which is humble and not close to divine.

谦虚谨慎不要企图成为神灵
His hope rests simply with God not with himself.

希望取决于上帝而不是自己
When he tries to take the things into his own hands,

如果将某物据为己有
and in the process,to contravene the will of God,

这个过程便违背了上帝的意愿
only terrible things can happen to him.

灾难将降临到他的头上
It's very interesting,I think, that in the eighteenth century,

我觉得这很有趣在十八世纪
Rousseau,who himself seems to me to have been

卢梭在我看来他曾经是
a kind of like a poisoned apple in the history of the human race

一个人类历史中的毒苹果
oddly,revives that biblical view,if you think about it.

因为他使圣经观点得到诡异的复兴
His view is man was happy

他认为在社会形成以前
and good before the invention of society,

人类是幸福快乐的
which society corrupts man and takes away from him his happiness.

社会使人类堕落并剥夺了人们的幸福