अय्यूब 9
And Job answered, and said:
2 २ “मैं निश्चय जानता हूँ कि बात ऐसी ही है; परन्तु मनुष्य परमेश्वर की दृष्टि में कैसे धर्मी ठहर सकता है?
Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?
5 ५ वह तो पर्वतों को अचानक हटा देता है और उन्हें पता भी नहीं लगता, वह क्रोध में आकर उन्हें उलट-पुलट कर देता है।
Who hath removed mountains, and they whom he overthrew in his wrath, knew it not.
Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Who commandeth tile sun and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars as it were under a seal:
Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea.
Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.
10 १० वह तो ऐसे बड़े कर्म करता है, जिनकी थाह नहीं लगती; और इतने आश्चर्यकर्म करता है, जो गिने नहीं जा सकते।
Who doth things great and incomprehensible, and wonderful, of which there is no number.
11 ११ देखो, वह मेरे सामने से होकर तो चलता है परन्तु मुझ को नहीं दिखाई पड़ता; और आगे को बढ़ जाता है, परन्तु मुझे सूझ ही नहीं पड़ता है।
If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart I shall not understand.
If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so?
God, whose wrath no mall can resist, and under whom they stoop that bear up the world.
What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?
15 १५ चाहे मैं निर्दोष भी होता परन्तु उसको उत्तर न दे सकता; मैं अपने मुद्दई से गिड़गिड़ाकर विनती करता।
I, who although I should have any just thing, would not answer, but would make supplication to my judge.
16 १६ चाहे मेरे पुकारने से वह उत्तर भी देता, तो भी मैं इस बात पर विश्वास न करता, कि वह मेरी बात सुनता है।
And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.
For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause.
He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.
19 १९ यदि सामर्थ्य की चर्चा हो, तो देखो, वह बलवान है और यदि न्याय की चर्चा हो, तो वह कहेगा मुझसे कौन मुकद्दमा लड़ेगा?
If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness for me.
20 २० चाहे मैं निर्दोष ही क्यों न हूँ, परन्तु अपने ही मुँह से दोषी ठहरूँगा; खरा होने पर भी वह मुझे कुटिल ठहराएगा।
If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I would shew myself innocent, he shall prove me wicked.
Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life.
One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.
If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.
24 २४ देश दुष्टों के हाथ में दिया गया है। परमेश्वर उसके न्यायियों की आँखों को मूँद देता है; इसका करनेवाला वही न हो तो कौन है?
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?
25 २५ “मेरे दिन हरकारे से भी अधिक वेग से चले जाते हैं; वे भागे जाते हैं और उनको कल्याण कुछ भी दिखाई नहीं देता।
My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.
They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.
If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.
I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.
But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?
If I be washed as it were with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:
Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me,
32 ३२ क्योंकि परमेश्वर मेरे तुल्य मनुष्य नहीं है कि मैं उससे वाद-विवाद कर सकूँ, और हम दोनों एक दूसरे से मुकद्दमा लड़ सके।
For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.
There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.
I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I am in fear.
