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V ers. 11. — Igitur audientes tres amici Job omne malum quod accidisset ei, venerunt singuli de loco suo: Eliphaz Themanites, Baldad Suhites, et Sophar Naa- mathites. Condixerant enim sibi, ut pariter venientes visitarent eum, et consolarentur. 19. Amicorum Job recta intentio indiscretione fus- catur. — Qui ex condicto ad afflicti consolationem veniunt, et inter se et erga percussum quantae chari- ratis fuerint, demonstrantur. Quamvis et per hoc, quod Scriptura eos tanti viri amicos fuisse testatur, quia boni studii et rectae fuerint intentionis ostendi- tur; sed tamen haec ipsa illorum intentio, eis ad verba prorumpentibus, ante districti judicis oculos, suborta indiscretione, fuscatur.
Verse 11. Now Job's three friends, hearing of all the evil that had befallen him, came each one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had agreed together to come and visit him at the same time, and to console him. The upright intention of Job's friends is darkened by indiscretion. Those who come by agreement to console the afflicted man are shown to have been of how great a charity both among themselves and toward the stricken one. Yet although by this—that Scripture testifies they were the friends of so great a man—it is shown that they were of good zeal and right intention; nevertheless this very intention of theirs, as they burst forth into words, before the eyes of the strict Judge, is darkened by an indiscretion that had arisen.
第十一節。約伯的三個朋友聽說有這一切的災禍臨到他身上，就各人從本處而來：提幔人以利法、書亞人比勒達、拿瑪人瑣法。他們曾彼此約定，要一同來探望他，安慰他。約伯朋友正直的意念因無分辨而變得晦暗。這些照約定前來安慰受苦者的人，顯明他們彼此之間並對那受擊打者存有何等的愛心。雖然藉此—就是聖經見證他們是這般偉大之人的朋友—顯明他們有美好的熱心與正直的意念；然而他們這意念本身，當他們爆發出言語時，在那嚴厲審判者的眼前，因隨之而生的無分辨而變得晦暗。