ইয়োবের বিবরণ 23
And Job answered and said,
Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat!
I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;
I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
Would he plead against me with [his] great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.
7 ৭ সেখানে সরল লোক হয়ত তাঁর সঙ্গে বিচার করতে পারে। এই ভাবে আমি হয়ত আমার বিচারকের থেকে চিরকালের মত মুক্তি পেতে পারি।
There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge.
Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;
9 ৯ বামদিকে, যেখানে তিনি কাজ করেন, কিন্তু আমি তাঁকে দেখতে পাই না এবং ডানদিকে, যেখানে তিনি নিজেকে লুকিয়েছেন যাতে আমি তাঁকে দেখতে না পাই।
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold [him] not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see [him] not.
10 ১০ কিন্তু তিনি জানেন আমি কোন পথ নিয়েছি; যখন তিনি আমায় পরীক্ষা করবেন, আমি সোনার মত বার হয়ে আসব।
But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.
My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.
12 ১২ তাঁর ঠোঁটের আদেশ থেকে আমি ফিরে যাই নি; তাঁর মুখের কথা আমি আমার হৃদয়ে সঞ্চয় করে রেখেছি, আমার প্রয়োজনীয় বিষয়েরও অধিক।
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.
But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do.
For he will perform [what] is appointed for me; and many such things are with him.
Therefore am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him.
For God hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.
