యోబు గ్రంథము 12
1 అప్పుడు యోబు ఈలాగు ప్రత్యుత్తర...మిచ్చెను
2 నిజముగా లోకములో మీరే జనులుమీతోనే జ్ఞానము గతించి పోవును.
3 అయినను మీకున్నట్టు నాకును వివేచనాశక్తి కలిగియున్నదినేను మీకంటె తక్కువజ్ఞానము కలవాడను కానుమీరు చెప్పినవాటిని ఎరుగనివాడెవడు?దేవునికి మొఱ్ఱపెట్టి ప్రత్యుత్తరములు పొందిన వాడనైన నేను
4 నా స్నేహితునికి అపహాస్యాస్పదముగా నుండవలసి వచ్చెను.నీతియు యథార్థతయు గలవాడు అపహాస్యాస్పదముగా నుండవలసి వచ్చెను.
5 దుర్దశ నొందినవానిని తిరస్కరించుట క్షేమముగలవారు యుక్తమనుకొందురు.కాలుజారువారికొరకు తిరస్కారము కనిపెట్టుచున్నది.
6 దోపిడిగాండ్ర కాపురములు వర్థిల్లునుదేవునికి కోపము పుట్టించువారు నిర్భయముగానుందురువారు తమ బాహుబలమే తమకు దేవుడనుకొందురు.
7 అయినను మృగములను విచారించుము అవి నీకు బోధించునుఆకాశపక్షులను విచారించుము అవి నీకు తెలియజేయును.
8 భూమినిగూర్చి ధ్యానించినయెడల అది నీకు భోధించునుసముద్రములోని చేపలును నీకు దాని వివరించును
9 వీటి అన్నిటినిబట్టి యోచించుకొనినయెడలయెహోవా హస్తము వీటిని కలుగజేసెనని తెలిసికొనలేనివాడెవడు?
10 జీవరాసుల ప్రాణమును మనుష్యులందరి ఆత్మలును ఆయన వశమున నున్నవి గదా.
11 అంగిలి ఆహారమును రుచి చూచునట్లుచెవి మాటలను పరీక్షింపదా?
12 వృద్ధులయొద్ద జ్ఞానమున్నది, దీర్ఘాయువువలన వివేచన కలుగుచున్నది. అని మీరు చెప్పుదురు
13 జ్ఞానశౌర్యములు ఆయనయొద్ద ఉన్నవిఆలోచనయు వివేచనయు ఆయనకు కలవు.
14 ఆలోచించుము ఆయన పడగొట్టగా ఎవరును మరలకట్టజాలరుఆయన మనుష్యుని చెరలో మూసివేయగా తెరచుట ఎవరికిని సాధ్యము కాదు.
15 ఆలోచించుము ఆయన జలములను బిగబట్టగా అవి ఆరిపోవునువాటిని ప్రవహింపనియ్యగా అవి భూమిని ముంచివేయును.
16 బలమును జ్ఞానమును ఆయనకు స్వభావలక్షణములుమోసపడువారును మోసపుచ్చువారును ఆయన వశ మున నున్నారు.
17 ఆలోచనకర్తలను వస్త్రహీనులనుగా చేసి ఆయన వారిని తోడుకొని పోవును.న్యాయాధిపతులను అవివేకులనుగా కనుపరచును.
18 రాజుల అధికారమును ఆయన కొట్టివేయునువారి నడుములకు గొలుసులు కట్టును.
19 యాజకులను వస్త్రహీనులనుగాచేసి వారిని తోడుకొని పోవునుస్థిరముగా నాటుకొనినవారిని ఆయన పడగొట్టును.
20 వాక్చాతుర్యము గలవారి పలుకును ఆయన నిరర్థకము చేయునుపెద్దలను బుద్ధిలేనివారినిగా చేయును.
21 అధిపతులను ఆయన తిరస్కారము చేయును బలాఢ్యుల నడికట్లను విప్పును.
22 చీకటిలోని రహస్యములను ఆయన బయలుపరచుచుమరణాంధకారమును వెలుగులోనికి రప్పించును
23 జనములను విస్తరింపజేయును నిర్మూలముచేయునుసరిహద్దులను విశాలపరచును జనములను కొనిపోవును.
24 భూజనుల అధిపతుల వివేచనను ఆయన నిరర్థక పరచునుత్రోవలేని మహారణ్యములో వారిని తిరుగులాడ చేయును.
25 వారు వెలుగులేక చీకటిలో తడబడుచుందురుమత్తుగొనినవాడు తూలునట్లు ఆయన వారిని తూలచేయును.
1 And Job answered and said,
2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?
10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
17 He leadeth counsellers away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.
22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
1 And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.
6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.
7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
9 And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
10 Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
11 And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
18 And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.
22 And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the Lord commanded Moses.
23 And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
24 All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
26 A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
31 And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.