Job 16
1 ಯೋಬನು ಉತ್ತರ ಕೊಟ್ಟು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದೇನಂದರೆ--
2 ಇವುಗಳ ಹಾಗೆ ಅನೇಕವಾದ ವುಗಳನ್ನು ಕೇಳಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ನೀವೆಲ್ಲರೂ ಕಾಟದ ಆದರಣೆ ಕೊಡುವವರೇ.
3 ವ್ಯರ್ಥವಾದ ಮಾತುಗಳಿಗೆ ಅಂತ್ಯ ಉಂಟೋ? ಉತ್ತರ ಕೊಡುವ ಹಾಗೆ ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ಧೈರ್ಯ ಪಡಿಸುವದು ಯಾವದು?
4 ನಿಮ್ಮ ಪ್ರಾಣವು ನನ್ನ ಪ್ರಾಣದ ಸ್ಥಳದಲ್ಲಿ ಇದ್ದರೆ ನಾನು ಸಹ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಹಾಗೆ ಮಾತಾಡಬಹುದು; ಮಾತುಗಳನ್ನು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮೇಲೆ ಕೂಡಿಸಬಹುದು; ನಿಮಗೆ ವಿರೋಧವಾಗಿ ನನ್ನ ತಲೆ ಅಲ್ಲಾಡಿಸಬಹುದು.
5 ನನ್ನ ಬಾಯಿಂದ ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಬಲ ಪಡಿಸುವೆನು. ನನ್ನ ತುಟಿಗಳ ಆದರಣೆ ನಿಮಗೆ ಉಪ ಶಮನ ಮಾಡುವದು.
6 ನಾನು ಮಾತನಾಡಿದರೆ ನನ್ನ ನೋವಿಗೆ ಉಪಶಮನವಾಗುವದಿಲ್ಲ; ನಾನು ಬಿಟ್ಟರೆ ನನಗೆ ಏನು ಉಪಶಮನವಾದೀತು?
7 ಆತನು ಈಗ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ದಣಿಸಿದ್ದಾನೆ; ನನ್ನ ಜೊತೆಯವರನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ನೀನು ಹಾಳುಮಾಡಿದಿ.
8 ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಸುಕ್ಕುಗಳಿಂದ ತುಂಬಿಸಿದ್ದೀ; ಅವು ನನಗೆ ವಿರೋಧವಾಗಿ ಸಾಕ್ಷಿಯಾದವು; ನನ್ನ ಬಡಕಲತನವು ನನ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಎದ್ದು ನನ್ನ ಮುಖದ ಎದುರು ಸಾಕ್ಷಿಕೊಡುತ್ತವೆ.
9 ಆತನು ತನ್ನ ಕೋಪದಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಹರಿದುಬಿಡುತ್ತಾನೆ; ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಹಗೆಮಾಡುತ್ತಾನೆ. ತನ್ನ ಹಲ್ಲುಗಳನ್ನು ನನ್ನ ಮೇಲೆ ಕಡಿಯುತ್ತಾನೆ; ನನ್ನ ವೈರಿಯು ತನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳನ್ನು ನನ್ನ ಮೇಲೆ ಮಸೆಯುತ್ತಾನೆ.
10 ನನ್ನ ಮೇಲೆ ತಮ್ಮ ಬಾಯಿ ತೆರೆಯುತ್ತಾರೆ; ನಿಂದೆಗಾಗಿ ನನ್ನ ಕೆನ್ನೆಗಳನ್ನು ಬಡಿಯುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಏಕವಾಗಿ ನನ್ನ ಮೇಲೆ ಕೂಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಾರೆ.
11 ದೇವರು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಭಕ್ತಿಹೀನರಿಗೆ ಒಪ್ಪಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ. ದುಷ್ಟರ ಕೈಗೆ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಕೊಟ್ಟುಬಿಡುತ್ತಾನೆ.
12 ನಾನು ಶಾಂತವಾಗಿದ್ದಾಗ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಪುಡಿಪುಡಿ ಮಾಡಿದನು. ನನ್ನ ಕುತ್ತಿಗೆ ಹಿಡಿದು ಚೂರುಚೂರಾಗಿ ಮಾಡಿದನು; ನನ್ನನ್ನು ತನಗೆ ಗುರಿಯಾಗಿ ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಿದನು;
13 ಆತನ ಬಿಲ್ಲುಗಾರರು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಸುತ್ತಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ; ನನ್ನ ಗುಂಡಿಗೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕಡಿಯುತ್ತಾನೆ. ಕರುಣಿಸುವದಿಲ್ಲ; ನನ್ನ ಪಿತ್ತವನ್ನು ಭೂಮಿಗೆ ಚೆಲ್ಲುತ್ತಾನೆ.
14 ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಒಡೆದೊಡೆದು ಸಿಥಿಲಪಡಿಸಿ; ಆತನು ಶೂರನಂತೆ ನನ್ನ ಮೇಲೆ ಓಡಿಬರುತ್ತಾನೆ.
15 ನನ್ನ ಮೈಮೇಲೆ ಗೋಣೀ ತಟ್ಟು ಹೊಲಿದು ಧರಿಸಿದೆನು; ಧೂಳಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ ಕೊಂಬನ್ನು ಅಪವಿತ್ರಮಾಡಿದೆನು.
16 ನನ್ನ ಮುಖವು ಅಳುವದರಿಂದ ಉಬ್ಬಿ ಕೆಂಪಾಯಿತು; ನನ್ನ ರೆಪ್ಪೆಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಮರಣದ ನೆರಳು ಅದೇ;
17 ಆದರೂ ನನ್ನ ಕೈಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಬಲಾತ್ಕಾರವಿಲ್ಲ; ನನ್ನ ಪ್ರಾರ್ಥನೆಯು ನಿರ್ಮಲವಾಗಿದೆ.
18 ಭೂಮಿಯೇ, ನನ್ನ ರಕ್ತವನ್ನು ಮುಚ್ಚಬೇಡ; ನನ್ನ ಕೂಗಿಗೆ ಸ್ಥಳ ಇಲ್ಲದೆ ಇರಲಿ.
19 ಈಗ ಇಗೋ, ಆಕಾಶದಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ ಸಾಕ್ಷಿ ಉಂಟು; ನನ್ನ ಸಾಕ್ಷಿಯು ಉನ್ನತದಲ್ಲಿ ಅದೆ.
20 ನನ್ನ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರೇ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಹಾಸ್ಯಮಾಡುತ್ತಾರೆ; ದೇವರಿಗೆ ನನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಣೀರನ್ನು ಸುರಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ.
21 ಒಬ್ಬನು ತನ್ನ ನೆರೆಯವನಿಗೋಸ್ಕರ ವ್ಯಾಜ್ಯವಾಡುವಂತೆ ಮನುಷ್ಯನಿಗೋಸ್ಕರ ದೇವರ ಮುಂದೆ ವ್ಯಾಜ್ಯವಾಡುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ ಎಷ್ಟೋ ಒಳ್ಳೇದು.
22 ಕೆಲವು ವರುಷಗಳು ಮುಗಿದಾಗ ನಾನು ತಿರುಗಿ ಬಾರದ ದಾರಿಹಿಡಿದು ಹೋಗುತ್ತೇನೆ.
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
1 And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.
2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
3 And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
6 And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
8 And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
13 From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
16 And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
20 And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king’s high way, until we be past thy borders.
23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
28 For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.
29 Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.
34 And the Lord said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.