾曹亦若此溪、使我失望、見我患難、悚然退懼。

今爾曹亦若是、見我可畏之患難則懼、

Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid.

And now, my friends, you haven’t helped me either. You see the horrible condition I’m in. And that makes you afraid.

For you have now become nothing; you see my calamity and are afraid.

You, too, have given no help. You have seen my calamity, and you are afraid.

So this is what you have now become to me. When you see something dreadful, you are afraid.

Indeed, you have now become such, You see terrors and are afraid.

For now you are nothing, You see terror and are afraid.

For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.

So this is what you have now become to me. When you see something dreadful, you are afraid.

For now ye are nothing; ye see[ my] casting down, and are afraid.

For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away.

At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me– may they not be held accountable for it.

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!

My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.

All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him– he pursues them with words, but they do not respond.

because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!” And every ship’s captain, and all who sail along the coast– seamen, and all who make their living from the sea, stood a long way offand began to shout when they saw the smoke from the fire that burned her up,“ Who is like the great city?”

The LORD says,“ I will put a curse on people who trust in mere human beings, who depend on mere flesh and blood for their strength, and whose hearts have turned away from the LORD.They will be like a shrub in the desert. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the desert, in a salt land where no one can live.

Then Jesus said to them,“ This night you will all fall away because of me, for it is written:‘ I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Foreigners living there will say,‘ We tried to heal her, but she could not be healed. Let’s leave Babylonia and each go back to his own country. For judgment on her will be vast in its proportions. It will be like it is piled up to heaven, stacked up into the clouds.’

Then the kings of the earth who committed immoral acts with her and lived in sensual luxury with her will weep and wail for her when they see the smoke from the fire that burns her up.They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say,“ Woe, woe, O great city, Babylon the powerful city! For in a single hour your doom has come!”

When Job’s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country– Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to show sympathy for him and to console him.But when they gazed intently from a distance but did not recognize him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.