Job 11
1 तब नामाती सोपर ने कहा:
2 बहुत सी बातें जो कही गई हैं, क्या उनका उत्तर देना न चाहिये? क्या बकवादी मनुष्य धमीं ठहराया जाए?
3 क्या तेरे बड़े बोल के कारण लोग चुप रहें? और जब तू ठट्ठा करता है, तो क्या कोई तुझे लज्जित न करे?
4 तू तो यह कहता है कि मेरा सिद्धान्त शुद्ध है और मैं ईश्वर की दृष्टि में पवित्र हूँ।
5 परन्तु भला हो, कि ईश्वर स्वयं बातें करें, और तेरे विरुद्ध मुंह खोले,
6 और तुझ पर बुद्धि की गुप्त बातें प्रगट करे, कि उनका मर्म तेरी बुद्धि से बढ़कर है। इसलिये जान ले, कि ईश्वर तेरे अधर्म में से बहुत कुछ भूल जाता है।
7 क्या तू ईश्वर का गूढ़ भेद पा सकता है? और क्या तू सर्वशक्तिमान का मर्म पूरी रीति से जांच सकता है?
8 वह आकाश सा ऊंचा है; तू क्या कर सकता है? वह अधोलोक से गहिरा है, तू कहां समझ सकता है?
9 उसकी माप पृथ्वी से भी लम्बी है और समुद्र से चौड़ी है।
10 जब ईश्वर बीच से गुजरकर बन्द कर दे और अदालत (कचहरी) में बुलाए, तो कौन उसको रोक सकता है।
11 क्योंकि वह पाखण्डी मनुष्यों का भेद जानता है, और अनर्थ काम को बिना सोच विचार किए भी जान लेता है।
12 परन्तु मनुष्य छूछा और निर्बुद्धि होता है; क्योंकि मनुष्य जन्म ही से जंगली गदहे के बच्चे के समान होता है।
13 यदि तू अपना मन शुद्ध करे, और ईश्वर की ओर अपने हाथ फैलाए,
14 और जो कोई अनर्थ काम तुझ से होता हो उसे दूर करे, और अपने डेरों में कोई कुटिलता न रहने दे,
15 तब तो तू निश्चय अपना मुंह निष्कलंक दिखा सकेगा; और तू स्थिर हो कर कभी न डरेगा।
16 तब तू अपना दु:ख भूल जाएगा, तू उसे उस पानी के समान स्मरण करेगा जो बह गया हो।
17 और तेरा जीवन दोपहर से भी अधिक प्रकाशमान होगा; और चाहे अन्धेरा भी हो तौभी वह भोर सा हो जाएगा।
18 और तुझे आशा होगी, इस कारण तू निर्भय रहेगा; और अपने चारों ओर देख देखकर तू निर्भय विश्राम कर सकेगा।
19 और जब तू लेटेगा, तब कोई तुझे डराएगा नहीं; और बहुतेरे तुझे प्रसन्न करने का यत्न करेंगे।
20 परन्तु दुष्ट लोगों की आंखें रह जाएंगी, और उन्हें कोई शरुण स्थान न मिलेगा और उनकी आशा यही होगी कि प्राण निकल जाए।
1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
4 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
6 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?
12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
16 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
17 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.