अय्यूब 3

1 इसके बाद अय्यूब मुंह खोल कर अपने जन्मदिन को धिक्कारने

2 और कहने लगा,

3 वह दिन जल जाए जिस में मैं उत्पन्न हुआ, और वह रात भी जिस में कहा गया, कि बेटे का गर्भ रहा।

4 वह दिन अन्धियारा हो जाए! ऊपर से ईश्वर उसकी सुधि न ले, और न उस में प्रकाश होए।

5 अन्धियारा और मृत्यु की छाया उस पर रहे। बादल उस पर छाए रहें; और दिन को अन्धेरा कर देने वाली चीज़ें उसे डराएं।

6 घोर अन्धकार उस रात को पकड़े; वर्ष के दिनों के बीच वह आनन्द न करने पाए, और न महीनों में उसकी गिनती की जाए।

7 सुनो, वह रात बांझ हो जाए; उस में गाने का शब्द न सुन पड़े

8 जो लोग किसी दिन को धिक्कारते हैं, और लिब्यातान को छेड़ने में निपुण हैं, उसे धिक्कारें।

9 उसकी संध्या के तारे प्रकाश न दें; वह उजियाले की बाट जोहे पर वह उसे न मिले, वह भोर की पलकों को भी देखने न पाए;

10 क्योंकि उसने मेरी माता की कोख को बन्द न किया और कष्ट को मेरी दृष्टि से न छिपाया।

11 मैं गर्भ ही में क्यों न मर गया? पेट से निकलते ही मेरा प्राण क्यों न छूटा?

12 मैं घुटनों पर क्यों लिया गया? मैं छातियों को क्यों पीने पाया?

13 ऐसा न होता तो मैं चुपचाप पड़ा रहता, मैं सोता रहता और विश्राम करता,

14 और मैं पृथ्वी के उन राजाओं और मन्त्रियों के साथ होता जिन्होंने अपने लिये सुनसान स्थान बनवा लिए,

15 वा मैं उन राजकुमारों के साथ होता जिनके पास सोना था जिन्होंने अपने घरों को चान्दी से भर लिया था;

16 वा मैं असमय गिरे हुए गर्भ की नाईं हुआ होता, वा ऐसे बच्चों के समान होता जिन्होंने उजियाले को कभी देखा ही न हो।

17 उस दशा में दुष्ट लोग फिर दु:ख नहीं देते, और थके मांदे विश्राम पाते हैं।

18 उस में बन्धुए एक संग सुख से रहते हैं; और परिश्रम कराने वाले का शब्द नहीं सुनते।

19 उस में छोटे बड़े सब रहते हैं, और दास अपने स्वामी से स्वतन्त्र रहता है।

20 दु:खियों को उजियाला, और उदास मन वालों को जीवन क्यों दिया जाता है?

21 वे मृत्यु की बाट जोहते हैं पर वह आती नहीं; और गड़े हुए धन से अधिक उसकी खोज करते हैं;

22 वे क़ब्र को पहुंचकर आनन्दित और अत्यन्त मगन होते हैं।

23 उजियाला उस पुरुष को क्यों मिलता है जिसका मार्ग छिपा है, जिसके चारों ओर ईश्वर ने घेरा बान्ध दिया है?

24 मुझे तो रोटी खाने की सन्ती लम्बी लम्बी सांसें आती हैं, और मेरा विलाप धारा की नाईं बहता रहता है।

25 क्योंकि जिस डरावनी बात से मैं डरता हूँ, वही मुझ पर आ पड़ती है, और जिस बात से मैं भय खाता हूँ वही मुझ पर आ जाती है।

26 मुझे न तो चैन, न शान्ति, न विश्राम मिलता है; परन्तु दु:ख ही आता है।

1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

2 And Job spake, and said,

3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14 With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

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.