Ayub 35
1 Ayub, engkau keliru jika menyangka bahwa di mata Allah engkau tak bersalah.
Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?
3 Engkau khilaf jika bertanya, apa pengaruh dosamu terhadap-Nya; dan keuntungan apa yang kauterima kalau engkau tidak berbuat dosa.
For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4 Akulah yang akan memberi jawaban kepadamu dan juga kepada teman-temanmu itu.
I will answer you, and your companions with you.
5 Lihatlah ke langit dan perhatikan betapa tingginya awan-awan.
Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
6 Jika engkau berdosa, Allah tidak akan rugi. Jika salahmu banyak, Ia tak terpengaruhi.
If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?
7 Dengan berbuat baik, Allah tidak kaubantu. Sungguh, Ia tak memerlukan apa pun darimu.
If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
8 Hanya sesamamu yang dirugikan oleh dosa-dosamu. Dia juga yang beruntung oleh kebaikanmu.
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
9 Orang-orang yang ditindas, akan mengerang; mereka berteriak minta pertolongan.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10 Tetapi bukan kepada Allah, Penciptanya yang memberi harapan di kala mereka berduka,
But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
11 dan yang memberi manusia akal budi melebihi burung dan hewan di bumi.
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12 Orang-orang tertindas itu berseru, tetapi Allah diam karena mereka jahat dan penuh kesombongan.
There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Sia-sialah mereka berteriak sekuat tenaga; Yang Mahakuasa tidak melihat atau mendengar mereka.
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 Ayub, lebih-lebih lagi kalau engkau berkata bahwa engkau tidak melihat Dia, bahwa perkaramu sudah ada di hadapan-Nya dan engkau menanti-nantikan Dia!
Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.
15 Sangkamu Allah tidak memberi hukuman dan tidak memperhatikan pelanggaran.
But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
16 Sia-sialah pembicaraanmu engkau teruskan; jelaslah, engkau tak tahu apa yang kaukatakan.
Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
