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V ers. 21. — Miseremini mei, miseremini mei, saltem vos amici mei, quia manus Domini tetigit me. 59. Piorum mens in adversis, ad preces, non ad iram movetur. — Hoc habere solet proprium mens piorum, quod cum injusta ab adversariis patitur, non tam ad iram quam ad preces moveatur, c ut si mode- rari eorum pravitas placide valeat, plus deprecari eligant quam irasci. Unde recte nunc dicitur: Mise- remini mei, miseremini mei, saltem vos amici mei, quia manus Domini tetigit me. Ecce eos d a quibus semper contumeliis se affligi considerat amicos vocat, quia bonis mentibus etiam ipsa fiunt prospera, quae videntur adversa.
第二十一節——「我的朋友啊，可憐我吧，可憐我吧，因為神的手攻擊我。」五十九、敬虔人的心在患難中被激動去禱告，而非發怒。敬虔人的心慣常有這特質：當它從敵人受了不義之事時，它被激動的不是發怒，而是禱告，以致若能平靜地約束對方的邪惡，他們寧願懇求而不願發怒。故此如今正確地說：「我的朋友啊，可憐我吧，可憐我吧，因為神的手攻擊我。」看哪，那些他察覺自己常被其辱罵所苦待的人，他卻稱之為朋友，因為對良善的心而言，連那些看似逆境的事也成了順境。
Verse 21.—'Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, for the hand of the Lord hath touched me.' 59. The mind of the godly in adversity is moved to prayer, not to anger.—This the mind of the godly is wont to have as its own: that when it suffers unjust things from adversaries, it is moved not so much to anger as to prayer, so that, if their perversity can be gently restrained, they choose rather to entreat than to be angry. Whence it is rightly now said: 'Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, for the hand of the Lord hath touched me.' Behold, those by whom he perceives himself ever afflicted with reproaches, he calls friends, because to good minds even those very things become prosperous which seem adverse.
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Nam perversi quique bonorum dulcedine aut convertuntur, ut redeat, et eo ipso amici sunt quo boni fiunt; aut in malitia perseverant, et in hoc quoque etiam nolentes amici sunt, quia si qua bonorum delicta sunt, ea suis persecutionibus etiam nescientes purgant. Notandum quoque, quod eis 459 quae secreto apud Deum gesta sunt, beati viri in publico verba concordant. A Satan quippe percussus fuerat, nec tamen percussionem suam Satanae tribuit, sed tactum se manu Domini appellat, sicut ipse quoque Satan dixerat: Mitte manum tuam et tange os ejus et carnem, si non in faciem benedixe- rit tibi ( Job. ii, 5).
因為一切邪惡之人，或是被善的甘美所感化而回轉，並在那使他們成為善的事上正是朋友；或是在其惡毒中執迷不悟，而即使在這事上，他們雖不情願，也仍是朋友，因為善人若有什麼過失，他們竟藉自己的逼迫將這些過失洗淨，即使他們自己並不知曉。也當注意，這蒙福之人在眾人面前所說的話，與那些在神面前暗中所行的事相符。他曾被撒但擊打，然而他並不把自己所受的擊打歸於撒但，反倒稱自己是被主的手所觸摸，正如撒但自己曾說：「你且伸手，摸他的骨頭和他的肉，他必當面棄掉你。」（伯二5）
For all the perverse are either converted by the sweetness of the good, so that they return, and in that very thing are friends whereby they become good; or they persevere in their malice, and in this too, even unwilling, are friends, because if there be any faults of the good, these they purge by their persecutions, even without knowing it. It is also to be noted that the blessed man's words in public agree with those things which were done secretly with God. He had been smitten by Satan, yet he did not ascribe his smiting to Satan, but calls himself touched by the hand of the Lord, even as Satan himself had said: 'Put forth thy hand and touch his bone and flesh, and see whether he will not bless thee to thy face' (Job ii, 5).
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Sciebat quippe vir sanctus quia et per hoc ipsum quod perversa voluntate contra se Satan egerat, potestatem non a semetipso, sed a Domino habebat. Sequitur:
因為這聖潔之人知道，連在這事上——就是撒但以邪惡的意志攻擊他——撒但的權柄也不是出於他自己，而是出於主。接著說：
For the holy man knew that even in this very thing—that Satan had acted against him with a perverse will—he had power not from himself, but from the Lord. There follows: