โยบ 34:29
When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
บันทึกการศึกษา
Study Note
Elihu's reflection on divine hiddenness — 'when he gives quietness, who can make trouble? and when he hides his face, who then can behold him?' — raises the question of divine silence as a form of sovereign activity. The question cuts both ways: when God gives peace, no adversity can disturb it; when God withdraws his face, no seeker can find him. Both aspects are expressions of divine sovereignty — God's presence and absence are equally beyond human manipulation. This teaching speaks into Job's experience of divine hiddenness that dominated the dialogue (Job 23:3, 8-9: 'if only I knew where to find him'), providing a partial answer: the hiddenness itself is a divine prerogative. The verse anticipates Isaiah 45:15's 'you are a God who hides himself' and the mystical tradition of the deus absconditus.
การแปลอื่น ๆ
When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Alike whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man:
And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, <FI>It is<Fi> the same.
...
การอ้างอิงไขว้
And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest round …
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son …
Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the …
Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; …
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the …
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no …
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, …
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,