અયૂબ 15
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6 ૬ મારા નહિ, પણ તારા પોતાના જ શબ્દો તને દોષિત ઠરાવે છે; હા, તારી વાણી જ તારી વિરુદ્ધ સાક્ષી પૂરે છે.
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
8 ૮ શું તેં ઈશ્વરના ગૂઢ ડહાપણ વિષે સાંભળ્યું છે ખરું? શું તેં બધી બુદ્ધિ તારા પોતાનામાં સમાવી રાખી છે?
Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?
What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.
Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,
That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare
(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;
Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):
20 ૨૦ દુર્જન તેના આખા જીવન પર્યંત પીડા ભોગવે છે, તે પોતાનાં નિયત કરેલાં વર્ષો દરમ્યાન કષ્ટથી પીડાય છે.
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.
He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 ૨૪ સંકટ તથા વેદના તેને ભયભીત કરે છે; યુદ્ધને માટે સજ્જ થયેલા રાજાની જેમ તેઓ તેના પર વિજય મેળવે છે.
Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25 ૨૫ કેમ કે તેણે ઈશ્વરની સામે પોતાનો હાથ ઉઠાવ્યો છે અને સર્વશક્તિમાન ઈશ્વરની સામે તે અહંકારથી વર્તે છે.
Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;
He runneth upon him with a [stiff] neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;
27 ૨૭ આ સાચું છે, જો કે તેણે પોતાનું મુખ તેના શરીરની ચરબીથી ઢાંક્યું છે અને તેની કૂખો પર ચરબીનાં પડ બાઝ્યાં છે.
Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;
And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God’s] mouth shall he go away.
Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.
It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.
33 ૩૩ દ્રાક્ષના વેલાની જેમ તે પોતાની કાચી દ્રાક્ષો પાડી નાખશે; અને જૈતૂનના વૃક્ષની જેમ તેનાં ફૂલ ખરી પડશે.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
35 ૩૫ દુષ્ટ લોકો નુકસાનનો ગર્ભ ધારણ કરે છે. અને અન્યાયને જન્મ આપે છે; તેઓનું પેટ ઠગાઈને સિદ્ધ કરે છે.”
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit.
