ইয়োবের বিবরণ 15
Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,
Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,
reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit?
Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?
Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.
Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: and thy lips shall testify against thee.
What! art thou the first man that was born? or wert thou established before the hills?
Or hast thou heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used thee as [his] counsellor? and has wisdom come [only] to thee?
For what knowest thou, that, we know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also?
Truly among us [are] both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than thy father.
Thou hast been scourged for [but] few of thy sins: thou hast spoken haughtily [and] extravagantly.
What has thine heart dared? or what have thine eyes [aimed at],
that thou hast vented [thy] rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from [thy] mouth?
For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? or, [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just?
Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.
Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.
But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have seen;
18 ১৮ সেই বিষয় যা জ্ঞানী লোকেরা তাদের বাবার থেকে পেয়েছে, সেই বিষয় যা তাদের পূর্ব্বপুরুষেরা গোপন রাখে নি।
things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.
19 ১৯ এরাই তাদের পূর্বপুরুষ ছিল, যাদেরকে শুধু এই দেশ দেওয়া হয়েছে এবং যাদের মধ্যে কোন বিদেশী লোক ছিল না।
To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them.
All the life of the ungodly [is spent] in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.
And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.
Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.
And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.
24 ২৪ দুঃখ এবং যন্ত্রণা তাকে ভয় দেখায়; তারা তার বিরুদ্ধে প্রবল হয়, যেমন একজন রাজা যুদ্ধের জন্য তৈরী হয়।
Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank.
25 ২৫ কারণ সে ঈশ্বরের বিরুদ্ধে হাত বাড়িয়েছে এবং সর্বশক্তিমানের বিরুদ্ধে অহঙ্কারীদের মত আচরণ করেছে,
For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.
And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.
For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.
28 ২৮ এবং জনশূন্য শহরে বাস করত, সেই সব বাড়িতে বাস করত যাতে এখন কোন মানুষ বাস করে না এবং যা ঢিবি হওয়ার জন্য তৈরী ছিল।
And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.
Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.
30 ৩০ সে অন্ধকার থেকে বেরবে না; একটা আগুন তার শাখা গুলোকে শুকিয়ে দেবে; ঈশ্বরের মুখের নিঃশ্বাসে সে চলে যাবে।
Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.
Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.
His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.
And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.
For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.
And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.
