अय्यूब 31
I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my 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 step hath turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to my hands;
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
If I despised the cause of my male or female servant, when they contended with me;
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer 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 that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten of it;
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);
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb; )
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
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 destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gained much;
If I have beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
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।
This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or have lifted up myself when evil 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 have I allowed my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
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 tent have not said, O that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom:
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-
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not 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!
O that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
I would declare to him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near to him.
If my land crieth against me, or its furrows likewise complain;
If I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life:
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
