Job 17
1 ನನ್ನ ಉಸಿರು ಕಟ್ಟಿದೆ; ನನ್ನ ದಿವಸಗಳು ಮುಗಿದಿವೆ; ಸಮಾಧಿಗಳು ನನಗೆ ಸಿದ್ಧ ವಾಗಿವೆ.
2 ಹಾಸ್ಯಗಾರರು ನನ್ನ ಬಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇದ್ದಾರ ಲ್ಲವೋ? ಅವರ ಕೋಪದಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಣು ಮುಂದು ವರಿಯುತ್ತದಲ್ಲಾ.
3 ದಯಮಾಡಿ ನನ್ನ ಸಂಗಡ ಇದ್ದು ನಿನ್ನೊಂದಿಗೆ ನನಗೆ ಹೊಣೆಯಾಗು; ನನ್ನೊಂದಿಗೆ ಕೈ ತಟ್ಟುವವರು ಯಾರು?
4 ಅವರ ಹೃದಯವನ್ನು ಬುದ್ಧಿಗೆ ಅಡಗಿಸಿದಿ; ಆದದರಿಂದ ನೀನು ಅವರನ್ನು ಉನ್ನತಕ್ಕೇರಿಸುವದಿಲ್ಲ.
5 ತನ್ನ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರನ್ನು ಹೊಗಳಿ ಮಾತನಾಡುವವನ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳು ಕ್ಷೀಣವಾಗುವವು.
6 ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಜನರಿಗೆ ಗಾದೆಯಾಗ ಮಾಡಿದನು; ಅವರ ಮುಂದೆ ನಾನು ಬಾರಿಸುವ ವಾದ್ಯವಾದೆನು.
7 ನನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಣು ದುಃಖದಿಂದ ಮೊಬ್ಬಾಯಿತು; ನನ್ನ ಅಂಗಗಳೆಲ್ಲಾ ನೆರಳಿನ ಹಾಗೆ ಅವೆ.
8 ಇದಕ್ಕೋಸ್ಕರ ಯಥಾರ್ಥರು ಆಶ್ಚರ್ಯ ಪಡುವರು: ನಿರ್ಮಲನು ಕಪಟಿಗೆ ವಿರೋಧವಾಗಿ ತನ್ನನ್ನು ಉದ್ರೇಕಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವನು.
9 ಆದರೆ ನೀತಿವಂತನು ತನ್ನ ಮಾರ್ಗವನ್ನು ಹಿಡಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವನು. ಶುದ್ಧ ಕೈಗಳು ಳ್ಳವನು ಬರಬರುತ್ತಾ ಬಲಗೊಳ್ಳುವನು.
10 ಆದಾಗ್ಯೂ ನೀವೆಲ್ಲರೂ ತಿರುಗಿಕೊಂಡು ಬನ್ನಿರಿ; ನಿಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ನಾನು ಜ್ಞಾನಿಯನ್ನು ಕಂಡುಕೊಳ್ಳಲಿಲ್ಲ.
11 ನನ್ನ ದಿವಸಗಳು ಹಾದು ಹೋದವು: ನನ್ನ ಹೃದ ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಸ್ವಂತವಾಗಿರುವ ನನ್ನ ಉದ್ದೇಶಗಳು ಭಂಗವಾ ದವು.
12 ಅವರು ರಾತ್ರಿಯನ್ನು ಹಗಲನ್ನಾಗಿ ಮಾಡು ತ್ತಾರೆ; ಬೆಳಕು ಕತ್ತಲೆಯ ನಿಮಿತ್ತ ಚಿಕ್ಕದಾಗಿದೆ.
13 ನಾನು ನಿರೀಕ್ಷಿಸಿದರೆ ಸಮಾಧಿಯೇ ನನ್ನ ಮನೆ; ಕತ್ತಲೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ ಹಾಸಿಗೆಯನ್ನು ಹಾಸಿದ್ದೇನೆ.
14 ಕೊಳೆಯುವಿಕೆಗೆ -- ನೀನು ನನ್ನ ತಂದೆ ಎಂದೂ ಹುಳಕ್ಕೆ--ನನ್ನ ತಾಯಿಯೇ, ನನ್ನ ಅಕ್ಕನೇ ಎಂದೂ ನಾನು ಹೇಳಿದೆನು.
15 ಹಾಗಾದರೆ ಈಗ ನನ್ನ ನಿರೀಕ್ಷೆ ಎಲ್ಲಿ? ನನ್ನ ನಿರೀಕ್ಷೆಯನ್ನು ಯಾರು ನೋಡುವರು?
16 ನಮ್ಮ ಸಂಗಡ ಧೂಳಿನಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿಯಲ್ಲಿರುವಾಗ ಅವರು ಪಾತಾಳದ ಅಗುಳಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಇಳಿದು ಹೋಗುವರು.
1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
13 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
15 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
1 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.