अय्यूब 13
1 सुनो, मैं यह सब कुछ अपनी आंख से देख चुका, और अपने कान से सुन चुका, और समझ भी चुका हूँ।
2 जो कुछ तुम जानते हो वह मैं भी जानता हूँ; मैं तुम लोगों से कुछ कम नहीं हूँ।
3 मैं तो सर्वशक्तिमान से बातें करूंगा, और मेरी अभिलाषा ईश्वर से वादविवाद करने की है।
4 परन्तु तुम लोग झूठी बात के गढ़ने वाले हो; तुम सबके सब निकम्मे वैद्य हो।
5 भला होता, कि तुम बिलकुल चुप रहते, और इस से तुम बुद्धिमान ठहरते।
6 मेरा विवाद सुनो, और मेरी बहस की बातों पर कान लगाओ।
7 क्या तुम ईश्वर के निमित्त टेढ़ी बातें कहोगे, और उसके पक्ष में कपट से बोलोगे?
8 क्या तुम उसका पक्षपात करोगे? और ईश्वर के लिये मुकद्दमा चलाओगे।
9 क्या यह भला होगा, कि वह तुम को जांचे? क्या जैसा कोई मनुष्य को धोखा दे, वैसा ही तुम क्या उसको भी धेखा दोगे?
10 जो तुम छिपकर पक्षपात करो, तो वह निश्चय तुम को डांटेगा।
11 क्या तुम उसके माहात्म्य से भय न खाओगे? क्या उसका डर तुम्हारे मन में न समाएगा?
12 तुम्हारे स्मरणयोग्य नीतिवचन राख के समान हैं; तुम्हारे कोट मिट्टी ही के ठहरे हैं:
13 मुझ से बात करना छोड़ो, कि मैं भी कुछ कहने पाऊं; फिर मुझ पर जो चाहे वह आ पड़े।
14 मैं क्यों अपना मांस अपने दांतों से चबाऊं? और क्यों अपना प्राण हथेली पर रखूं?
15 वह मुझे घात करेगा, मुझे कुछ आशा नहीं; तौभी मैं अपनी चाल चलन का पक्ष लूंगा।
16 और यह भी मेरे बचाव का कारण होगा, कि भक्तिहीन जन उसके साम्हने नहीं जा सकता।
17 चित्त लगाकर मेरी बात सुनो, और मेरी बिनती तुम्हारे कान में पड़े।
18 देखो, मैं ने अपने बहस की पूरी तैयारी की है; मुझे निश्चय है कि मैं निर्दोष ठहरूंगा।
19 कौन है जो मुझ से मुकद्दमा लड़ सकेगा? ऐसा कोई पाया जाए, तो मैं चुप हो कर प्राण छोडूंगा।
20 दो ही काम मुझ से न कर, तब मैं तुझ से नहीं छिपूंगा:
21 अपनी ताड़ना मुझ से दूर कर ले, और अपने भय से मुझे भयभीत न कर।
22 तब तेरे बुलाने पर मैं बोलूंगा; नहीं तो मैं प्रश्न करूंगा, और तू मुझे उत्तर दे।
23 मुझ से कितने अधर्म के काम और पाप हुए हैं? मेरे अपराध और पाप मुझे जता दे।
24 तू किस कारण अपना मुंह फेर लेता है, और मुझे अपना शत्रु गिनता है?
25 क्या तू उड़ते हुए पत्ते को भी कंपाएगा? और सूखे डंठल के पीछे पड़ेगा?
26 तू मेरे लिये कठिन दु:खों की आज्ञा देता है, और मेरी जवानी के अधर्म का फल मुझे भुगता देता है।
27 और मेरे पांवों को काठ में ठोंकता, और मेरी सारी चाल चलन देखता रहता है; और मेरे पांवों की चारों ओर सीमा बान्ध लेता है।
28 और मैं सड़ी गली वस्तु के तुल्य हूं जो नाश हो जाती है, और कीड़ा खाए कपड़े के तुल्य हूँ।
1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
3 And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.
4 But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
11 We are all one man’s sons; we are true men, thy servants are no spies.
12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
13 And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
14 And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:
15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
17 And he put them all together into ward three days.
18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:
20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.
26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack’s mouth.
28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?
29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
30 The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
31 And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
32 We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:
34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land.
35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.
38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.