Job 16
1 Potem je Job odgovoril in rekel:
Then Job answered,
2 »Slišal sem mnoge takšne stvari. Vi vsi ste bedni tolažniki.
“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
3 Mar bodo besede ničnosti imele konec? Ali kaj te opogumlja, da odgovarjaš?
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
4 Tudi jaz bi lahko govoril, kakor delate vi. Če bi bila vaša duša namesto moje duše, bi lahko kopičil besede zoper vas in z glavo zmajeval nad vami.
I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,
5 Toda jaz bi vas želel okrepiti s svojimi usti in premikanje mojih ustnic bi omililo vašo žalost.
but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
6 Čeprav govorim, moja žalost ni zmanjšana in čeprav potrpim, koliko sem olajšan?
“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
7 Toda sedaj me je naredil izmučenega. Vso mojo skupino si naredil zapuščeno.
But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.
8 Napolnil si me z gubami, ki so priča zoper mene. Moja pustost vstaja v meni in pričuje v moj obraz.
You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
9 Trga me v svojem besu ta, ki me sovraži. Nad menoj škripa s svojimi zobmi. Moj sovražnik svoje oči ostri nad menoj.
He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
10 S svojimi usti so zevali vame. Grajalno so me udarili na lice. Skupaj so se zbrali zoper mene.
They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
11 Bog me je izročil brezbožnim in me predal v roke zlobnih.
God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 Bil sem sproščen, toda razlomil me je. Prijel me je tudi za moj vrat in me stresel na koščke in me postavil za svoje znamenje.
I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.
13 Njegovi lokostrelci so me obdali naokoli, on mojo notranjost cepi narazen in ne prizanaša; moj žolč izliva na tla.
His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.
14 Lomi me z vrzeljo nad vrzeljo, nadme teče kakor velikan.
He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.
15 Sešil sem vrečevino na svoji koži in svoj rog omadeževal v prahu.
I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.
16 Moj obraz je zapacan od joka in na mojih vekah je smrtna senca,
My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,
17 ne zaradi kakršnekoli nepravičnosti na mojih rokah. Tudi moja molitev je čista.
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18 Oh zemlja, ne pokrij moje krvi in naj moj jok nima prostora.
“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.
19 Tudi sedaj, glej, moja priča je v nebesih in moje pričevanje je na višini.
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
20 Moji prijatelji me zasmehujejo, toda moje oko izliva solze k Bogu.
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
21 Oh, da bi se nekdo lahko potegoval za človeka pri Bogu, kakor se človek poteguje za svojega bližnjega!
that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
22 Ko pride nekaj let, potem bom šel pot, od koder se ne bom vrnil.
For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.
