Job 2

1 ತಿರಿಗಿ ಒಂದು ದಿನ ಕರ್ತನ ಬಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಂತುಕೊಳ್ಳುವದಕ್ಕೆ ದೇವರ ಪುತ್ರರು ಬಂದಾಗ ಸೈತಾನನು ಸಹ ಅವರ ಸಂಗಡ ಬಂದನು.

2 ಆಗ ಕರ್ತನು ಸೈತಾನನಿಗೆ--ನೀನು ಎಲ್ಲಿಂದ ಬಂದೆ ಅಂದನು. ಸೈತಾನನು ಪ್ರತ್ಯುತ್ತರವಾಗಿ ಕರ್ತನಿಗೆಭೂಮಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಅತ್ತಿಂದ ಇತ್ತ ಇತ್ತಿಂದ ಅತ್ತ, ಮೇಲೆಯೂ ಕೆಳಗೂ ಹೋಗುತ್ತಾ ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆ ದಾಡಿ ಬಂದೆನು ಅಂದನು.

3 ಆಗ ಕರ್ತನು ಸೈತಾನನಿಗೆ--ನೀನು ಎಲ್ಲಿಂದ ಬಂದೆ ಅಂದನು. ಸೈತಾನನು ಪ್ರತ್ಯುತ್ತರವಾಗಿ ಕರ್ತನಿಗೆಭೂಮಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಅತ್ತಿಂದ ಇತ್ತ ಇತ್ತಿಂದ ಅತ್ತ, ಮೇಲೆಯೂ ಕೆಳಗೂ ಹೋಗುತ್ತಾ ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆ ದಾಡಿ ಬಂದೆನು ಅಂದನು.

4 ಸೈತಾನನು ಪ್ರತ್ಯುತ್ತರವಾಗಿ ಕರ್ತ ನಿಗೆ--ಹೌದು, ಚರ್ಮಕ್ಕೆ ಚರ್ಮ, ತನಗೆ ಉಂಟಾ ದದ್ದನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ತನ್ನ ಪ್ರಾಣಕ್ಕೊಸ್ಕರ ಮನುಷ್ಯನು ಕೊಡು ವನು.

5 ಆದರೆ ನಿನ್ನ ಕೈಚಾಚಿ ಅವನ ಎಲುಬನ್ನೂ ಅವನ ಮಾಂಸವನ್ನೂ ಮುಟ್ಟಿದರೆ ಅವನು ನಿನ್ನ ಎದುರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ಶಪಿಸುವನು ಅಂದನು.

6 ಆಗ ಕರ್ತನು ಸೈತಾನನಿಗೆ--ಇಗೋ, ಅವನು ನಿನ್ನ ಕೈಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇದ್ದಾನೆ; ಅವನ ಪ್ರಾಣವನ್ನಾದರೋ ಉಳಿಸಲೇ ಬೇಕು ಅಂದನು.

7 ಆಗ ಸೈತಾನನು ಕರ್ತನ ಸಮ್ಮುಖ ದಿಂದ ಹೊರಟು ಯೋಬನಿಗೆ ಅಂಗಾಲಿನಿಂದ ನೆತ್ತಿಯ ವರೆಗೆ ಕೆಟ್ಟ ಹುಣ್ಣುಗಳು ಬರುವ ಹಾಗೆ ಅವನನ್ನು ಹೊಡೆದನು.

8 ಅವನು ಬೋಕಿ ತಕ್ಕೊಂಡು ತನ್ನನ್ನು ತುರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಬೂದಿಯ ನಡುವೆ ಕೂತನು.

9 ಆಗ ಅವನ ಹೆಂಡತಿಯು ಅವನಿಗೆ--ಇನ್ನೂ ಯಥಾರ್ಥ ತ್ವದಲ್ಲಿ ಉಳಿದಿದ್ದೀಯೋ? ದೇವರನ್ನು ಶಪಿಸಿ ಸಾಯಿ ಅಂದಳು.

10 ಆದರೆ ಅವನು ಅವಳಿಗೆ--ಮೂರ್ಖ ಹೆಂಗಸರಲ್ಲಿ ಒಬ್ಬಳು ಮಾತನಾಡುವ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ನೀನೂ ಮಾತನಾಡುವಿಯಾ? ದೇವರ ಕೈಯಿಂದ ಒಳ್ಳೇದನ್ನು ಹೊಂದುತ್ತೇವಲ್ಲಾ? ಕೆಟ್ಟದ್ದನ್ನು ಹೊಂದುವದು ಬೇಡವೋ ಅಂದನು. ಇವೆಲ್ಲವುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಯೋಬನು ತನ್ನ ತುಟಿಗಳಿಂದ ಪಾಪಮಾಡಲಿಲ್ಲ.

11 ಇದಲ್ಲದೆ ಯೋಬನ ಮೂವರು ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರು ಅವನ ಮೇಲೆ ಬಂದ ಈ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕೇಡನ್ನು ಕುರಿತು ಕೇಳಿ ತಮ್ಮ ತಮ್ಮ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳಿಂದ ಬಂದರು. ಅವರಾ ರಂದರೆ; ತೇಮಾನ್ಯನಾದ ಎಲೀಫಜನು, ಶೂಹ್ಯನಾದ ಬಿಲ್ದದನು, ನಾಮಾಥ್ಯನಾದ ಚೋಫರನು; ಇವರು ಅವನಿಗೋಸ್ಕರ ಗೋಳಾಡುವದಕ್ಕೂ ಅವನನ್ನು ಸಂತೈ ಸುವದಕ್ಕೂ ಹೋಗಬೇಕೆಂದು ತಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿ ಆಲೋಚನೆ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡರು.

12 ಅವರು ದೂರದಿಂದ ತಮ್ಮ ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳನ್ನು ಎತ್ತಿದಾಗ ಅವನ ಗುರುತು ತಿಳಿಯದೆ ತಮ್ಮ ಸ್ವರವನ್ನೆತ್ತಿ ಅತ್ತು, ತಮ್ಮ ತಮ್ಮ ನಿಲುವಂಗಿಗಳನ್ನು ಹರಿದು, ತಮ್ಮ ತಲೆಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಧೂಳನ್ನೂ ಆಕಾಶದ ಕಡೆಗೆ ತೂರಿದರು.

13 ಅವರು ಅವನ ಸಂಗಡ ಏಳು ಹಗಲು ಏಳು ರಾತ್ರಿ ನೆಲದ ಮೇಲೆ ಕೂತುಕೊಂಡರು. ಒಬ್ಬನಾದರೂ ಒಂದು ಮಾತನ್ನೂ ಅವನಿಗೆ ಹೇಳಲಿಲ್ಲ; ಯಾಕಂದರೆ ಅವನ ದುಃಖವು ಬಹಳ ಅಧಿಕವೆಂದು ನೋಡಿದರು.

1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord.

2 And the Lord said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

3 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? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

4 And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

6 And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.

3 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:

7 But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.

8 Then Manoah intreated the Lord, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.

10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.

11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.

12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?

13 And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.

14 She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.

15 And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.

16 And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the Lord.

17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?

18 And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?

19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.

21 But the angel of the Lord did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the Lord.

22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

23 But his wife said unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him.

25 And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.