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V ers. 9. — Nunquid frustra Job timet Deum Nonne tu vallasti eum, ac domum ejus, universamque substan- tiam per circuitum? Operibus manuum ejus benedixisti, et possessio illius crevit in terra. 67. Suis viribus homo non stat. — Ac si aperte di- cat: Cur laudas quem protegendo roboras? Despe- cto enim me, dignus tuis laudibus homo esset, si suis contra me viribus staret. Unde mox et malitiose de homine expetit, quod tamen protector hominis be- nigne concedit. Nam subditur:
第九節：——約伯敬畏神豈是無故呢？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？他手所作的，你都賜福；他的家產也在地上增多。六十七、人不靠自己的力量站立。——彷彿他明說：你為何稱讚那藉你保護而得堅固的人呢？因為若我被輕視，這人若能靠自己的力量對抗我而站立，才配得你的稱讚。因此他隨即惡毒地就這人有所索求，然而這人的保護者卻仁慈地應允了。因為接著說：
Ver. 9. — Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast thou not fenced him about, and his house, and all his substance round about? Thou hast blessed the works of his hands, and his possession hath increased in the land. 67. Man does not stand by his own strength. — As if he plainly said: Why dost thou praise him whom thou strengthenest by protecting? For, I being despised, the man would be worthy of thy praises, if he stood by his own strength against me. Whence presently and maliciously he demands concerning the man that which nevertheless the protector of the man benignly grants. For it is subjoined: