Job 13
1 Lo, my eye hath seen all [this], my ear hath heard and understood it.
Očima svojim sve to ja vidjeh, ušima svojim čuh i razumjeh.
2 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior to you.
Sve što vi znate znadem to i ja, ni u čemu od vas gori nisam.
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Zato, zborit' moram sa Svesilnim, pred Bogom svoj razlog izložiti.
4 But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value.
Jer, kovači laži vi ste pravi, i svi ste vi zaludni liječnici!
5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace and it would be your wisdom.
Kada biste bar znali šutjeti, mudrost biste svoju pokazali!
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Dokaze mi ipak poslušajte, razlog mojih usana počujte.
7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Zar zbog Boga govorite laži, zar zbog njega riječi te prijevarne?
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Zar biste pristrano branit' htjeli Boga, zar biste mu htjeli biti odvjetnici?
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?
Zar bi dobro bilo da vas on ispita? Zar biste ga obmanuli k'o čovjeka?
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Kaznom preteškom on bi vas pokarao poradi potajne vaše pristranosti.
11 Shall not his excellence make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Zar vas veličanstvo njegovo ne plaši i zar vas od njega užas ne spopada?
12 Your remembrances [are] like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Razlozi su vam od pepela izreke, obrana je vaša obrana od blata.
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].
Umuknite sada! Dajte da govorim, pa neka me poslije snađe što mu drago.
14 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
Zar da meso svoje sam kidam zubima? Da svojom rukom život upropašćujem?
15 Though he shall slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him.
On me ubit' može: nade druge nemam već da pred njim svoje držanje opravdam.
16 He also [shall be] my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him.
I to je već zalog mojega spasenja, jer bezbožnik preda nj ne može stupiti.
17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
Pažljivo mi riječi poslušajte, nek' vam prodre u uši besjeda.
18 Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Gle: ja sam pripremio parnicu, jer u svoje sam pravo uvjeren.
19 Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall expire.
Tko se sa mnom hoće parničiti? - Umuknut ću potom te izdahnut'.
20 Only do not two [things] to me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
Dvije mi molbe samo ne uskrati da se od tvog lica ne sakrivam:
21 Withdraw thy hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
digni s mene tešku svoju ruku i užasom svojim ne straši me.
22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Tada me pitaj, a ja ću odgovarat'; ili ja da pitam, ti da odgovaraš.
23 How many [are] my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Koliko počinih prijestupa i grijeha? Prekršaj mi moj pokaži i krivicu.
24 Why hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy enemy?
Zašto lice svoje kriješ sad od mene, zašto u meni vidiš neprijatelja?
25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Zašto strahom mučiš list vjetrom progonjen, zašto se na suhu obaraš slamčicu?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
O ti, koji mi gorke pišeš presude i teretiš mene grijesima mladosti,
27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly to all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
koji si mi noge u klade sapeo i koji bdiš nad svakim mojim korakom i tragove stopa mojih ispituješ!
28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
Život mi se k'o trulo drvo raspada, k'o haljina što je moljci izjedaju!
