Jov 35
1 Još govori Elijuj i reèe:
And Elihu went on to say:
2 Misliš li da si pravo rekao: moja je pravda veæa od Božije?
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
3 Jer si rekao: šta æe mi pomoæi, kaka æe mi biti korist, da ne griješim?
For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
4 Ja æu odgovoriti tebi i drugovima tvojim s tobom.
I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
5 Pogledaj nebo, i vidi; pogledaj oblake, kako su viši od tebe.
Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
6 Ako griješiš, šta æeš mu uèiniti? ili ako se umnože bezakonja tvoja, šta æeš mu nauditi?
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
7 Ako si pravedan, šta æeš mu dati? ili šta æe primiti iz ruke tvoje?
If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
8 Èovjeku kakav si može nauditi tvoja zloæa, i sinu èovjeèijemu pomoæi tvoja pravda.
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
9 Vapiju od velikoga nasilja kojima se èini, i vièu na ruku silnijeh;
Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
10 A nijedan ne govori: gdje je Bog, stvoritelj moj, koji daje pjesmu noæu;
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
11 Koji èini te smo razumniji od zvijerja zemaljskoga, i mudriji od ptica nebeskih.
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
12 Tamo vièu s oholosti zlijeh ljudi, ali ne bivaju uslišeni.
There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Jer Bog ne sluša taštine, i svemoguæi ne gleda na nju.
Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
14 Akamoli kad kažeš: ne vidiš to. Pred njim je sud; èekaj ga.
How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
15 A sada èim te gnjev pohodi, nije ništa, niti je gledao na sve što si uèinio;
and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
16 Zato Jov naprazno otvora usta svoja, i bezumno umnožava rijeèi.
So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
