Job 35
1 And Elihu went on to say:
Elihu nastavi svoju besjedu i reče:
2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
“Zar ti misliš da pravo svoje braniš, da pravednost pred Bogom dokazuješ,
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
kada mu kažeš: 'Što ti je to važno, i ako griješim, što ti činim time?'
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
Na sve to ja ću odgovorit' tebi i prijateljima tvojim ujedno.
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Po nebu se obazri i promatraj! Gledaj oblake: od tebe su viši!
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
Ako griješiš, što si mu uradio, prijestupom svojim što si mu zadao?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
Ako si prav, što si dodao njemu i što iz ruke tvoje on dobiva?
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Opakost tvoja tebi slične pogađa i pravda tvoja čovjeku koristi.
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
Ali kad ispod teškog stenju jarma, kad vapiju na nasilje moćnika,
10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
nitko ne kaže: 'Gdje je Bog, moj tvorac, koji noć pjesmom veselom ispunja,
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
umnijim nas od zvijeri zemskih čini i mudrijima od ptica nebeskih?'
12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Tad vapiju, al' on ne odgovara poradi oholosti zlikovaca.
13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
Ali kako je isprazno tvrditi da Bog njihove ne čuje vapaje, da pogled na njih ne svraća Svesilni!
14 How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
A kamoli tek kada ti govoriš: 'On ne vidi mene, parnica moja pred njime stoji, a ja na nj još čekam.'
15 and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
Ili: 'Njegova srdžba ne kažnjava, nimalo on za prijestupe ne mari.'
16 So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
Isprazno tada otvara Job usta i besjede gomila nerazumne.”
