【Genesis 9:8,9,10,11 李杜圣经札记】鱼类无罪？

8 神晓谕挪亚和他的儿子说， 

9 我与你们和你们的后裔立约， 

10 并与你们这里的一切活物，就是飞鸟，牲畜，走兽，凡从方舟里出来的活物立约。 

11 我与你们立约，凡有血肉的，不再被洪水灭绝，也不再有洪水毁坏地了。 

ERV:

8 Then God said to Noah and his sons, 9 “I now make my promise to you and to your people who will live after you. 10 I make my promise to all the birds, and to all the cattle, and to all the animals that came out of the boat with you. I make my promise to every living thing on earth. 11 This is my promise to you: All life on the earth was destroyed by the flood. But that will never happen again. A flood will never again destroy all life on the earth.”

NIV:

8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 

评述：

既然是立约，就应该限定双方的言动。但在这里，上帝没有对人类提出要求，只是单方面地表示善意。我从吹毛求疵的角度看来，ERV版本用promise，可能更确切，而不是NIV和中文版本里的“covenant”，和“立约”。

上帝发洪水毁灭地球，忽略了鱼类。是否因为鱼类品行高洁，没有和人类同流合污过？按现代物种进化的观点，亿万年前，地球上的生命本从海洋开始。上帝用洪水淹没大地，正好返回到初始状态—— 那没有罪恶的冥蒙时代。

P.S.

NIV版本的最后两句，Never again引导的倒装句，读来如诗。美。