Job 19
1 Then Job answered,
Tetapi Ayub menjawab:
2 “How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
"Berapa lama lagi kamu menyakitkan hatiku, dan meremukkan aku dengan perkataan?
3 You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
Sekarang telah sepuluh kali kamu menghina aku, kamu tidak malu menyiksa aku.
4 If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
Jika aku sungguh tersesat, maka aku sendiri yang menanggung kesesatanku itu.
5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
Jika kamu sungguh hendak membesarkan diri terhadap aku, dan membuat celaku sebagai bukti terhadap diriku,
6 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
insafilah, bahwa Allah telah berlaku tidak adil terhadap aku, dan menebarkan jala-Nya atasku.
7 “Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Sesungguhnya, aku berteriak: Kelaliman!, tetapi tidak ada yang menjawab. Aku berseru minta tolong, tetapi tidak ada keadilan.
8 He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
Jalanku ditutup-Nya dengan tembok, sehingga aku tidak dapat melewatinya, dan jalan-jalanku itu dibuat-Nya gelap.
9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Ia telah menanggalkan kemuliaanku dan merampas mahkota di kepalaku.
10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
Ia membongkar aku di semua tempat, sehingga aku lenyap, dan seperti pohon harapanku dicabut-Nya.
11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
Murka-Nya menyala terhadap aku, dan menganggap aku sebagai lawan-Nya.
12 His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
Pasukan-Nya maju serentak, mereka merintangi jalan melawan aku, lalu mengepung kemahku.
13 “He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
Saudara-saudaraku dijauhkan-Nya dari padaku, dan kenalan-kenalanku tidak lagi mengenal aku.
14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
Kaum kerabatku menghindar, dan kawan-kawanku melupakan aku.
15 Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
Anak semang dan budak perempuanku menganggap aku orang yang tidak dikenal, aku dipandang mereka orang asing.
16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.
Kalau aku memanggil budakku, ia tidak menyahut; aku harus membujuknya dengan kata-kata manis.
17 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
Nafasku menimbulkan rasa jijik kepada isteriku, dan bauku memualkan saudara-saudara sekandungku.
18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
Bahkan kanak-kanakpun menghina aku, kalau aku mau berdiri, mereka mengejek aku.
19 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
Semua teman karibku merasa muak terhadap aku; dan mereka yang kukasihi, berbalik melawan aku.
20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Tulangku melekat pada kulit dan dagingku, dan hanya gusiku yang tinggal padaku.
21 “Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
Kasihanilah aku, kasihanilah aku, hai sahabat-sahabatku, karena tangan Allah telah menimpa aku.
22 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Mengapa kamu mengejar aku, seakan-akan Allah, dan tidak menjadi kenyang makan dagingku?
23 “Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
Ah, kiranya perkataanku ditulis, dicatat dalam kitab,
24 That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
terpahat dengan besi pengukir dan timah pada gunung batu untuk selama-lamanya!
25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
Tetapi aku tahu: Penebusku hidup, dan akhirnya Ia akan bangkit di atas debu.
26 After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,
Juga sesudah kulit tubuhku sangat rusak, tanpa dagingkupun aku akan melihat Allah,
27 whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.
yang aku sendiri akan melihat memihak kepadaku; mataku sendiri menyaksikan-Nya dan bukan orang lain. Hati sanubariku merana karena rindu.
28 If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
Kalau kamu berkata: Kami akan menuntut dia dan mendapatkan padanya sebab perkaranya!,
29 be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
takutlah kepada pedang, karena kegeraman mendatangkan hukuman pedang, agar kamu tahu, bahwa ada pengadilan."
