Job 35
1 વળી અલીહૂએ અનુસંધાનમાં કહ્યું;
2 “અયૂબ, તું દેવને પૂછ, ‘જો કોઇ દેવને પ્રસન્ન કરવાનો પ્રયત્ન કરે તો તેને શું ફાયદો થાય? જો મે પાપ ન કર્યા હોત તો મને વધારે ફાયદો થાત?’
3 તું એમ માને છે કે, આમ કહેવું તે યોગ્ય છે? તું કહે છે; ‘દેવ કરતા હું વધારે સાચો સત્ય છું?”
4 હું તને તથા તારા બધા મિત્રોને એક સાથે જવાબ આપીશ.
5 ઊંચે આકાશમાં જો! જો વાદળાં તારા કરતાં કેટલાં ઊંચા છે!
6 અયૂબ, જો તમે પાપ કરો, તો તેમાં દેવને કોઇ રીતે હાનિ થવાની નથી. જો તમારી પાસે ખૂબ પાપ ભર્યા હોય તો તેમાં દેવનું કાંઇ નુકસાન નથી.
7 અને અયૂબ, જો તું સારો હોય તો તે કોઇ રીતે દેવને સહાયરૂપ નથી. તારી પાસેથી દેવને કાંઇ મળવાનું નથી.
8 અયૂબ, તુ જે કાંઇ સારું કે ખરાબ કાર્ય કરે છે તે તારી જેમ ફકત બીજાઓને અસર થાય છે. તેઓ દેવને મદદ કે હાનિ કરતા નથી.
9 જો દુષ્ટ લોકોને હાનિ થાય તો તેઓ મદદ માટે પોકાર કરશે. તેઓ શકિતશાળી લોકો પાસે જાય છે અને મદદ માંગે છે.
10 પરંતુ તે દુષ્ટ લોકો, તેઓને મદદ કરવાનું દેવને કહેતા નથી. તેઓ કહેશે નહિ મારા સર્જનહાર દેવ ક્યાં છે? દેવ જેઓ ઉત્સાહ ભંગ છે, તેઓને મદદ કરે છે. તો તે ક્યાં છે?
11 જે દેવે આપણને પશુઓ અને પંખીઓ કરતાં વધારે સમજુ બનાવ્યા છે તો તે ક્યાં છે!
12 તેઓ બૂમો પાડે છે, પણ કોઇ એમને સાંભળતું નથી, કારણકે એમનામાં અનિષ્ટનું અભિમાન હોય છે.
13 એ સાચું છે, દેવ તેઓની નિરર્થક માંગણીઓ પર ધ્યાન આપશે નહિ. સર્વસમર્થ દેવ તેઓ તરફ જરા પણ ધ્યાન આપશે નહિ.
14 તેથી અયૂબ, તું કહે છે કે, તું તેને જોતો નથી, ત્યારે દેવ તેને સાંભળશે નહિ. તુું કહે છે કે તું દેવને મળવાની તકની રાહ જુએ છે અને તારી નિદોર્ષતા સાબિત કરે છે.
15 અયૂબ, વિચારે છે કે દેવ દુષ્ટ લોકોને સજા કરતા નથી. તે વિચારે છે કે દેવ પાપ જોતા નથી.
16 તેથી અયૂબ, તેની અર્થ વગરની વાતો કરે છે. અયૂબ જાણે તે મહત્વશીલ હોય તેમ વતેર્ છે. એ સહેલાઇથી જાણી જવાય છે કે અયૂબને તે શેના વિશે બોલે છે તેની તેને ખબર નથી.”
1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,
2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
0 Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
1 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?
7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
8 O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
11 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.
16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
17 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
18 For the Lord is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:
21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.
24 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.
36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.
41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.
44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
46 How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
49 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
52 Blessed be the Lord for evermore. Amen, and Amen.