ਅੱਯੂਬ 9
Then Job answered and said,
I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?
For if he would enter into judgement with him, [God] would not listen to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.
For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?
5 ੫ ਉਹ ਜੋ ਅਚਾਨਕ ਪਹਾੜਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਹਟਾ ਦਿੰਦਾ ਹੈ ਅਤੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਪਤਾ ਵੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਲੱਗਦਾ, ਉਹ ਆਪਣੇ ਕ੍ਰੋਧ ਵਿੱਚ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਉਲਟ ਦਿੰਦਾ ਹੈ,
Who wears out the mountains, and [men] know it not: who overturns them in anger.
Who shakes the [earth] under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.
Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars.
Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground.
Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.
Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.
11 ੧੧ ਵੇਖੋ, ਉਹ ਮੇਰੇ ਕੋਲੋਂ ਦੀ ਲੰਘ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ ਪਰ ਮੈਂ ਉਹ ਨੂੰ ਵੇਖ ਨਹੀਂ ਸਕਦਾ, ਉਹ ਅੱਗੇ ਵੱਧ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ, ਪਰ ਮੈਂ ਉਹ ਨੂੰ ਪਛਾਣਦਾ ਨਹੀਂ।
If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: if he should pass by me, neither thus have I known [it].
If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What have you done?
For [if] he has turned away [his] anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.
Oh then that he would listen to me, or judge my cause.
15 ੧੫ ਭਾਵੇਂ ਮੈਂ ਨਿਰਦੋਸ਼ ਵੀ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਤਾਂ ਵੀ ਉਸ ਨੂੰ ਜਵਾਬ ਨਹੀਂ ਦੇ ਸਕਦਾ, ਮੈਂ ਸਿਰਫ਼ ਆਪਣੇ ਨਿਆਈਂ ਦੇ ਅੱਗੇ ਦੁਹਾਈ ਦੇ ਸਕਦਾ ਹਾਂ।
For though I be righteous, he will not listen to me: I will entreat his judgement.
16 ੧੬ ਜੇ ਮੈਂ ਪੁਕਾਰਦਾ ਅਤੇ ਉਹ ਉੱਤਰ ਵੀ ਦਿੰਦਾ, ਤਾਂ ਵੀ ਮੈਂ ਨਿਹਚਾ ਨਾ ਕਰਦਾ ਕਿ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਮੇਰੀ ਅਵਾਜ਼ ਉੱਤੇ ਕੰਨ ਲਾਇਆ ਹੈ,
And if I should call and he should not listen, I can’t believe that he has listened to my voice.
Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause.
For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.
For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgement?
20 ੨੦ ਜੇ ਮੈਂ ਨਿਰਦੋਸ਼ ਵੀ ਹੋਵਾਂ ਤਾਂ ਵੀ ਮੇਰਾ ਮੂੰਹ ਮੈਨੂੰ ਦੋਸ਼ੀ ਠਹਿਰਾਵੇਗਾ, ਜੇ ਮੈਂ ਖਰਾ ਹੋਵਾਂ ਤਾਂ ਵੀ ਉਹ ਮੈਨੂੰ ਟੇਢਾ ਸਾਬਤ ਕਰੇਗਾ।
For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.
For even if I have sinned, I know it not [in] my soul: but my life is taken away.
Therefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.
For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.
24 ੨੪ ਜਦ ਦੇਸ ਦੁਸ਼ਟਾਂ ਦੇ ਹੱਥ ਵਿੱਚ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ ਤਾਂ ਉਹ ਨਿਆਂਈਆਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਅੱਖਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਢੱਕ ਦਿੰਦਾ ਹੈ, ਜੇ ਇਹ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲਾ ਉਹ ਨਹੀਂ, ਤਾਂ ਹੋਰ ਕੌਣ ਹੈ?
For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous [man]: he covers the faces of the judges [of the earth]: but if it be not he, who is it?
But my life is swifter than a post: [my days] have fled away, and they knew it not.
Or again, is there a trace of [their] path [left] by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks [its] prey?
27 ੨੭ ਜੇ ਮੈਂ ਆਖਾਂ ਕਿ ਮੈਂ ਆਪਣੀ ਸ਼ਿਕਾਇਤ ਭੁੱਲ ਜਾਂਵਾਂਗਾ, ਮੈਂ ਆਪਣੀ ਉਦਾਸੀ ਛੱਡ ਦਿਆਂਗਾ ਅਤੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਆਪ ਨੂੰ ਖੁਸ਼ ਵਿਖਾਵਾਂਗਾ।
And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;
I quake in all my limbs, for I know that you will not leave me alone [as] innocent.
But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?
For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,
you had thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.
For you are not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgement.
Would that [he] our mediator were [present], and a reprover, and one who should hear [the cause] between both.
Let him remove [his] rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious [of guilt].
