अय्यूब 16
1 तब अय्यूबले जवाफ दिए,
2 मैले पहिलाबाट “यी कुराहरू सुनेको हुँ। तिमीहरू तीनजना मानिसहरूले मलाई दुःख दिइरहेकाछौ, सान्तवना होइन।
3 तिमीहरूका लामा भाषणहरू कहिले सिद्धिने होइन। किन तिमीहरूको तर्कहरू तन्काई रहन्छौ?
4 तिमीहरूले भनेकै कुराहरू म पनि भन्न सक्थें यदि तिमीहरूसँग मेरो जस्तै संकटहरू भए। म तिमीहरूलाई ज्ञानी कुराहरू सुनाउन सक्थे अनि मेरो टाउको तिमीहरूतिर हल्लाउथें।
5 तर म तिमीलाई उत्साह दिउँला अनि मैले भनेका कुराहरूसँग आशा जगाई दिउँला।
6 मैले जे भने पनि मेरो पीडा केहीबाट हरण हुने छैन, तर चुपचाप बसिरहनु पनि लाभ छैन।
7 हे परमेश्वर, साँचो रूपमा, तपाईंले मेरो शक्ति लैजानु भयो। तपाईंले मेरो सबै परिवार तहसनहस पारिदिनु भयो।
8 तपाईंले मलाई दुब्लो-पातलो बनाइदिनु भयो, अनि मानिसहरूलाई त्यसले मलाई दोष्याउने कारण उब्जाउँछ।
9 परमेश्वर क्रोधित हुनुभयो अनि मेरो शरीरलाई एउटा सिंहले झैं आक्रमण गर्नु भयो। मेरो शरीर टुक्रा-टुक्रा पारी च्यात्नु भयो। अनि मेरो शत्रुहरूले मलाई तिनीहरूको घृणित नजरले हेरे।
10 मानिसहरूले मेरो वरिपरि थुप्रेर, तिनीहरूले मलाई हाँसोको पात्र बनाए अनि थप्पड लगाए।
11 परमेश्वरले मलाई दुष्ट मानिसहरूकहाँ दिनु भयो। मलाई दुःख दिओस् भनेर उहाँले कुकर्मीहरूलाई छोडी दिनुभयो।
12 जबसम्म परमेश्वरले मलाई घाँटीमा समात्नु भएन अनि मलाई टुक्रा-टुक्रा पार्नु भएन तबसम्म प्रत्येक कुरो राम्रै भइरहेको थियो। तब उहाँले मलाई पहिलेकै अवस्थामा ल्याउनु भयो र मलाई उहाँको तारोको रूप प्रयोग गर्नुभयो।
13 परमेश्वरका धनुर्धारीहरू मेरो वरिपरि छन्। उहाँले मेरो मिर्गौलामा काँढले हान्नु भयो। उहाँले ममाथि दयाभाव देखाउनु भएन उहाँले मेरो पित्त भुईंमा फुटाउनु भयो।
14 घरिघरि परमेश्वरले मलाई आक्रमण गर्नुहुन्छ। उहाँ एक सिपाही युद्धभूमिमा दौडे जस्तो दगुर्नुहुन्छ।
15 म अत्यन्त उदास छु, यसैले म त्यस्ता उदासी पोषाकहरू लगाउँछु। म यहाँ धुलोमुलो र खरानीको थुप्रोमा बस्छु, अनि म पराजित भएको ठान्छु।
16 रूँदा-रूँदा मेरो अनुहार रातो भइसक्यो। मेरो आँखा वरिपरि कालो गोलो रेखाहरू छन्।
17 मैले कसैलाई नोक्सान गरेको छैन। तर त्यस्ता अप्रिय घटनाहरू मकहाँ आई लाग्यो। मेरा प्रार्थनाहरू उचित र चोखा छन्।
18 पृथ्वी, गल्ती कुराहरू नलुकाऊ जुन ममाथि आइपर्यो। मेरो न्यायको पुकारलाई नरोक।
19 अहिले पनि त्यहाँ स्वर्गमा कोही छ जो मसँग बोल्नु हुन्छ। त्यहाँ माथि कोही त छ जसले मेरो लागि साक्षी दिनेछ।
20 मेरो साथीहरूले मलाई हप्काउँछ। मेरा आँखहरूबाट परमेश्वरका निम्ति आँशु बग्छ।
21 तर परमेश्वर अघि उसले मेरो विषयमा साथीको लागि न्याय गरिदिने मानिसले झैं बोलिदिन्छ।
22 केही वर्षमा म नफर्किने ठाउँमा जानेछु।
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 At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.
4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts:
6 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.
7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.