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511 V ers. 28. — Decernes rem, et veniet tibi. 27. Falsa hominum de adversis et prosperis judicia. — Hoc esse proprium infirmantium judicium solet, ut tanto quempiam existiment justum, quanto hunc adipisci conspiciunt omne quod appetit, cum vide- licet noverimus nonnunquam bona terrena justis sub- trahi, quae largo munere tribuuntur injustis, quia et desperatis aegris medici quidquid poposcerint dari praecipiunt, et eis quos reduci posse ad salutem prae- vident quae appetunt dari contradicunt. Sed si dicta haec Eliphaz de donis spiritalibus intulit, sciendum quod res decernitur et venit cum virtus quae ex desiderio appetitur, c largiente Deo, etiam effectu prosperatur.
第二十八節。——你要定意作一事，這事就必為你成就。人論禍福的虛謬判斷。——這慣常是心思軟弱之人特有的判斷：越看見某人得著他所渴慕的一切，就越把他看為義——然而我們當然知道，屬地的美物有時從義人身上被奪去，卻以豐厚的恩賜賜給不義的人；因為醫生吩咐把絕症病人所要求的一切都給他，卻拒絕把所渴求的給那些他們預見能被救回健康的人。但以利法若是論屬靈的恩賜說這些話，那就當知道：一事被定意並且成就，乃是當那從渴慕中所尋求的德行，藉神的賜予，在其果效上也得亨通之時。
Verse 28. — Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall come to thee. The false judgments of men concerning adversity and prosperity. — This is wont to be the peculiar judgment of the weak-minded: to esteem anyone the more just, the more they behold him attaining all that he desires — whereas, of course, we know that sometimes earthly goods are withdrawn from the just, which are bestowed by a lavish gift upon the unjust; because physicians order to be given to desperate patients whatever they demand, but refuse to give what they crave to those whom they foresee can be brought back to health. But if Eliphaz spoke these words concerning spiritual gifts, it should be known that a thing is decreed and comes when the virtue that is sought out of desire is, by God's bestowing, also prospered in its effect.