अय्यूब 9
1 तब अय्यूब ने कहा,
2 मैं निश्चय जानता हूं, कि बात ऐसी ही है; परन्तु मनुष्य ईश्वर की दृष्टि में क्योंकर धमीं ठहर सकता है?
3 चाहे वह उस से मुक़द्दमा लड़ना भी चाहे तौभी मनुष्य हजार बातों में से एक का भी उत्तर न दे सकेगा।
4 वह बुद्धिमान और अति सामथीं है: उसके विरोध में हठ कर के कौन कभी प्रबल हुआ है?
5 वह तो पर्वतों को अचानक हटा देता है और उन्हें पता भी नहीं लगता, वह क्रोध में आकर उन्हें उलट पुलट कर देता है।
6 वह पृथ्वी को हिला कर उसके स्थान से अलग करता है, और उसके खम्भे कांपने लगते हैं।
7 उसकी आज्ञा बिना सूर्य उदय होता ही नहीं; और वह तारों पर मुहर लगाता है;
8 वह आकाशमण्डल को अकेला ही फैलाता है, और समुद्र की ऊंची ऊंची लहरों पर चलता है;
9 वह सप्तर्षि, मृगशिरा और कचपचिया और दक्खिन के नक्षत्रों का बनाने वाला है।
10 वह तो ऐसे बड़े कर्म करता है, जिनकी थाह नहीं लगती; और इतने आश्चर्यकर्म करता है, जो गिने नहीं जा सकते।
11 देखो, वह मेरे साम्हने से हो कर तो चलता है परन्तु मुझ को नहीं दिखाई पड़ता; और आगे को बढ़ जाता है, परन्तु मुझे सूझ ही नहीं पड़ता है।
12 देखो, जब वह छीनने लगे, तब उसको कौन रोकेगा? कौन उस से कह सकता है कि तू यह क्या करता है?
13 ईश्वर अपना क्रोध ठंडा नहीं करता। अभिमानी के सहायकों को उसके पांव तले झुकना पड़ता है।
14 फिर मैं क्या हूं, जो उसे उत्तर दूं, और बातें छांट छांटकर उस से विवाद करूं?
15 चाहे मैं निर्दोष भी होता परन्तु उसको उत्तर न दे सकता; मैं अपने मुद्दई से गिड़गिड़ाकर बिनती करता।
16 चाहे मेरे पुकारने से वह उत्तर भी देता, तौभी मैं इस बात की प्रतीति न करता, कि वह मेरी बात सुनता है।
17 वह तो आंधी चला कर मुझे तोड़ डालता है, और बिना कारण मेरे चोट पर चोट लगाता है।
18 वह मुझे सांस भी लेने नहीं देता है, और मुझे कड़वाहट से भरता है।
19 जो सामर्थ्य की चर्चा हो, तो देखो, वह बलवान है: और यदि न्याय की चर्चा हो, तो वह कहेगा मुझ से कौन मुक़द्दमा लड़ेगा?
20 चाहे मैं निर्दोष ही क्यों न हूँ, परन्तु अपने ही मुंह से दोषी ठहरूंगा; खरा होने पर भी वह मुझे कुटिल ठहराएगा।
21 मैं खरा तो हूँ, परन्तु अपना भेद नहीं जानता; अपने जीवन से मुझे घृण आती है।
22 बात तो एक ही है, इस से मैं यह कहता हूँ कि ईश्वर खरे और दुष्ट दोनों को नाश करता है।
23 जब लोग विपत्ति से अचानक मरने लगते हैं तब वह निर्दोष लोगों के जांचे जाने पर हंसता है।
24 देश दुष्टों के हाथ में दिया गया है। वह उसके न्यायियों की आंखों को मून्द देता है; इसका करने वाला वही न हो तो कौन है?
25 मेरे दिन हरकारे से भी अधिक वेग से चले जाते हैं; वे भागे जाते हैं और उन को कल्याण कुछ भी दिखाई नहीं देता।
26 वे वेग चाल से नावों की नाईं चले जाते हैं, वा अहेर पर झपटते हुए उक़ाब की नाईं।
27 जो मैं कहूं, कि विलाप करना फूल जाऊंगा, और उदासी छोड़कर अपना मन प्रफुल्लित कर दूंगा,
28 तब मैं अपने सब दुखों से डरता हूँ। मैं तो जानता हूँ, कि तू मुझे निर्दोष न ठहराएगा।
29 मैं तो दोषी ठहरूंगा; फिर व्यर्थ क्यों परिश्रम करूं?
30 चाहे मैं हिम के जल में स्नान करूं, और अपने हाथ खार से निर्मल करूं,
31 तौभी तू मुझे गड़हे में डाल ही देगा, और मेरे वस्त्र भी मुझ से घिनाएंगे।
32 क्योंकि वह मेरे तुल्य मनुष्य नहीं है कि मैं उस से वादविवाद कर सकूं, और हम दोनों एक दूसरे से मुक़द्दमा लड़ सकें।
33 हम दोनों के बीच कोई बिचवई नहीं है, जो हम दोंनों पर अपना हाथ रखे। वह अपना सोंटा मुझ पर से दूर करे
34 और उसकी भय देनेवाली बात मुझे न घबराए।
35 तब मैं उस से निडर हो कर कुछ कह सकूंगा, क्योंकि मैं अपनी दृष्टि में ऐसा नहीं हूँ।
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?
13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.
4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.
7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard’s house, both me and the chief baker:
11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
12 And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.
13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.
16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
27 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?
39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:
40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
45 And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.
51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.
52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.
56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.