யோபு 38
Then Yahweh spoke to Job from inside a great windstorm. He said to him,
“(Who are you to question what I plan to do?/You have no right/authority to question what I plan to do.) [RHQ] You are speaking ignorantly!
I want to ask you [some] questions, so, just like men prepare themselves for a difficult task [MET], prepare to answer my questions.
(“Where were you/Were you there with me) [long ago] when I (laid the foundations of/created) the earth? Since you know so much, tell me [where you were at that time].
Do you know how I decided how large the earth would be? Do you know who stretched a measuring tape around the earth? Surely [since you think that you know so much, ] you should know that!
What supports the pillars on which the earth rests? When the stars [that shine early] in the morning sang together, and someone put in place the stone that causes the earth to stay in its place, and all the angels shouted joyfully [when they saw that happening], who laid that cornerstone? [Did you?]
“When the seas poured forth from inside the earth, who prevented the water from flooding over the land?
It was I, [not you, ] who caused clouds to come over the seas and caused it to become very dark [under those clouds].
I set limits for the seas, and I put barriers [so that the water would not come over the land].
11 ௧௧ இதுவரை வா, மீறி வராதே; உன் அலைகளின் பெருமை இங்கே அடங்குவதாக என்று நான் சொல்லுகிறபோதும் நீ எங்கேயிருந்தாய்?
[I pointed to the shore] and said to the water, ‘I permit you to come up to here, but I do not permit you to come any farther. Your powerful waves must stop there!’
“Job, have you [ever] commanded the morning [to begin]? Have you [ever] told the dawn to start a new day?
13 ௧௩ உன் வாழ்நாளிலே எப்போதாவது நீ அதிகாலைக்குக் கட்டளை கொடுத்து, சூரிய உதயத்திற்கு அதின் இடத்தைக் காண்பித்ததுண்டோ?
Have you [ever] told the dawn to spread out over the whole earth, with the result that wicked people run away from the light?
14 ௧௪ பூமி முத்திரையிடப்பட்ட களிமண்போல வேறே தோற்றம்கொள்ளும்; அனைத்தும் ஆடை அணிந்திருக்கிறதுபோலக் காணப்படும்.
When it becomes light after the dawn, the hills and the valleys become clear like the folds in a cloth.
When it becomes daylight, the wicked do not have the darkness [that they like]; [in the daylight] they no longer are able to raise up their arms, ready to hurt people.
“[Job, ] have you traveled to the springs [in the bottom of the ocean] from which the water in the seas comes? Have you investigated/explored the very bottom of the oceans?
Has someone shown you the gates to the place where dead people are, the gates to the place where it is very dark?
Do you know how big the earth is? Tell me, if you know all these things!
“Where is the road to the place where light comes from? And [can you tell me] where darkness lives?
Can take me to its home? Do you know where the road is that goes there?
I am sure that you know these things, because you [talk as though you] were born before the time when all things were created; you [must] be very old!
“Have you entered the place where I store the snow and the place where I keep the hail?
23 ௨௩ ஆபத்துவரும் காலத்திலும், கலகமும் போரும் வரும் காலத்திலும், பயன்படுத்த நான் அவைகளை வைத்துவைத்திருக்கிறேன்.
I store the snow and the hail [in order that I can use them to help my people] when [they have] troubles, in times when [they are fighting] wars [DOU].
And where is the road to the place from which I cause the lightning to flash? Where is the place from where the east wind begins to blow over all the earth?
Who created the channels in which the rain comes down from the sky? Who makes the roads for the thunder/lightning?
26 ௨௬ பூமியெங்கும் மனிதர் குடியில்லாத இடத்திலும், மனிதநடமாட்டமில்லாத வனாந்திரத்திலும் மழையைப் பொழியச்செய்து,
Who causes rain to fall in the desert, in places where no one lives?
27 ௨௭ வெள்ளத்திற்கு நீர்க்கால்களையும், இடிமுழக்கங்களுடன் வரும் மின்னலுக்கு வழிகளையும் பகுத்தவர் யார்?
Who sends the rain that gives moisture/water to areas where nothing has grown, with the result that grass begins to grow again?
Does the rain have a father? Does the dew [also] have a father?
29 ௨௯ உறைந்த தண்ணீர் யாருடைய வயிற்றிலிருந்து புறப்படுகிறது? ஆகாயத்தின் உறைந்த பனியைப் பெற்றவர் யார்?
And from whose womb does ice come [in the (winter/cold season)]? Who gives birth to the frost that comes down from the sky?
[In the winter, ] the water [freezes and] becomes hard, like a rock, and the surface of lakes becomes frozen.
“[Job], can you fasten the chains that hold the stars together in clusters/groups in the sky?
32 ௩௨ நட்சத்திரங்களை அதினதின் காலத்திலே வரவைப்பாயோ? துருவமண்டலத்தின் நட்சத்திரத்தையும் அதைச் சேர்ந்த நட்சத்திரங்களையும் வழிநடத்துவாயோ?
Can you tell the stars when they should shine? Can you guide [the stars in the groups in the northern sky whose names are] the Big Bear and the Little Bear?
Do you know the laws that the stars must obey? Can you cause those same laws to rule [everything here] on the earth?
“Can you shout to the clouds and cause rain to pour down on you?
35 ௩௫ நீ மின்னல்களை வரவழைத்து, அவைகள் புறப்பட்டுவந்து: இதோ, இங்கேயிருக்கிறோம் என்று உனக்குச் சொல்ல வைப்பாயோ?
Can you cause flashes of lightning to come down and strike where you want it to strike? Do those flashes say to you, ‘Where do you want us to strike next?’
Who enables the clouds to know when they should cause rain to fall?
And who is skilled/wise enough to be able to count the clouds? Who can tilt the jugs of water in the sky [to cause the rain to fall],
38 ௩௮ தூசியானது பரவலாகவும், மண்கட்டிகள் ஒன்றோடொன்று ஒட்டிக்கொள்ளவும், வானத்தின் மேகங்களிலுள்ள தண்ணீரைப் பொழியச்செய்கிறவர் யார்?
with the result that the dry ground becomes hard as the dry (clods/lumps of soil) [become wet and] stick together?
“When a lioness and her cubs crouch in their dens or hide in a thicket, [waiting for some animal to pass by that they can kill, ] can you find animals for a lioness to kill so that [she and] her cubs can [eat the meat and] not be hungry any more?
40 ௪0 சிங்கக்குட்டிகள் தாங்கள் தங்கும் இடங்களிலே கிடந்து குகையில் பதுங்கியிருக்கிறபோது, அவைகளின் ஆசையைத் திருப்தியாக்குவாயோ?
41 ௪௧ காக்கைக்குஞ்சுகள் தேவனை நோக்கிக் கூப்பிட்டு, ஆகாரமில்லாமல் பறந்து அலைகிறபோது, அவைகளுக்கு இரையைச் சேகரித்துக் கொடுக்கிறவர் யார்?
Who provides dead animals for crows, when the baby crows are calling out to me [for food], [when they are so weak] because of their lack of food [that] they (stagger around/can hardly stand up) [in their nests]?”
