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1 अहिले बोलाउनुहोस् । तपाईंलाई जवाफ दिने कुनै व्‍यक्‍ति छ? पवित्र मानिसहरूमध्‍ये कुनतिर तपाईं फर्कनुहुनेछ?
Do but call: is there one that will answer thee? and to whom of the saints wilt thou turn thyself?
2 किनकि मूर्ख मानिसलाई रिसले मार्छ। सजिलै छलमा पर्नेलाई ईर्ष्याले मार्छ ।
For vexation will prove death to a foolish man, and jealousy will slay the simple.
3 मूर्ख व्यक्तिले जरा गाडेको मैले देखेको छु, तर मैले एक्‍कासि त्यसको घरलाई सराप दिएँ ।
I have myself seen the foolish taking root; but I suddenly held his habitation as accursed.
4 त्यसका छोराछोरी बिल्‍कुलै सुरक्षित छैनन् । तिनीहरू सहरको मूल ढोकामा कुल्चिमिल्ची पारिएका छन् । तिनीहरूलाई छुटकारा दिने कोही छैन ।
His children are far from help, and men crush them in the gate, with no one to deliver them.
5 भोकाएकाहरूले आफ्नो फसल खान्छन् । तिनीहरूले त्‍यसलाई काँढाहरूका बिचबाट पनि बटुल्छन् । तिर्खाएकाहरूले आफ्‍नो धन-सम्पत्तिको तृष्णा गर्छन् ।
[He it is] whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber snatcheth eagerly after their substance.
6 किनकि कठिनाइ माटोबाट आउँदैन । न त भुइँबाट समस्‍या उम्रन्छ ।
For wrong doth not come forth out of the dust, neither doth trouble grow up out of the ground;
7 बरु, मानव-जाति कष्‍टकै लागि जन्मन्छन्, जसरी आगोको झिल्काहरू माथि उड्छन् ।
But man is born unto trouble, as young birds take up their flight.
8 तर मेरो बारेमा, स्‍वयम् परमेश्‍वरकहाँ नै म फर्कन्छु । उहाँमा नै म आफ्‍नो गुनासो समर्पित गर्छु—
I, however, would have besought God, and unto God would I have committed my cause;
9 महान् अनि अगम्‍य कुराहरू गर्नुहुने, अनगिन्ती उदेकका कामहरू गर्नुहुने उहाँ नै हुनुहुन्छ ।
Who doth great things which are unsearchable, marvelous things till they are without number;
10 उहाँले पृथ्वीमा वृष्‍टि दिनुहुन्छ, र खेतबारीमा पानी पठाउनुहुन्छ ।
Who giveth rain upon the surface of the earth, and sendeth out waters over the face of the fields;
11 नम्रहरूलाई उच्‍च स्‍थानमा राख्‍नलाई अनि शोक गर्नेहरूलाई सुरक्षित उचाल्‍नलाई उहाँले यसो गर्नुहुन्छ ।
To set up the lowly on high, that those who mourn may rise high to happiness;
12 धूर्त मानिसहरूका हातले सफलता नपाओस् भनेर, उहाँले तिनीहरूका योजनाहरूलाई विफल तुल्याउनुहुन्छ ।
[But] who frustrateth the plans of the crafty, so that their hands cannot execute their well-devised counsel;
13 उहाँले बुद्धिमान् मानिसहरूलाई तिनीहरूका आफ्नै धूर्त कामहरूमा पासोमा पार्नुहुन्छ । टेडा मानिसहरूका योजनाहरू अन्त्यको लागि हतारिन्छन् ।
Who catcheth the wise in their own craftiness; and the advise of the perverse is hastened on headlong;
14 तिनीहरूले दिउँसै अन्धकार भेट्टाउँछन्, अनि मध्यदिनमा पनि रातमा झैं छामेर हिंड्छन् ।
By day they meet with darkness, and as though it were night they grope about in the noon of day;
15 तर उहाँले गरिबहरूलाई तिनीहरूको मुखमा भएको तरवारदेखि र खाँचोमा परेकालाई शक्तिशाली मानिसहरूको हातबाट बचाउनुहुन्छ ।
But who saveth from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty, the needy one:
16 त्यसैले गरिब मानिसको आशा छ, र अन्यायले त्यसको आफ्नै मुख बन्द गर्छ ।
And so cometh to the indigent hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
17 हेर, त्यो मानिस धन्यको हो, जसलाई परमेश्‍वरले सुधार्नुहुन्छ । त्यसकारण सर्वशक्तिमान्‌को ताडनालाई इन्कार नगर ।
Behold, happy is the man whom God admonisheth: despise then not the correction of the Almighty.
18 किनकि उहाँले चोट पुर्‍याउनुहुन्छ, र पट्टी बाँध्‍नुहुन्छ । उहाँले चोट पुर्‍याउनुहुन्छ र आफ्‍नै हातले निको पार्नुहुन्‍छ ।
For he it is that woundeth, and bindeth up: he smiteth, and his hands do heal.
19 उहाँले तपाईंलाई छवटा कष्‍टबाट छुटकारा दिनुहुनेछ । वास्तवमा सातौं कष्‍टमा पनि कुनै दुष्‍ट्याइँले तपाईंलाई छुँदैन ।
In six distresses will he deliver thee; and in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
20 अनिकालको समयमा मृत्युबाट मोल तिरेर, र युद्धमा तरवारको हातबाट उहाँले तपाईंलाई छुटाउनुहुनेछ ।
In famine he redeemeth thee from death; and in war from the power of the sword.
21 झूट बोल्‍ने जिब्रोको कोर्राबाट तपाईंलाई लुकाइनेछ, र जब विनाश आउँछ, तब तपाईं त्‍यसबाट डराउनुहुनेछैन ।
Against the scourge of the tongue shall thou he hidden; and thou needest not be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
22 विनाश र अनिकाल देखेर तपाईं हास्‍नुहुनेछ, अनि पृथ्‍वीका जङ्गली जनावरहरूदेखि तपाईं डराउनुहुनेछैनौ ।
At destruction and famine canst thou laugh; and thou needest not have any fear of the beasts of the earth.
23 किनकि तपाईंको खेतमा भएका ढुङ्गाहरूसित तपाईंले करार बाँध्‍नुहुनेछ, र वनका पशुहरू तपाईंसित मिलापमा रहनेछन् ।
For with the stones of the field shalt thou have thy covenant; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24 तपाईंको पाल सुरक्षित छ भनी तपाईंले जान्‍नुहुनेछ । तपाईं आफ्नो भेडी-गोठ हेर्न जानुहुनेछ र एउटा पनि नहराएको तपाईंले पाउनुहुनेछैन ।
And thou shalt know that there is peace in thy tent; and thou wilt look over thy habitation, and shalt miss nothing.
25 तपाईंले यो जान्‍नुहुनेछ, तपाईंको सन्तान महान् हुनेछ, तपाईंका छोराछोरी जमिनको घाँसझैं हुनेछन् ।
And thou shalt know that thy seed is numerous, and thy offspring as the herbage of the earth.
26 तपाईं आफ्‍नो चिहानमा पूरा बढो भएर आउनुहुनेछ । जसरी आफ्नो समयमा अन्‍नका मुट्ठाहरूको चाङ हुनेछ ।
Thon wilt go in a ripe age unto the grave, as a shock of corn is carried home in its season.
27 हेर्नुहोस्, हामीले यस विषयलाई जाँच गरेका छौं । यो यस्‍तो छ । यसलाई सुन्‍नुहोस् र आफ्‍नै निम्‍ति यसलाई चिन्‍नुहोस् ।”
Behold this, we have searched it out, so it is: hear it, and do thou note it well for thyself.

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