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1 तब एलीपज तेमानीले जवाफ दिए र भने,
Then answered Eliphaz the Themanite, and said,
2 “कसैलाई तपाईंसित कुरा गर्ने प्रयास गर्‍यो भने के तपाईं अधैर्य बन्‍नुहुन्छ? तर कसले आफैलाई बोल्नबाट रोक्‍न सक्छ?
If we essay to address a word to thee, wilt thou be wearied? yet who is able to refrain from speaking?
3 हेर्नुहोस्, तपाईंले धेरैलाई शिक्षा दिनुभएको छ । तपाईंले दुर्बल हातहरूलाई बलियो पार्नुभएको छ ।
Behold, thou hast [ere this] corrected many, and weak hands thou wast wont to strengthen.
4 तपाईंका वचनहरूले त्‍यस्‍तोलाई सम्‍हालेको छ जो पतन हुँदै थियो। तपाईंले कमजोर घुँडाहरूलाई दरिलो पार्नुभएको छ ।
Him that stumbled thy words used to uphold, and to sinking knees thou gavest vigor.
5 तर अहिले सङ्कष्‍ट तपाईंमा आएको छ, र तपाईं थकित हुनुहुन्छ । यसले तपाईंलाई छोएको छ, र तपाईंलाई कष्‍ट भएको छ ।
Yet now, when it cometh to thee, thou art wearied: it toucheth even thee, and thou art terrified.
6 के तपाईंको डर तपाईंको निश्‍चयता, अनि तपाईंका मार्गहरूका सत्यनिष्ठा तपाईंको आशा होइन र?
Is not then thy fear of God still thy confidence, thy hope equal to the integrity of thy ways?
7 कृपा गरी यस विषयमा सोच्नुहोस्: निर्दोष हुँदा पनि कुनै व्‍यक्‍ति कहिलै नष्‍ट भएको छ र? अर्थात् सोझा मानिसहरू कहिले मारिएका थिए र?
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous destroyed?
8 जे मैले देखेको छु त्‍यसअनुसार, अधर्म जोत्‍नेहरू र कष्‍ट छर्नेहरूले नै त्यसको कटनी गर्छन् ।
Even as I have seen, that those who plough wrong-doing, and sow trouble, have to reap the same.
9 परमेश्‍वरको सासले तिनीहरू नष्‍ट हुन्छन् । उहाँको क्रोधको बिष्‍फोटले तिनीहरू भस्म हुन्छन् ।
Before the breathing of God they perish, and before the breath of his nostrils they come to their end.
10 सिंहको गर्जन, हिंस्रक सिंहको सोर र जवान सिंहहरूका दाँत— ती भाँचिएका छन् ।
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11 सिकारको अभावले बुढो सिंह नष्‍ट हुन्छ । सिंहनीका डमरुहरू जताततै छरपष्‍ट भएका हुन्‍छन् ।
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness have to scatter themselves abroad.
12 यति बेला कुनै कुरा गुप्‍तमा मकहाँ ल्याइयो, र मेरो कानले यसको बारेमा कानेखुसी सुन्यो ।
But to me a word came by stealth, and my ear took in a scarcely perceptible whisper thereof.
13 जब मानिसहरू घोर निद्रामा पर्छन्, तब रातको सपनाहरूद्वारा विचारहरू आए ।
In intense thoughts out of visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men:
14 त्‍यो रातमा नै थियो जुन बेला ममाथि डर र त्रास आए, र मेरा सबै हड्‍डी कामे ।
Dread came over me, with trembling, and it caused all my bones to shudder.
15 तब मेरै अनुहारको सामुन्‍नेबाट एउटा आत्मा गयो, र मेरो शरीरको रौं ठाडो भयो ।
Then flitted a spirit past before my face; the hair of my body stood up:
16 त्यो आत्मा खडा भयो, तर त्‍यसको दृष्‍यलाई मैले ठम्याउन सकिनँ । त्यसको स्‍वरूप मेरा आँखाकै सामु थियो । त्यहाँ मौनता थियो, र मैले यसो भनेको एउटा आवाज सुनें,
It stood still, but I could not recognize its form; a figure was before my eyes, a slight whisper, then a [louder] voice I heard, saying,
17 “के मरणशील मानिस परमेश्‍वरभन्दा बढी धर्मी हुन्छ र? के मानिस आफूलाई बनाउनेभन्दा बढी शुद्ध हुन्छ?
Can a mortal be more righteous than God? or can a man be more pure than his Maker?
18 हेर्नुहोस्, परमेश्‍वरले आफ्ना सेवकहरूमाथि भरोसा गर्नुहुन्‍न भने, उहाँले आफ्ना स्वर्गदूतहरूलाई मूर्खताको दोष लगाउनुहुन्छ भने,
Behold, in his servants he putteth no trust, and his angels he chargeth with folly:
19 माटोका घरहरूमा बस्‍नेहरूको बारेमा झन् यो कति साँचो हुन्छ? जसको जग धूलोमा छ, जो कीराभन्दा चाँडै कुल्चिमिल्ची पारिन्छन् ।
How much less in those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed till they come to be eaten by the moth?
20 बिहान र बेलुकीको बिचमा तिनीहरू नष्‍ट हुन्छन् । कसैको जानकारीविना नै तिनीहरू सदाको लागि नष्‍ट हुन्छन् ।
From morning to evening are they broken to pieces: without laying it [to heart] they perish for ever.
21 के तिनीहरूका पालका डोरीहरू तिनीहरूकै बिचमा तानिएका छैनन् र? तिनीहरू मर्छन् । तिनीहरू बुद्धिविना मर्छन् ।
Behold, their excellency which is in them is torn away: they die, and this without wisdom.

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