अय्यूब 12
Then Job said [to his three friends],
“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 ३ परन्तु तुम्हारे समान मुझ में भी समझ है, मैं तुम लोगों से कुछ नीचा नहीं हूँ कौन ऐसा है जो ऐसी बातें न जानता हो?
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.
4 ४ मैं परमेश्वर से प्रार्थना करता था, और वह मेरी सुन लिया करता था; परन्तु अब मेरे मित्र मुझ पर हँसते हैं; जो धर्मी और खरा मनुष्य है, वह हँसी का कारण हो गया है।
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.
5 ५ दुःखी लोग तो सुखी लोगों की समझ में तुच्छ जाने जाते हैं; और जिनके पाँव फिसलते हैं उनका अपमान अवश्य ही होता है।
Those [like you] who have no troubles make fun of me; they cause those [like me] who are already suffering to have more troubles.
6 ६ डाकुओं के डेरे कुशल क्षेम से रहते हैं, और जो परमेश्वर को क्रोध दिलाते हैं, वह बहुत ही निडर रहते हैं; अर्थात् उनका ईश्वर उनकी मुट्ठी में रहता हैं;
Bandits live peacefully, and no one threatens those who cause God to become angry; their own strength is the god [that they worship].
“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.
[If you could] ask the creatures [that crawl] on the ground, or the fish in the sea, they would tell you [about God].
All of them certainly know [RHQ] that it is Yahweh who has made them with his hands.
He directs the lives of all living creatures; he gives breath to all [us] humans [to enable us to remain alive].
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].
Old people are [often] very wise, and because of having lived many years, they understand much,
but God is wise and very powerful; he has good sense and understands [everything].
14 १४ देखो, जिसको वह ढा दे, वह फिर बनाया नहीं जाता; जिस मनुष्य को वह बन्द करे, वह फिर खोला नहीं जाता।
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].
15 १५ देखो, जब वह वर्षा को रोक रखता है तो जल सूख जाता है; फिर जब वह जल छोड़ देता है तब पृथ्वी उलट जाती है।
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.
He is the one who is truly strong and wise; he rules over those who deceive others and those whom they deceive.
He [sometimes] causes [the king’s] officials to no longer be wise, and he causes judges to become foolish.
He takes from kings the robes that they wear and puts loincloths around their waists, [causing them to become slaves].
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.
He [sometimes] causes those whom others trust to be unable to speak, and he causes old men to no longer have good sense.
He causes those who have authority to be despised, and he causes those who are powerful to no longer have any power/strength.
He causes things that are hidden in the darkness to be revealed.
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.
24 २४ वह पृथ्वी के मुख्य लोगों की बुद्धि उड़ा देता, और उनको निर्जन स्थानों में जहाँ रास्ता नहीं है, भटकाता है।
He causes [some] rulers to become foolish/stupid, and then he causes them to wander around, lost, in an barren desert.
25 २५ वे बिन उजियाले के अंधेरे में टटोलते फिरते हैं; और वह उन्हें ऐसा बना देता है कि वे मतवाले के समान डगमगाते हुए चलते हैं।
They grope around in the darkness, without any light, and he causes them to stagger like [SIM] people who are drunk.”
