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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
4 ೪ ಇದಲ್ಲದೆ ನೀನು ದೇವರ ಭಯವನ್ನು ಹಾಳುಮಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವೆ, ನೀನು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಪಾತಾಳಕ್ಕೆ ತಳ್ಳಿ ನನ್ನ ದೇವಭಕ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ಕ್ಷಯಗೊಳಿಸುತ್ತೀ.
Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
6 ೬ ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ಅಪರಾಧಿಯೆಂದು ನಿರ್ಣಯಿಸುವವನು ನಾನಲ್ಲ, ನಿನ್ನ ಮಾತುಗಳು ಕೂಡ ನಿನಗೆ ವಿರುದ್ಧವಾಗಿ ಸಾಕ್ಷಿ ಕೊಡುತ್ತವೆ, ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ಅಪರಾಧಿಯನ್ನಾಗಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
8 ೮ ದೇವರ ಆಲೋಚನಾ ಸಭೆಯಲ್ಲಿದ್ದುಕೊಂಡು ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಳಿದ್ದನ್ನು ಕೇಳಿದ್ದೀಯಾ? ಜ್ಞಾನವನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ನಿನ್ನ ಕಡೆಗೆ ಸೆಳೆದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದೀಯಾ?
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare
(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):
the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
21 ೨೧ ಭಯ ಅಪಾಯಗಳ ಸಪ್ಪಳವು ಅವನ ಕಿವಿಯಲ್ಲೇ ಇರುವುದು, ತಾನು ಸುಖವಾಗಿರುವಾಗಲೂ ಸೂರೆಗಾರನು ತನ್ನ ಮೇಲೆ ಬೀಳುವನೆಂದು ಭಯಪಡುವನು.
A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
23 ೨೩ ‘ರೊಟ್ಟಿ ಎಲ್ಲಿ?’ ಎಂದು ಹುಡುಕುತ್ತಾ ಅಲೆದಾಡುವನೆಂಬುದಾಗಿ ನಿಶ್ಚಯಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು, ಆ ಕತ್ತಲಿನ ದಿನವು ತನ್ನ ಪಕ್ಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿದ್ಧವಾಗಿದೆ ಎಂದು ತಿಳಿದುಕೊಂಡಿರುವನು.
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
28 ೨೮ ಅವನು ಹಾಳು ಪಟ್ಟಣಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸೇರಿಕೊಂಡು, ‘ದಿಬ್ಬಗಳಾಗಿ ಹೋಗಲಿ ಯಾರೂ ವಾಸಿಸದಿರಲಿ’ ಎಂದು ಶಾಪಹೊಂದಿದ ಮನೆಗಳೊಳಗೆ ವಾಸವಾಗಿದ್ದನು.
He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
29 ೨೯ ಇಂಥವನು ಐಶ್ವರ್ಯವಂತನಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ, ಅವನ ಆಸ್ತಿಯು ಸ್ಥಿರವಾಗಿ ನಿಲ್ಲದು. ಅವನ ಪ್ರತಿ ಫಲವು ಭಾರದಿಂದ ಭೂಮಿಯ ಕಡೆಗೆ ಬಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ.
He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
30 ೩೦ ಕತ್ತಲೊಳಗಿಂದ ಅವನು ಪಾರಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ, ಕಿಚ್ಚು ಅವನ ಕೊಂಬೆಗಳನ್ನು ಒಣಗಿಸುವುದು, ದೇವರ ಶ್ವಾಸದಿಂದ ಒಣಗಿ ಹೋಗುವನು.
He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
33 ೩೩ ಮಾಗದ ಹಣ್ಣುಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳೆದುಕೊಂಡ ದ್ರಾಕ್ಷಿಯ ಬಳ್ಳಿಯಂತೆ ಇರುವನು, ಎಣ್ಣೆಯ ಮರದ ಹಾಗೆ ತನ್ನ ಹೂವುಗಳನ್ನು ಉದುರಿಸಿಬಿಡುವನು.
He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
