अय्यूब 5

1 पुकार कर देख; क्या कोई है जो तुझे उत्तर देगा? और पवित्रों में से तू किस की ओर फिरेगा?

2 क्योंकि मूढ़ तो खेद करते करते नाश हो जाता है, और भोला जलते जलते मर मिटता है।

3 मैं ने मूढ़ को जड़ पकड़ते देखा है; परन्तु अचानक मैं ने उसके वासस्थान को धिक्कारा।

4 उसके लड़के-बाले उद्धार से दूर हैं, और वे फाटक में पीसे जाते हैं, और कोई नहीं है जो उन्हें छुड़ाए।

5 उसके खेत की उपज भूखे लोग खा लेते हैं, वरन कटीली बाड़ में से भी निकाल लेते हैं; और प्यासा उनके धन के लिये फन्दा लगाता है।

6 क्योंकि विपत्ति धूल से उत्पन्न नहीं होती, और न कष्ट भूमि में से उगता है;

7 परन्तु जैसे चिंगारियां ऊपर ही ऊपर को उड़ जाती हैं,वैसे ही मनुष्य कष्ट ही भोगने के लिये उत्पन्न हुआ है।

8 परन्तु मैं तो ईश्वर ही को खोजता रहूंगा और अपना मुक़द्दमा परमेश्वर पर छोड़ दूंगा।

9 वह तो एसे बड़े काम करता है जिनकी थाह नहीं लगती, और इतने आश्चर्यकर्म करता है, जो गिने नहीं जाते।

10 वही पृथ्वी के ऊपर वर्षा करता, और खेतों पर जल बरसाता है।

11 इसी रीति वह नम्र लोगों को ऊंचे स्थान पर बिठाता है, और शोक का पहिरावा पहिने हुए लोग ऊंचे पर पहुँचकर बचते हैं।

12 वह तो धूर्त्त लोगों की कल्पनाएं व्यर्थ कर देता है, और उनके हाथों से कुछ भी बन नहीं पड़ता।

13 वह बुद्धिमानों को उनकी धूर्त्तता ही में फंसाता है; और कुटिल लोगों की युक्ति दूर की जाती है।

14 उन पर दिन को अन्धेरा छा जाता है, और दिन दुपहरी में वे रात की नाईं टटोलते फिरते हैं।

15 परन्तु वह दरिद्रों को उनके वचनरुपी तलवार से और बलवानों के हाथ से बचाता है।

16 इसलिये कंगालों को आशा होती है, और कुटिल मनुष्यों का मुंह बन्द हो जाता है।

17 देख, क्या ही धन्य वह मनुष्य, जिस को ईश्वर ताड़ना देता है; इसलिये तू सर्वशक्तिमान की ताड़ना को तुच्छ मत जान।

18 क्योंकि वही घायल करता, और वही पट्टी भी बान्धता है; वही मारता है, और वही अपने हाथों से चंगा भी करता है।

19 वह तुझे छ: विपत्तियों से छुड़ाएगा; वरन सात से भी तेरी कुछ हानि न होने पाएगी।

20 अकाल में वह तुझे मुत्यु से, और युद्ध में तलवार की धार से बचा लेगा।

21 तू वचनरूपी कोड़े से बचा रहेगा और जब विनाश आए, तब भी तुझे भय न होगा।

22 तू उजाड़ और अकाल के दिनों में हँसमुख रहेगा, और तुझे बनैले जन्तुओं से डर न लगेगा।

23 वरन मैदान के पत्थर भी तुझ से वाचा बान्धे रहेंगे, और वनपशु तुझ से मेल रखेंगे।

24 और तुझे निश्चय होगा, कि तेरा डेरा कुशल से है, और जब तू अपने निवास में देखे तब कोई वस्तु खोई न होगी।

25 तुझे यह भी निश्चित होगा, कि मेरे बहुत वंश होंगे। और मेरे सन्तान पृथ्वी की घास के तुल्य बहुत होंगे।

26 जैसे पूलियों का ढेर समय पर खलिहान में रखा जाता है, वैसे ही तू पूरी अवस्था का हो कर क़ब्र को पहुंचेगा।

27 देख, हम ने खोज खोजकर ऐसा ही पाया है; इसे तू सुन, और अपने लाभ के लिये ध्यान में रख।

1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

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.