Job 40
1 फिर यहोवा ने अय्यूब से यह भी कहा:
2 क्या जो बकवास करता है वह सर्वशक्तिमान से झगड़ा करे? जो ईश्वर से विवाद करता है वह इसका उत्तर दे।
3 तब अय्यूब ने यहोवा को उत्तर दिया:
4 देख, मैं तो तुच्छ हूँ, मैं तुझे क्या उत्तर दूं? मैं अपनी अंगुली दांत तले दबाता हूँ।
5 एक बार तो मैं कह चुका, परन्तु और कुछ न कहूंगा: हां दो बार भी मैं कह चुका, परन्तु अब कुछ और आगे न बढ़ूंगा।
6 तब यहोवा ने अय्यूब को आँधी में से यह उत्तर दिया:
7 पुरुष की नाईं अपनी कमर बान्ध ले, मैं तुझ से प्रश्न करता हूँ, और तू मुझे बता।
8 क्या तू मेरा न्याय भी व्यर्थ ठहराएगा? क्या तू आप निर्दोष ठहरने की मनसा से मुझ को दोषी ठहराएगा?
9 क्या तेरा बाहुबल ईश्वर के तुल्य है? क्या तू उसके समान शब्द से गरज सकता है?
10 अब अपने को महिमा और प्रताप से संवार और ऐश्वर्य्य और तेज के वस्त्र पहिन ले।
11 अपने अति क्रोध की बाढ़ को बहा दे, और एक एक घमण्डी को देखते ही उसे नीचा कर।
12 हर एक घमण्डी को देख कर झुका दे, और दुष्ट लोगों को जहां खड़े हों वहां से गिरा दे।
13 उन को एक संग मिट्टी में मिला दे, और उस गुप्त स्थान में उनके मुंह बान्ध दे।
14 तब मैं भी तेरे विषय में मान लूंगा, कि तेरा ही दहिना हाथ तेरा उद्धार कर सकता है।
15 उस जलगज को देख, जिस को मैं ने तेरे साथ बनाया है, वह बैल की नाईं घास खाता है।
16 देख उसकी कटि में बल है, और उसके पेट के पट्ठों में उसकी सामर्थ्य रहती है।
17 वह अपनी पूंछ को देवदार की नाईं हिलाता है; उसकी जांघों की नसें एक दूसरे से मिली हुई हैं।
18 उसकी हड्डियां मानो पीतल की नलियां हैं, उसकी पसुलियां मानो लोहे के बेंड़े हैं।
19 वह ईश्वर का मुख्य कार्य है; जो उसका सिरजनहार हो उसके निकट तलवार ले कर आए!
20 निश्चय पहाड़ों पर उसका चारा मिलता है, जहां और सब वनपशु कालोल करते हैं।
21 वह छतनार वृक्षों के तले नरकटों की आड़ में और कीच पर लेटा करता है
22 छतनार वृक्ष उस पर छाया करते हैं, वह नाले के बेंत के वृक्षों से घिरा रहता है।
23 चाहे नदी की बाढ़ भी हो तौभी वह न घबराएगा, चाहे यरदन भी बढ़ कर उसके मुंह तक आए परन्तु वह निर्भय रहेगा।
24 जब वह चौकस हो तब क्या कोई उसको पकड़ सकेगा, वा फन्दे लगा कर उसको नाथ सकेगा?
1 Moreover the Lord answered Job, and said,
2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
3 Then Job answered the Lord, and said,
4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
6 Then answered the Lord unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
10 Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
13 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
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.