अय्यूब 31
A covenant, I solemnised for mine eyes, —How then could I gaze upon a virgin?
Or what would have been my portion of GOD from above? Or what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
Is there not calamity, for the perverse? and misfortune, for the workers of iniquity?
Would, he, not see my ways? and of all my steps, take account?
Verily I walked not in falsity, nor did my foot haste unto deceit: —
Let him weigh me in balances of righteousness, —and let GOD take note of mine integrity!
7 ७ यदि मेरे पग मार्ग से बहक गए हों, और मेरा मन मेरी आँखों की देखी चाल चला हो, या मेरे हाथों में कुछ कलंक लगा हो;
If my goings have swerved from the way, —and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain,
Let me sow but, another, eat. And let, what I have springing up, be uprooted!
If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, or, by the door of my neighbour, I have lien in wait,
Let my wife, grind to another, and, over her, let others bend!
Surely that had been a shameful thing! and that an iniquity for the judges!
Surely, a fire, had that been, which, unto destruction, would have consumed, and, of all mine increase, had it torn up the root.
If I refused the right of my servant, or my handmaid, when they contended with me,
What then could I have done when GOD rose up? And, when he visited, what could I have answered him?
15 १५ क्या वह उसका बनानेवाला नहीं जिसने मुझे गर्भ में बनाया? क्या एक ही ने हम दोनों की सूरत गर्भ में न रची थी?
Did not he who, in the womb, made me, make him? And is not he who formed us in the body one?
If I withheld—from pleasure—the poor, or, the eyes of the widow, I dimmed;
Or, used to eat my morsel alone, so that the fatherless did not eat thereof;
18 १८ (परन्तु वह मेरे लड़कपन ही से मेरे साथ इस प्रकार पला जिस प्रकार पिता के साथ, और मैं जन्म ही से विधवा को पालता आया हूँ);
Surely, from my youth, he grew up to me, as to a father, and, from my birth, I acted as guide to her:
If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;
If his loins did not bless me, or if, with the fleece of my lambs, he did not warm himself;
If I shook—against the fatherless—my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help,
Let, my shoulder, from the shoulder-blade, fall, and, my arm, from the upper bone, be broken;
23 २३ क्योंकि परमेश्वर के प्रताप के कारण मैं ऐसा नहीं कर सकता था, क्योंकि उसकी ओर की विपत्ति के कारण मैं भयभीत होकर थरथराता था।
For, a dread unto me, was calamity from GOD, and, from his majesty, I could not escape.
If I made gold my stay, and, to precious metal, said, My confidence!
If I rejoiced because great was my substance, and, an abundance, my hand had discovered;
If I looked at the sun, when it flashed forth light, or at the moon, majestically marching along;
And befooled secretly was my heart, so that my hand kissed my mouth,
28 २८ तो यह भी न्यायियों से दण्ड पाने के योग्य अधर्म का काम होता; क्योंकि ऐसा करके मैंने सर्वश्रेष्ठ परमेश्वर का इन्कार किया होता।
That too, had been a judicial iniquity, For I should have been false to GOD, above.
If rejoiced in the misfortune of him that hated me, or exulted when calamity found him; —
30 ३० (परन्तु मैंने न तो उसको श्राप देते हुए, और न उसके प्राणदण्ड की प्रार्थना करते हुए अपने मुँह से पाप किया है);
Neither did I suffer my palate to sin, by asking, with a curse, for his life:
31 ३१ यदि मेरे डेरे के रहनेवालों ने यह न कहा होता, ‘ऐसा कोई कहाँ मिलेगा, जो इसके यहाँ का माँस खाकर तृप्त न हुआ हो?’
If the men of my household have not said, Oh for some of his flesh—we cannot get filled,
Outside, the sojourner lodged not for the night, My doors—to the wayfarer, I threw open.
If I covered, like Adam, my transgressions, by hiding in my bosom mine iniquity,
34 ३४ इस कारण कि मैं बड़ी भीड़ से भय खाता था, या कुलीनों से तुच्छ किए जाने से डर गया यहाँ तक कि मैं द्वार से बाहर न निकला-
Then let me be made to tremble at a great throng, yea let, the contempt of families, terrify me, so that, keeping silence, I shall not go out of the door!
35 ३५ भला होता कि मेरा कोई सुननेवाला होता! सर्वशक्तिमान परमेश्वर अभी मेरा न्याय चुकाए! देखो, मेरा दस्तखत यही है। भला होता कि जो शिकायतनामा मेरे मुद्दई ने लिखा है वह मेरे पास होता!
Oh that I had one to hear me, Lo! my crossmark, May, the Almighty, answer me! And would that, a book, mine opponent had written!
Oh! would I not, upon my shoulder, lift it, or bind it as a crown upon me;
The number of my footsteps, I would declare to him, Like a noble, would I draw near to him.
If, against me, my ground used to cry out, and, together, my ridges did weep;
If, the strength thereof, I used to eat, without payment, and, the soul of the holders thereof, I made groan;
Instead of wheat, let there come forth bramble, and, instead of barley, a bad-smelling weed! Ended are the words of Job.
