Job 21
1 Then Job answered,
तब अय्यूबले जवाफ दिए र भने,
2 “Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
“मेरा वचनलाई ध्यान दिएर सुन्नुहोस्, र यो तपाईंहरूले मलाई दिने सान्त्वना होस् ।
3 Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on.
मलाई सुन्नुहोस्, र म पनि बोल्नेछु । मैले बोलेर सकेपछि निरन्तर गिल्ला गर्नुहोस् ।
4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
मेरो बारेमा, के मैले मानिसलाई गुनासो गरेको हो र? म किन अधैर्य नहुनू?
5 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
मलाई हेर्नुहोस् र छक्क पर्नुहोस्, र आफ्नो हातले आफ्नो मुख छुनुहोस् ।
6 When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
मैले आफ्नो दुःखको बारेमा सोच्दा म त्रसित हुन्छु, र थरथरीले मेरो शरीरलाई नै समाउँछ ।
7 “Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
दुष्ट मानिसहरू किन निरन्तर बाँच्छन्, बुढा हुन्छन् र सामर्थ्यमा शक्तिशाली हुन्छन्?
8 Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
तिनीहरूका सन्तानहरू तिनीहरूकै आँखाको सामु स्थापित हुन्छन्, र तिनीहरूका छोराछोरी तिनीहरूकै आँखाको सामु स्थापित हुन्छन् ।
9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
तिनीहरूका घरहरू डरबाट सुरक्षित हुन्छन् । न त परमेश्वरको छडी नै तिनीहरूमाथि परेको हुन्छ ।
10 Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
तिनीहरूका बहर मिसिन्छन् । त्यसो गर्न चुक्दैनन् । तिनीहरूको गाई बियाउँछ, र तुहिंदैन ।
11 They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
तिनीहरूले आफ्ना केटाकेटीलाई बगालझैं बाहिर पठाउँछन्, र तिनीहरूका छोराछोरी नाच्छन् ।
12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
तिनीहरूले खैँजडी र वीणाको धुनमा गाउँछन्, र बाँसुरीको सङ्गीतमा रमाउँछन् ।
तिनीहरूले आफ्नो समय समृद्धिमा बिताउँछन्, र तिनीहरू शान्त बएर तल चिहानमा जान्छन् । (Sheol h7585)
14 They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
तिनीहरूले परमेश्वरलाई भन्छन्, 'हामीबाट जानुहोस्, किनकि तपाईंका मार्गहरूका कुनै ज्ञान हामी चाहँदैनौं ।
15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
सर्वशक्तिमान् को हो र हामीले उहाँको आराधना गर्नू? हामीले उहाँमा प्रार्थना चढायौं भने हामीले के लाभ पाउँछौं र?'
16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
हेर्नुहोस्, तिनीहरूको समृद्धि तिनीहरूका आफ्नै हातमा छैन र? दुष्ट मानिसहरूको सल्लाहमा मेरो कुनै सरोकार छैन ।
17 “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
कतिपल्ट दुष्ट मानिसहरूको बत्ती निभाइन्छ, अथवा तिनीहरूका विपत्ति तिनीहरूमाथि नै आउँछ? परमेश्वरले आफ्नो क्रोधमा तिनीहरूलाई कतिपल्ट दुःख पठाउनुहुन्छ?
18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
कतिपल्ट बतासको सामु तिनीहरू सुकेका झारपात, अथवा आँधीले उडाएर लैजाने भुसझैं भएका छन्?
19 You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
तपाईंहरू भन्नुहुन्छ, 'मानिसको दोषको दण्ड परमेश्वरले उसका छोराछोरीलाई दिनुहुन्छ ।' त्यो उसैले भोग्नुपरोस्, जसले गर्दा उसले आफ्नो दोष थाहा पाओस् ।
20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
उसका आँखाले उसको आफ्नो विनाश देखून्, र सर्वशक्तिमान्को क्रोध उसले पिउनुपरोस् ।
21 For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
किनकि उसको आफ्नै आयु सकिएपछि, उसले आफ्नो परिवारको के वास्ता गर्छ र?
22 “Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?
परमेश्वरले त उच्चमा हुनेहरूको पनि न्याय गर्नुहुन्छ, तब के कसैले उहाँलाई ज्ञान सिकाउन सक्छ र?
23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
एक जना मानिस पूरा बलियो अवस्थामा, बिलकुल शान्ति र चैनमा मर्छ ।
24 His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
उसको शरीर ह्रष्टपुष्ट हुन्छ, र उसको हड्डीहरूको मासी ताजा हुन्छ ।
25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
अर्को मानिस मनको तिक्ततामा नै मर्छ, जसले कुनै असल कुराको अनुभव कदापि गरेको छैन ।
26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
तिनीहरू समान रूपमा धूलोमा पल्टिन्छन् । तिनीहरू दुवैलाई किराहरूले ढाक्छन् ।
27 “Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
हेर्नुहोस्, तपाईंहरूका विचार, अनि मेरो कुभलो गर्ने तपाईंहरूका मार्गहरू म जान्दछु ।
28 For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
किनकि तपाईंहरू भन्नुहुन्छ, 'अहिले त्यो राजकुमारको घर कहाँ छ? दुष्ट मानिस कुनै समयमा बस्ने गरेको पाल कहाँ छ?'
29 Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,
यात्रा गर्ने मानिसहरूलाई तपाईंहरूले कहिल्यै सोध्नुभएको छैन? तिनीहरूले भन्ने प्रमाण तपाईंहरूलाई थाहा छैन,
30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?
कि दुष्ट मानिस विपत्तिको दिनमा जोगिन्छ, र क्रोधको दिनमा उसलाई कतै सारेर जोगाइन्छ?
31 Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?
दुष्ट मानिसको सामु उसको मार्गलाई कसले दोषी ठहराउँछ र? उसको गरेको कामको बदला कसले लिन सक्छ र?
32 Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.
तापनि उसलाई चिहानमा लगिनेछ । मानिसहरूले उसको चिहानको रेखदेख गर्नेछन् ।
33 The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
मैदानको माटोका डल्ला उसलाई गुलियो हुनेछ । अनगिन्ती मानिस उसको अगि-अगि हुनाले, सबै मानिस उसको पछिपछि जानेछन् ।
34 So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”
तपाईंहरूका व्यर्थका कुराले मलाई कसरी सान्त्वना दिन्छ, किनकि तपाईंहरूको जवाफमा झुटबाहेक केही छैन?”
