अय्यूब 24

1 दुष्‍ट मानिसहरूको न्याय गर्ने समय सर्वशक्तिमान्‌ले किन तोक्‍नुभएको छैन? परमेश्‍वरप्रति विश्‍वासयोग्य हुनेहरूले उहाँको न्यायको दिन आएको किन देखेका छैनन्?

“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

2 यस्ता दुष्‍ट मानिसहरू पनि छन् जसले साँध-सिमानाका निसानाहरू हटाउँछन् । यस्ता दुष्‍ट मानिसहरू पनि छन् जसले बगालहरूलाई जबरजस्ती लैजान्‍छन् र तिनलाई आफ्नै खर्कहरूमा राख्छन् ।

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

3 अनाथहरूका गधाहरूलाई तिनीहरूले जबरजस्‍ती लैजान्छन् । विधवाको गोरुलाई तिनीहरूले बन्‍धकका रूपमा लैजान्छन् ।

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

4 दरिद्र मानिसहरूका उनीहरूका मार्गबाट तिनीहरूले जबरजस्‍ती हटाउँछन् । पृथ्वीका सबै गरिब मानिसहरू तिनीहरूबाट आफूलाई लुकाउँछन्।

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

5 हेर्नुहोस्, उजाड-स्थानका वन-गधाहरूझैं, यी गरिब मानिसहरू होसियारी भएर खानेकुरा खोज्‍दै आफ्नो काममा जान्छन् । सायद अराबाले तिनीहरूका छोराछोरीलाई खानेकुरा जुटाउनेछ ।

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

6 गरिब मानिसहरूले अरूका खेतबारीमा रातमा कटनी गर्छन् । तिनीहरूले दुष्‍टहरूका फसलबाट टिप्‍न छुटेका दाख बटुल्छन् ।

They cut their food in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

7 तिनीहरू रातभरि लुगाबिना नाङ्गै बस्छन् । जाडोमा ढाक्‍नलाई तिनीहरूसित केही हुँदैन ।

They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

8 तिनीहरू पहाडका झरीले भिजेका छन् । तिनीहरूका बासस्‍थान नभएको हुनाले तिनीहरू ठुला ढुङ्‍गाको छेउमा पल्टिन्छन् ।

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

9 यस्ता दुष्‍ट मानिसहरू छन् जसले अनाथहरूलाई आफ्‍ना आमाको कोखबाट खोसेर लैजान्छन्, र गरिब मानिसहरूका बालबालिका बन्‍धकको रूपमा लैजान्छन् ।

There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

10 तर गरिब मानिसहरू लुगाविना नाङ्गै जान्छन् । तिनीहरू आफै भोकाएको भए पनि, तिनीहरूले अरूका अन्‍नका बिटाहरू बोक्‍छन् ।

so that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

11 गरिब मानिसहरूले ती दुष्‍टहरूका पर्खालभित्र तेल पेल्छन् । तिनीहरूले दुष्‍ट मानिसहरूका दाखको कोल पेल्छन्, तर तिनीहरू आफै तिर्खाउँछन् ।

They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

12 सहरबाट मर्न लागेको मानिसको क्रन्दन निस्कन्छ, अनि घाइतेको गलाले मदतको लागि चिच्‍च्याउँछ । तर परमेश्‍वरले दोष लगाउनुहुन्‍न ।

From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

13 केही दुष्‍ट मानिसहरूले ज्योतिको विरुद्धमा विद्रोह गर्छन् । तिनीहरूले यसका मार्गहरू जान्‍दैनन्, न त तिनीहरू यसका मार्गहरूमा बस्छन् ।

“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

14 उज्यालो हुनुअगि हत्यारा उठ्छ, र त्यसले गरिब तथा दरिद्र मानिसहरूलाई मार्छ । रातमा ऊ चोरजस्तो हुन्छ ।

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

15 साथै, व्यभिचारीका आँखाले साँझलाई पर्खेर बस्‍छ । उसले भन्छ, 'कुनै आँखाले मलाई देख्‍नेछैन ।' उसले आफ्नो भेष बद्लन्छ ।

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.

16 अन्धकारमा दुष्‍टहरू घर फोरेर भित्र पस्छन्, तर दिउँसोको समयमा तिनीहरू लुक्छन् । तिनीहरूले उज्यालोको वास्ता गर्दैनन् ।

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

17 तिनीहरू सबैका लागि निस्पट्ट अँध्यारो बिहानझैं हुन्छ । किनभने तिनीहरू निस्पट्ट अँध्यारोका त्रासहरूका मित्र हुन् ।

For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

18 तापनि पानीको सतहमा देखा पर्ने फिँजझैं तिनीहरू चाँडै नै बितेर जान्‍छन् । तिनीहरूको खेतको हिस्सा श्रापित छ । तिनीहरूका दाखबारीहरूमा काम गर्न कोही पनि जाँदैन ।

“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

19 जसरी खडेरी र तापले हिउँलाई पगालेर पानी बानउँछ, त्यसरी नै पाप गरेकाहरूलाई चिहानले लैजान्‍छ । (Sheol h7585)

Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned. (Sheol h7585)

20 उसलाई जन्माउने गर्भले उसलाई बिर्सिनेछ । किराले त्यसलाई मिठो मानेर खानेछ । फेरि उसको सम्झना गरिनेछैन । यसरी एउटा रुखलाई झैं दुष्‍टतालाई टुक्राटुक्रा पारिनेछ ।

The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

21 बच्‍चा नजन्माएकी बाँझी स्‍त्रीलाई दुष्‍टले निलिहाल्‍छ । उसले विधवाको निम्‍ति कुनै असल कुरा गर्दैन ।

He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

22 तापनि परमेश्‍वरले शक्तिशाली मानिसहरूलाई आफ्नो शक्तिले घिसार्नुहुन्छ । उहाँ खडा हुनुहुन्छ, तर जीवनमा तिनीहरूलाई बलियो पार्नुहुन्‍न ।

Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

23 तिनीहरू सुरक्षित छन्, र तिनीहरू यसबारे खुसी छन् भनी परमेश्‍वरले तिनीहरूलाई सोच्न दिनुहुन्छ, तर उहाँका आँखा तिनीहरूका मार्गमा हुन्‍छन् ।

God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

24 यी मानिसहरू उच्‍च पारिएका छन् । तापनि क्षणभरमै तिनीहरू खतम हुनेछन् । वास्तवमा, तिनीहरूलाई निम्‍न स्‍तरमा पर्‍याइनेछ । अरू सबैलाई झैं तिनीहरूलाई पनि जम्मा गरिनेछ । अन्‍नको बालाझैं तिनीहरूलाई काटिनेछ ।

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

25 यस्तो होइन भने, कसले मलाई झुटा प्रमाणित गर्न सक्छ? कसले मेरो वचनलाई निरर्थक बनाउन सक्छ?

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”