ഇയ്യോബ് 15
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?
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 ൬ ഞാനല്ല, നിന്റെ സ്വന്തവായ് നിന്നെ കുറ്റം വിധിക്കുന്നു; നിന്റെ അധരങ്ങൾ തന്നെ നിന്റെനേരെ സാക്ഷീകരിക്കുന്നു.
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?
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 ൯ ഞങ്ങൾക്ക് അറിയാത്തതായി നിനക്ക് എന്ത് അറിയാം? ഞങ്ങൾക്ക് മനസ്സിലാകാത്തതായി നീ എന്താണ് ഗ്രഹിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത്?
What do you know that we do not 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,
13 ൧൩ നീ ദൈവത്തിന്റെ നേരെ തിരിയുകയും നിന്റെ വായിൽനിന്ന് ഇങ്ങനെയുള്ള വാക്കുകൾ പുറപ്പെടുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു.
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):
20 ൨൦ ദുഷ്ടൻ ജീവപര്യന്തം അതിവേദനയോടെ ഇരിക്കുന്നു; ഉപദ്രവകാരിക്ക് വച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന ആണ്ടുകൾ തികയുവോളം തന്നെ.
the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
22 ൨൨ അന്ധകാരത്തിൽനിന്ന് മടങ്ങിവരുമെന്ന് അവൻ വിശ്വസിക്കുന്നില്ല; അവൻ വാളിനിരയാകാൻ നിയമിക്കപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നു.
He does not believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
23 ൨൩ അവൻ അപ്പം തെണ്ടിനടക്കുന്നു; ‘അത് എവിടെ കിട്ടും’ എന്ന് ചോദിക്കുന്നു? അന്ധകാരദിവസം തനിക്ക് അടുത്തിരിക്കുന്നു എന്ന് അവൻ അറിയുന്നു.
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.
He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
29 ൨൯ അവൻ ധനവാനാകുകയില്ല; അവന്റെ സമ്പത്ത് നിലനില്‍ക്കുകയില്ല; അവരുടെ വിളവ് നിലത്തേക്കു കുലച്ചു മറികയുമില്ല.
He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
30 ൩൦ ഇരുളിൽനിന്ന് അവൻ അകന്നു പോകുകയില്ല; അഗ്നിജ്വാല അവന്റെ കൊമ്പുകളെ ഉണക്കിക്കളയും; തിരുവായിലെ ശ്വാസംകൊണ്ട് അവൻ കടന്നുപോകും.
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 ൩൩ മുന്തിരിവള്ളിയിൽ നിന്ന് എന്നപോലെ അവന്റെ പക്വമാകാത്ത പഴങ്ങൾ കൊഴിഞ്ഞുവീഴും. ഒലിവുവൃക്ഷംപോലെ പൂ പൊഴിക്കും.
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.”
