Ayub 38
1 Maka dari dalam badai TUHAN menjawab Ayub:
Then Yahweh spoke to Job from inside a great windstorm. He said to him,
2 "Siapakah dia yang menggelapkan keputusan dengan perkataan-perkataan yang tidak berpengetahuan?
“(Who are you to question what I plan to do?/You have no right/authority to question what I plan to do.) [RHQ] You are speaking ignorantly!
3 Bersiaplah engkau sebagai laki-laki! Aku akan menanyai engkau, supaya engkau memberitahu Aku.
I want to ask you [some] questions, so, just like men prepare themselves for a difficult task [MET], prepare to answer my questions.
4 Di manakah engkau, ketika Aku meletakkan dasar bumi? Ceritakanlah, kalau engkau mempunyai pengertian!
(“Where were you/Were you there with me) [long ago] when I (laid the foundations of/created) the earth? Since you know so much, tell me [where you were at that time].
5 Siapakah yang telah menetapkan ukurannya? Bukankah engkau mengetahuinya? --Atau siapakah yang telah merentangkan tali pengukur padanya?
Do you know how I decided how large the earth would be? Do you know who stretched a measuring tape around the earth? Surely [since you think that you know so much, ] you should know that!
6 Atas apakah sendi-sendinya dilantak, dan siapakah yang memasang batu penjurunya
What supports the pillars on which the earth rests? When the stars [that shine early] in the morning sang together, and someone put in place the stone that causes the earth to stay in its place, and all the angels shouted joyfully [when they saw that happening], who laid that cornerstone? [Did you?]
7 pada waktu bintang-bintang fajar bersorak-sorak bersama-sama, dan semua anak Allah bersorak-sorai?
8 Siapa telah membendung laut dengan pintu, ketika membual ke luar dari dalam rahim? --
“When the seas poured forth from inside the earth, who prevented the water from flooding over the land?
9 ketika Aku membuat awan menjadi pakaiannya dan kekelaman menjadi kain bedungnya;
It was I, [not you, ] who caused clouds to come over the seas and caused it to become very dark [under those clouds].
10 ketika Aku menetapkan batasnya, dan memasang palang dan pintu;
I set limits for the seas, and I put barriers [so that the water would not come over the land].
11 ketika Aku berfirman: Sampai di sini boleh engkau datang, jangan lewat, di sinilah gelombang-gelombangmu yang congkak akan dihentikan!
[I pointed to the shore] and said to the water, ‘I permit you to come up to here, but I do not permit you to come any farther. Your powerful waves must stop there!’
12 Pernahkah dalam hidupmu engkau menyuruh datang dinihari atau fajar kautunjukkan tempatnya
“Job, have you [ever] commanded the morning [to begin]? Have you [ever] told the dawn to start a new day?
13 untuk memegang ujung-ujung bumi, sehingga orang-orang fasik dikebaskan dari padanya?
Have you [ever] told the dawn to spread out over the whole earth, with the result that wicked people run away from the light?
14 Bumi itu berubah seperti tanah liat yang dimeteraikan, segala sesuatu berwarna seperti kain.
When it becomes light after the dawn, the hills and the valleys become clear like the folds in a cloth.
15 Orang-orang fasik dirampas terangnya, dan dipatahkan lengan yang diacungkan.
When it becomes daylight, the wicked do not have the darkness [that they like]; [in the daylight] they no longer are able to raise up their arms, ready to hurt people.
16 Engkaukah yang turun sampai ke sumber laut, atau berjalan-jalan melalui dasar samudera raya?
“[Job, ] have you traveled to the springs [in the bottom of the ocean] from which the water in the seas comes? Have you investigated/explored the very bottom of the oceans?
17 Apakah pintu gerbang maut tersingkap bagimu, atau pernahkah engkau melihat pintu gerbang kelam pekat?
Has someone shown you the gates to the place where dead people are, the gates to the place where it is very dark?
18 Apakah engkau mengerti luasnya bumi? Nyatakanlah, kalau engkau tahu semuanya itu.
Do you know how big the earth is? Tell me, if you know all these things!
19 Di manakah jalan ke tempat kediaman terang, dan di manakah tempat tinggal kegelapan,
“Where is the road to the place where light comes from? And [can you tell me] where darkness lives?
20 sehingga engkau dapat mengantarnya ke daerahnya, dan mengetahui jalan-jalan ke rumahnya?
Can take me to its home? Do you know where the road is that goes there?
21 Tentu engkau mengenalnya, karena ketika itu engkau telah lahir, dan jumlah hari-harimu telah banyak!
I am sure that you know these things, because you [talk as though you] were born before the time when all things were created; you [must] be very old!
22 Apakah engkau telah masuk sampai ke perbendaharaan salju, atau melihat perbendaharaan hujan batu,
“Have you entered the place where I store the snow and the place where I keep the hail?
23 yang Kusimpan untuk masa kesesakan, untuk waktu pertempuran dan peperangan?
I store the snow and the hail [in order that I can use them to help my people] when [they have] troubles, in times when [they are fighting] wars [DOU].
24 Di manakah jalan ke tempat terang berpencar, ke tempat angin timur bertebar ke atas bumi?
And where is the road to the place from which I cause the lightning to flash? Where is the place from where the east wind begins to blow over all the earth?
25 Siapakah yang menggali saluran bagi hujan deras dan jalan bagi kilat guruh,
Who created the channels in which the rain comes down from the sky? Who makes the roads for the thunder/lightning?
26 untuk memberi hujan ke atas tanah di mana tidak ada orang, ke atas padang tandus yang tidak didiami manusia;
Who causes rain to fall in the desert, in places where no one lives?
27 untuk mengenyangkan gurun dan belantara, dan menumbuhkan pucuk-pucuk rumput muda?
Who sends the rain that gives moisture/water to areas where nothing has grown, with the result that grass begins to grow again?
28 Apakah hujan itu berayah? Atau siapakah yang menyebabkan lahirnya titik air embun?
Does the rain have a father? Does the dew [also] have a father?
29 Dari dalam kandungan siapakah keluar air beku, dan embun beku di langit, siapakah yang melahirkannya?
And from whose womb does ice come [in the (winter/cold season)]? Who gives birth to the frost that comes down from the sky?
30 Air membeku seperti batu, dan permukaan samudera raya mengeras.
[In the winter, ] the water [freezes and] becomes hard, like a rock, and the surface of lakes becomes frozen.
31 Dapatkah engkau memberkas ikatan bintang Kartika, dan membuka belenggu bintang Belantik?
“[Job], can you fasten the chains that hold the stars together in clusters/groups in the sky?
32 Dapatkah engkau menerbitkan Mintakulburuj pada waktunya, dan memimpin bintang Biduk dengan pengiring-pengiringnya?
Can you tell the stars when they should shine? Can you guide [the stars in the groups in the northern sky whose names are] the Big Bear and the Little Bear?
33 Apakah engkau mengetahui hukum-hukum bagi langit? atau menetapkan pemerintahannya di atas bumi?
Do you know the laws that the stars must obey? Can you cause those same laws to rule [everything here] on the earth?
34 Dapatkah engkau menyaringkan suaramu sampai ke awan-awan, sehingga banjir meliputi engkau?
“Can you shout to the clouds and cause rain to pour down on you?
35 Dapatkah engkau melepaskan kilat, sehingga sabung-menyabung, sambil berkata kepadamu: Ya?
Can you cause flashes of lightning to come down and strike where you want it to strike? Do those flashes say to you, ‘Where do you want us to strike next?’
36 Siapa menaruh hikmat dalam awan-awan atau siapa memberikan pengertian kepada gumpalan mendung?
Who enables the clouds to know when they should cause rain to fall?
37 Siapa dapat menghitung awan dengan hikmat, dan siapa dapat mencurahkan tempayan-tempayan langit,
And who is skilled/wise enough to be able to count the clouds? Who can tilt the jugs of water in the sky [to cause the rain to fall],
38 ketika debu membeku menjadi logam tuangan, dan gumpalan tanah berlekat-lekatan?
with the result that the dry ground becomes hard as the dry (clods/lumps of soil) [become wet and] stick together?
39 Dapatkah engkau memburu mangsa untuk singa betina, dan memuaskan selera singa-singa muda,
“When a lioness and her cubs crouch in their dens or hide in a thicket, [waiting for some animal to pass by that they can kill, ] can you find animals for a lioness to kill so that [she and] her cubs can [eat the meat and] not be hungry any more?
40 kalau mereka merangkak di dalam sarangnya, mengendap di bawah semak belukar?
41 Siapakah yang menyediakan mangsa bagi burung gagak, apabila anak-anaknya berkaok-kaok kepada Allah, berkeliaran karena tidak ada makanan?
Who provides dead animals for crows, when the baby crows are calling out to me [for food], [when they are so weak] because of their lack of food [that] they (stagger around/can hardly stand up) [in their nests]?”
