अय्यूब 1
1 ऊज़ देश में अय्यूब नाम एक पुरुष था; वह खरा और सीधा था और परमेश्वर का भय मानता और बुराई से परे रहता था।
2 उसके सात बेटे और तीन बेटियां उत्पन्न हुई।
3 फिर उसके सात हजार भेड़-बकरियां, तीन हजार ऊंट, पांच सौ जोड़ी बैल, और पांच सौ गदहियां, और बहुत ही दास-दासियां थीं; वरन उसके इतनी सम्पत्ति थी, कि पूरबियों में वह सब से बड़ा था।
4 उसके बेटे उपने अपने दिन पर एक दूसरे के घर में खाने-पीने को जाया करते थे; और अपनी तीनों बहिनों को अपने संग खाने-पीने के लिये बुलवा भेजते थे।
5 और जब जब जेवनार के दिन पूरे हो जाते, तब तब अय्यूब उन्हें बुलवा कर पवित्र करता, और बड़ी भोर उठ कर उनकी गिनती के अनुसार होमबलि चढ़ाता था; क्योंकि अय्यूब सोचता था, कि कदाचित मेरे लड़कों ने पाप कर के परमेश्वर को छोड़ दिया हो। इसी रीति अय्यूब सदैव किया करता था।
6 एक दिन यहोवा परमेश्वर के पुत्र उसके साम्हने उपस्थित हुए, और उनके बीच शैतान भी आया।
7 यहोवा ने शैतान से पूछा, तू कहां से आता है? शैतान ने यहोवा को उत्तर दिया, कि पृथ्वी पर इधर-उधर घूमते-फिरते और डोलते-डालते आया हूँ।
8 यहोवा ने शैतान से पूछा, क्या तू ने मेरे दास अय्यूब पर ध्यान दिया है? क्योंकि उसके तुल्य खरा और सीधा और मेरा भय मानने वाला और बुराई से दूर रहने वाला मनुष्य और कोई नहीं है।
9 शैतान ने यहोवा को उत्तर दिया, क्या अय्यूब परमेश्वर का भय बिना लाभ के मानता है?
10 क्या तू ने उसकी, और उसके घर की, और जो कुछ उसका है उसके चारों ओर बाड़ा नहीं बान्धा? तू ने तो उसके काम पर आशीष दी है,
11 और उसकी सम्पत्ति देश भर में फैल गई है। परन्तु अब अपना हाथ बढ़ाकर जो कुछ उसका है, उसे छू; तब वह तेरे मुंह पर तेरी निन्दा करेगा।
12 यहोवा ने शैतान से कहा, सुन, जो कुछ उसका है, वह सब तेरे हाथ में है; केवल उसके शरीर पर हाथ न लगाना। तब शैतान यहोवा के साम्हने से चला गया।
13 एक दिन अय्यूब के बेटे-बेटियां बड़े भाई के घर में खाते और दाखमधु पी रहे थे;
14 तब एक दूत अय्यूब के पास आकर कहने लगा, हम तो बैलों से हल जोत रहे थे, और गदहियां उनके पास चर रही थी,
15 कि शबा के लोग धावा कर के उन को ले गए, और तलवार से तेरे सेवकों को मार डाला; और मैं ही अकेला बचकर तुझे समाचार देने को आया हूँ।
16 वह अभी यह कह ही रहा था कि दूसरा भी आकर कहने लगा, कि परमेश्वर की आग आकाश से गिरी और उस से भेड़-बकरियां और सेवक जलकर भस्म हो गए; और मैं ही अकेला बचकर तुझे समाचार देने को आया हूँ।
17 वह अभी यह कह ही रहा था, कि एक और भी आकर कहने लगा, कि कसदी लोग तीन गोल बान्धकर ऊंटों पर धावा कर के उन्हें ले गए, और तलवार से तेरे सेवकों को मार डाला; और मैं ही अकेला बचकर तुझे समाचार देने को आया हूँ।
18 वह अभी यह कह ही रहा था, कि एक और भी आकर कहने लगा, तेरे बेटे-बेटियां बड़े भाई के घर में खाते और दाखमधु पीते थे,
19 कि जंगल की ओर से बड़ी प्रचण्ड वायु चली, और घर के चारों कोनों को ऐसा झोंका मारा, कि वह जवानों पर गिर पड़ा और वे मर गए; और मैं ही अकेला बचकर तुझे समाचार देने को आया हूँ।
20 तब अय्यूब उठा, और बागा फाड़, सिर मुंड़ाकर भूमि पर गिरा और दण्डवत् कर के कहा,
21 मैं अपनी मां के पेट से नंगा निकला और वहीं नंगा लौट जाऊंगा; यहोवा ने दिया और यहोवा ही ने लिया; यहोवा का नाम धन्य है।
22 इन सब बातों में भी अय्यूब ने न तो पाप किया, और न परमेश्वर पर मूर्खता से दोष लगाया।
1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.
7 And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
8 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
9 Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
12 And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.
13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
1 Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the Lord of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.
3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.
4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.
5 And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
6 And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.
7 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
8 And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day.
9 And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and said, How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?
10 So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
11 And the ark of the Lord continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and the Lord blessed Obed-edom, and all his household.
12 And it was told king David, saying, The Lord hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness.
13 And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
14 And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
16 And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.
17 And they brought in the ark of the Lord, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
18 And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.
19 And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.
20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
21 And David said unto Michal, It was before the Lord, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel: therefore will I play before the Lord.
22 And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.