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I bid.— Et loquentes id quod justum est, judicate. 5. Nil inconsulte loquendum. Is namque qui lo- quitur, c dum de verbis suis auditoris sententiam exspectat, quasi ejus judicio supponitur a quo audi- tur. Qui igitur in dictis suis reprobari metuit, ipse prius debet examinare quod dicit, quatenus inter cor et linguam aequus quidam discretusque arbiter sedeat, subtiliter pensans, si recta verba cor offerat, quae, utiliter suscipiens, ad auditorum judicium lingua perducat. Beatus igitur Job sua contra amicos agens, sed contra haereticos nostra denuntians, praecipitatio- nem loquentium reprehendat, atque ad eorum men- tem verba colligat, dicens: Loquentes id quod justum est, judicate.
同處——並且要判斷，說出公正的話。五、凡事不可不加思量而說。因為說話的人，當他等候聽者對自己話語的評斷時，就彷彿被置於聽他之人的判斷之下。所以凡怕自己言語被責的人，自己當先察驗所說的話，好使在心與舌之間有某位公平謹慎的仲裁者端坐，細細衡量心是否獻出正確的話，然後舌頭有益地接受這些話，帶到聽者的判斷之前。所以，蒙福的約伯既為自己的緣故對付朋友，卻為我們的緣故控告異端者，就讓他責備說話者的鹵莽，並向他們的心思斟酌言語，說：要判斷，說出公正的話。
The same place.— And judge, speaking what is just. 5. Nothing is to be spoken inconsiderately. For he who speaks, while he awaits the hearer's verdict upon his own words, is as it were subjected to the judgment of the one by whom he is heard. He therefore who fears to be reproved in his sayings ought himself first to examine what he says, so that between the heart and the tongue some fair and discreet arbiter may sit, subtly weighing whether the heart offers right words, which, usefully receiving them, the tongue may bring forth to the judgment of the hearers. Let blessed Job therefore, pleading his own cause against his friends, but denouncing ours against heretics, reprove the precipitation of speakers, and gather words to their mind, saying: Judge, speaking what is just.
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Ac si aperte diceret: d Si in eo quod ad nos egressum locutionis exitis, reprehendi non vultis, intus justitiae libram tenete, ut tanto foris quod dicitur ex veritatis pondere placeat, quanto hoc in- terius trutina discretionis pensat. Et quia hi erga aliena dicta rectum judicium exerunt, qui judicare prius propria sciunt, postquam dixit, Loquentes id quod justum est, judicate y apte mox subdit:
彷彿他公開地說：在那從我們發出到你們的言語之出口上，你們若不願被責，就當在裡面持定公義的天平，好使外面所說的話越藉裡面審慎的秤稱量，就越以真理的分量令人喜悅。而因為凡先知如何判斷自己言語的人，才對別人的言語行使正確的判斷，所以他說了「要判斷，說出公正的話」之後，就恰當地隨即補上：
As if he openly said: If in that outlet of speech which comes forth from us to you, you do not wish to be reproved, hold within the balance of justice, so that what is said may please outwardly by the weight of truth in proportion as this is weighed inwardly by the scale of discretion. And because those exercise a right judgment upon the sayings of others who first know how to judge their own, after he said, Judge, speaking what is just, fitly he straightway subjoins: