अय्यूब 38
1 तब परमप्रभुले अय्यूबलाई प्रचण्ड आँधीबाट बोलाउनुभयो र यसो भन्नुभयो,
And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,
2 “ज्ञानविनाका शब्दहरू बोलेर, योजनाहरूमा अन्धकार ल्याउने यो को हो?
Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?
3 अब एक जना मानिसले झैं आफ्नो कम्मर कस्, किनकि म तँलाई प्रश्नहरू सोध्नेछु, र तैंले जवाफ दिनुपर्छ ।
Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
4 मैले पृथ्वीको जग बसाल्दा तँ कहाँ थिइस्? तँसित धेरै समझशक्ति छ भने मलाई भन् ।
Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.
5 यसको नाप कसले निधो गर्यो? तँलाई थाहा भए मलाई भन् । यसमाथि कसले नाप्ने धागो टाँग्यो?
By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?
6 के कुरा माथि यसका जगहरू बसालिए? यसको कुने-ढुङ्गो कसले बसाल्यो?
On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,
7 कति बेला बिहानका ताराहरूले एकसाथ गाए, र परमेश्वरका सबै छोराहरूले आनन्दले चिच्च्याए ।
When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?
8 गर्भबाट निस्केझैं समुद्र फुटेर निस्कँदा, कसले त्यसका ढोकाहरू बन्द गर्यो?
Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;
9 कति बेला मैले त्यसलाई बादलको कपडाले ढाकें, अनि निस्पट्ट अन्धकारलाई त्यसको पटुका बनाएँ?
When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,
10 त्यस बेला मैले समुद्रमा मेरो सिमाना तोकिदिएँ, र यसका गजबारहरू तथा ढोकाहरू लगाइदिएँ,
Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;
11 अनि मैले त्यसलाई भनें, 'तँ यहाँसम्म आउन सक्छस्, तर यसभन्दा पर होइन । तेरा छालहरूको अहङ्कारको सिमा म यहाँ तोकिदिन्छु ।'
And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
12 के तैंले बिहानीलाई आज्ञा दिएको, अथवा मिरमिरेलाई त्यसको ठाउँ चिनाएको छस्,
Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;
13 जसको कारणले त्यसले पृथ्वीको छेउ समातोस्, अनि दुष्टहरूलाई त्यहाँबाट हटाउनलाई हल्लाओस्?
So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?
14 छाप मुनिको माटोको आकार बदलिएझैं स्वरूपमा पृथ्वी बद्लिन्छ । एउटा लुगा कच्चेको धारझैं त्यसमा भएका सबै कुरा प्रस्ट देखिन्छन् ।
It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;
15 दुष्टहरूबाट तिनीहरूको 'ज्योति' लगिन्छ । तिनीहरूको उठाइएको पाखुरा भाँचिन्छ ।
And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.
16 के तँ समुद्रको पानीको मूलमा गएको छस्? के तँ गहिरोभन्दा गहिरो ठाउँमा हिंडेको छस्?
Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?
17 के मृत्युका ढोकाहरू तँलाई देखाइएको छ? के तैंले मृत्युका छायाका ढोकाहरू देखेको छस्?
Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
18 के पृथ्वीको विस्तृत फैलावटलाई तैंले बुझेको छस्? तँलाई यो सबै थाहा छ भने मलाई भन् ।
Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.
19 ज्योतिको बासस्थानमा जाने बाटो कता— अन्धकारको बारेमा, त्यसको ठाउँ कहाँ बस्छ?
Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;
20 ज्योति र अन्धकारलाई तिनीहरूको काम गर्ने ठाउँमा तैंले लिएर जान सक्छस्? तिनीहरूका घरमा तिनीहरूलाई फर्काएर लाने बाटो तैंले चिन्न सक्छस्?
So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?
21 त्यति बेला नै तेरो जन्म भएको भए निस्सन्देह, तँलाई थाहा हुन्छ । तेरो उमेर धेरै भइसकेको हुन्छ!
No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.
22 हिउँका भण्डारहरूभित्र तँ पसेको छस्? अथवा असिनाका भण्डारहरू तैंले देखेको छस्?
Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,
23 यी कुराहरू मैले सङ्कष्टको समयको निम्ति, अनि संघर्ष र युद्धको दिनको लागि साँचेको छु ।
Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?
24 बिजुली चम्केर जाने बाटो कुन हो, अथवा पूर्वीय बतास कहाँबाट पृथ्वीको चारैतिर जान्छ?
Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?
25 झरीको बाडीको लागि कसले नहरहरू खनेको छ, अथवा गर्जनको लागि कसले बाटो बनाएको छ,
By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;
26 कुनै व्यक्ति नरहने ठाउँ र कोही नभएको उजाड-स्थानमा पानी पार्नलाई,
Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;
27 सर्वनाश भएको र उजाड ठाउँहरूलाई हरियाली ल्याउनलाई, र भूमिबाट घाँस उमार्नलाई?
To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
28 के झरीको कुनै बुबा छ, अर्थात् शीतको थोपालाई जन्माउने को हो?
Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?
29 कसको गर्भबाट बरफको जन्म भयो? आकाशबाट झर्ने तुसारोलाई कसले जन्मायो?
Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?
30 पानीले आफैलाई लुकाउँछ र ढुङ्गाझैं बन्छ । महासागरको सतह जमेको हुन्छ ।
The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.
31 के तैंले किरकिटी ताराहरूलाई साङ्लाले बाँध्न सक्छस्? अर्थात् मृगशिराको पुञ्जलाई फुकाल्न सक्छस्?
Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?
32 के तैंले तारामण्डलहरूलाई तिनीहरूको आफ्नो ऋतुमा प्रकट गराउन सक्छस्? के तैंले सप्तर्षि तारा र त्यसको दललाई डोर्याउन सक्छस्?
Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?
33 के तैंले आकाशको शासन गर्ने नियमहरूलाई जानेको छस्? के तैंले आकाशको नियमलाई पृथ्वीमाथि बसाउन सक्छस्?
Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?
34 के तैंले आफ्नो सोर बादलसम्म पुर्याउन सक्छस्, जसले गर्दा झरीको प्रसस्त भलले तँलाई ढाक्न सक्छ?
Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?
35 के तैँल बिजुलीका चमकहरूलाई पठाउन सक्छस् जसले गर्दा ती बाहिर जान सकून्, तिनले तँलाई यसो भनून्, 'हामी यहाँ छौं?'
Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?
36 बादलमा कसले बुद्धि राखेको छ, अथवा तुवाँलोलाई समझशक्ति दिएको छ?
Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?
37 कसले आफ्नो सिपद्वारा बादललाई गन्न सक्छ? कसले आकाशको पानीको भण्डारबाट खन्याउन सक्छ,
By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,
38 जति बेला धुलो कडा डल्लो बन्छ, अनि माटोका डल्लाहरू एकसाथ टाँसिएर बस्छ?
When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?
39 के सिंहनीको निम्ति तैंले सिकार खोज्न सक्छस्, अर्थात् त्यसका डमरूहरूको भोकलाई तृप्त पार्न सक्छस्,
Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,
40 जति बेला तिनीहरू आफ्नो खोरमा ढुकिबस्छन्, अनि गुप्तमा लुकेर पर्खिरहन्छन्?
When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?
41 कागका बचेराहरूले परमेश्वरमा पुकारा गर्दा, र खानेकुराको अभावले भाउन्न हुँदा, कसले तिनलाई आहार जुटाइदिन्छ?
Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?
