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287 1 Perversi recta ut prava adversantium dicta rejiciunt, secus boni. Perversae mentes si semel ad studium contrarietatis eruperint, sive pravum, seu rectum quid a contradicentibus audiant, adversis hoc responsionibus impugnant, quia cum persona per contrarietatem displicet, nec recta quae protulerit placent. At contra bonorum corda, quibus in odium non venit persona, sed culpa, sic perversa dijudicant, ut recta quae dicuntur assumant. Discernendis qnippe contradicentium sensibus aequissimi arbitri resident, et sic male prolata respuunt, ut tamen approbent quae ex veritate cognoscunt. Solet namque inter spi- narum multitudinem, etiam de frugis semine spica succrescere.
乖僻的人把反對者正直的話當作歪曲加以拒絕；良善的人卻不如此。乖僻的心思一旦發作出好爭辯的熱心，無論從反對他們的人聽見歪曲的或正直的話，都以敵對的回應加以攻擊，因為當一個人因對立而使他們不悅時，就連他所說出的正直之言也不能討他們喜歡。但相反地，良善人的心，所恨的不是那人而是那過失，就這樣判斷乖僻之事，以致接納所說的正直之言。因為他們像最公平的仲裁者，坐著分辨那些反對之人話語的含義，這樣拒絕那說得不當的，卻仍認可那從真理中所認出的。因為在許多荊棘之間，常有麥穗從收成的穀種中長出來。
The perverse reject the upright sayings of their opponents as though they were crooked; the good do otherwise. Perverse minds, if once they have broken forth into a zeal for contradiction, whether they hear something crooked or upright from those who contradict them, assail it with hostile replies, because when a person displeases them through opposition, not even the upright things he brings forth please them. But on the contrary, the hearts of the good, to whom not the person but the fault comes into hatred, so judge perverse things as to take up the upright things that are said. For they sit as most equitable arbiters in discerning the meanings of those who contradict, and so reject what is ill spoken as nevertheless to approve what they recognize from the truth. For it is wont, among a multitude of thorns, that an ear of corn should spring up even from a grain of the harvest.
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Cauta ergo manu operantis agendum est, ut dum spina tollitur, spica nutriatur, quatenus qui studet eradicare quod pungit, noverit servare quod reficit. Unde.et beatus Job, quia Baldad Suhites recte per inquisitionem dixerat: Nunquid Deus sup- plantat judicium, aut Omnipotens 288 subvertit quod justum est ( Job. viii, 3)? quia vera in hypocritas ro- bustaque protulerat, bene haec et contra pravos ge- neraliter prolata conspiciens, studium propriae defen- sionis calcat, atque audita protinus approbat, di- cens:
因此，必須以作工者謹慎的手來行事，好使荊棘被除去時，麥穗得以滋養，以致那力求根除刺人之物的，也曉得保存那使人得復甦之物。因此，蒙福的約伯，因比勒達書亞人曾以查問的方式正直地說：神豈能偏離公理麼？全能者豈能顛倒公義麼（伯八3）？——因他把真實而剛健的話說出來反對偽善者——約伯既看出這些話也是普遍地說出來反對乖僻之人的，就踐踏了自我辯護的熱心，隨即認可他所聽見的，說：
With a cautious hand of the worker, therefore, must one act, that while the thorn is taken away, the ear of corn may be nourished, so that he who strives to root out what pricks may know how to preserve what refreshes. Whence too blessed Job, because Bildad the Shuhite had rightly said, by way of inquiry: Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty subvert what is just (Job 8:3)?—because he had brought forth things true and robust against hypocrites—beholding well that these things had also been generally uttered against the perverse, tramples down the zeal of his own defense, and forthwith approves what he has heard, saying: