Job 12
1 Then Job said [to his three friends],
Ayub menjawab, "Memang, kamu ini mewakili umat manusia. Jika kamu mati, hikmat akan mati juga.
2 “You (talk as though/You think) [SAR] that you are the people [whom everyone should listen to], and that when you die, there will be no more wise people.
3 But I have as much good sense as you do; I am (not less wise than/certainly as wise as [LIT]) you. Certainly everyone knows [RHQ] all that you have said.
Aku pun manusia yang berakal budi; semua yang kamu katakan itu sudah kumengerti. Lagipula, siapa yang tak tahu semua itu? Jadi, jangan sangka kamu melebihi aku!
4 My friends all laugh at me now. Previously I habitually requested God to help me, and he answered/helped me. I am righteous, a very godly man [DOU], but everyone laughs at me.
Aku ditertawakan teman dan sahabat, padahal aku ini benar dan tanpa cacat. Dahulu Allah menjawab doaku, bilamana aku berseru minta dibantu.
5 Those [like you] who have no troubles make fun of me; they cause those [like me] who are already suffering to have more troubles.
Kamu menghina orang celaka, sedang hidupmu aman; orang yang hampir jatuh kamu beri pukulan.
6 Bandits live peacefully, and no one threatens those who cause God to become angry; their own strength is the god [that they worship].
Tetapi hidup perampok tidak terancam; orang yang berani menentang Allah, hidup tentram. Padahal dewa yang menjadi andalan mereka, hanyalah kekuatan sendiri saja.
7 “But ask the wild animals [what they know about God], and [if they could speak] they would teach you. [If you could] ask the birds, they would tell you.
Bertanyalah kepada burung dan binatang lainnya maka kamu akan diberi pengajaran oleh mereka.
8 [If you could] ask the creatures [that crawl] on the ground, or the fish in the sea, they would tell you [about God].
Mintalah keterangan kepada makhluk di bumi dan di lautan, maka kamu akan menerima penjelasan.
9 All of them certainly know [RHQ] that it is Yahweh who has made them with his hands.
Siapa di antara semua itu tidak menyadari, bahwa pencipta mereka adalah Allah sendiri?
10 He directs the lives of all living creatures; he gives breath to all [us] humans [to enable us to remain alive].
Dia mengatur hidup segala makhluk yang ada; Dia berkuasa atas nyawa setiap manusia.
11 And when we [SYN] hear what other people [like you] say, we [RHQ] think carefully about what they say [to determine what is good and what is bad], like we [SYN] taste food [to determine what is good and what is bad].
Seperti lidahku suka mengecap makanan yang nyaman, begitulah telingaku suka mendengar perkataan.
12 Old people are [often] very wise, and because of having lived many years, they understand much,
Kabarnya, hikmat ada pada orang yang tinggi umurnya, tapi hikmat dan kekuatan ada pada Allah saja. Konon pengertian ada pada orang yang lanjut usia, namun pengertian dan wewenang ada pada Allah jua!
13 but God is wise and very powerful; he has good sense and understands [everything].
14 If he tears [something] down, no one can rebuild it; if he puts someone in prison, no one can open [the prison doors to allow that person to escape].
Apa yang dibongkar-Nya tak dapat dibangun lagi siapa yang ditawan-Nya tak dapat bebas kembali.
15 When he prevents rain from falling, everything dries up. When he causes a lot of rain to fall, [the result is that] there are floods.
Ia membendung air, maka kering dan tandus semuanya; Ia melepaskannya mengalir, maka banjir melanda!
16 He is the one who is truly strong and wise; he rules over those who deceive others and those whom they deceive.
Allah itu kuat, tangguh dan jaya! Si penipu dan yang tertipu ada di bawah kekuasaan-Nya.
17 He [sometimes] causes [the king’s] officials to no longer be wise, and he causes judges to become foolish.
Dicabut-Nya hikmat para penguasa pemerintahan, dan para pemimpin dijadikan-Nya bahan tertawaan.
18 He takes from kings the robes that they wear and puts loincloths around their waists, [causing them to become slaves].
Digulingkan-Nya raja dan ditawan-Nya mereka;
19 He takes from priests the sacred clothes that they wear, [with the result that they no longer can do their work], and takes power from those who rule others.
direndahkan-Nya imam-imam dan para pemuka.
20 He [sometimes] causes those whom others trust to be unable to speak, and he causes old men to no longer have good sense.
Dibungkam-Nya orang yang fasih bicara, dicabut-Nya hikmat orang-orang tua.
21 He causes those who have authority to be despised, and he causes those who are powerful to no longer have any power/strength.
Dipermalukan-Nya orang yang terkemuka; diambil-Nya kedaulatan mereka yang berkuasa.
22 He causes things that are hidden in the darkness to be revealed.
Diterangi-Nya tempat-tempat yang suram; disinari-Nya bayangan-bayangan hitam kelam.
23 He causes some nations to become very great, and [later] he destroys them; he causes the territory of some nations to become much larger, and [later] he causes them to be defeated and their people to be scattered.
Bangsa-bangsa dibuat-Nya berkembang dan makmur, lalu dibinasakan-Nya mereka sampai hancur.
24 He causes [some] rulers to become foolish/stupid, and then he causes them to wander around, lost, in an barren desert.
Dijadikan-Nya para pemimpin kebingungan, sehingga mereka mengembara tanpa tujuan.
25 They grope around in the darkness, without any light, and he causes them to stagger like [SIM] people who are drunk.”
Mereka meraba-raba di dalam kegelapan, dan terhuyung-huyung bagai orang mabuk minuman.
