Job 31
1 ನನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳೊಡನೆ ಒಡಂಬಡಿಕೆ ಮಾಡಿದೆನು; ಕನ್ನಿಕೆಯ ಮೇಲೆ ಲಕ್ಷ್ಯವಿಡುವದು ಹೇಗೆ?
2 ಮೇಲಿನಿಂದ ದೇವರ ಭಾಗವೂ ಉನ್ನತ ವಾದ ಸ್ಥಳಗಳಿಂದ ಸರ್ವಶಕ್ತನ ಬಾಧ್ಯತೆಯೂ ಯಾವದು?
3 ದುಷ್ಟನಿಗೆ ನಾಶವಿಲ್ಲವೋ? ಅಪಕಾರ ಮಾಡುವವರಿಗೆ ಕಠಿಣ ಶಿಕ್ಷೆಯಿಲ್ಲವೋ?
4 ಆತನು ನನ್ನ ಮಾರ್ಗಗಳನ್ನು ನೋಡಿ, ನನ್ನ ಹೆಜ್ಜೆಗಳನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ಎಣಿಸುವಾತನಲ್ಲವೋ?
5 ನಾನು ವ್ಯರ್ಥವಾಗಿ ನಡೆದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದರೆ ಮೋಸಕ್ಕೆ ನನ್ನ ಕಾಲು ತ್ವರೆಪಟ್ಟರೆ
6 ಆತನು ನೀತಿಯ ತ್ರಾಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ತೂಗಲಿ; ದೇವರು ನನ್ನ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣತೆಯನ್ನು ತಿಳಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳಲಿ.
7 ನನ್ನ ಹೆಜ್ಜೆಯು ದಾರಿಯಿಂದ ತೊಲಗಿದ್ದರೆ, ನನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳ ಹಿಂದೆ ನನ್ನ ಹೃದಯವು ಹೋಗಿದ್ದರೆ, ನನ್ನ ಅಂಗೈಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ದೋಷ ಹತ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ,
8 ನಾನು ಬಿತ್ತುವದನ್ನು ಬೇರೊಬ್ಬನು ತಿನ್ನಲಿ; ಹೌದು, ನನ್ನ ಸಂತತಿಯು ನಿರ್ಮೂಲವಾಗಲಿ.
9 ನನ್ನ ಹೃದಯವು ಸ್ತ್ರೀಗೋಸ್ಕರ ಮರುಳು ಗೊಂಡಿದ್ದರೆ, ನನ್ನ ನೆರೆಯವನ ಬಾಗಲ ಹತ್ತಿರ ನಾನು ಹೊಂಚಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದರೆ,
10 ನನ್ನ ಹೆಂಡತಿ ಮತ್ತೊಬ್ಬನಿ ಗೊಸ್ಕರ ಬೀಸಲಿ; ಮತ್ತೊಬ್ಬರು ಅವಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಒರಗಲಿ.
11 ಯಾಕಂದರೆ ಅದು ಮಹಾ ಪಾಪವೂ ಹೌದು, ನ್ಯಾಯಾಧಿಪತಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಬರುವ ಅಕ್ರಮವೂ ಆಗಿರುವದು.
12 ಅದು ನಾಶವಾಗುವ ವರೆಗೆ ದಹಿ ಸುವಂಥ, ಆದಾಯವನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ನಿರ್ಮೂಲ ಮಾಡು ವಂಥ ಆಗ್ನಿಯಾಗಿರುವದು.
13 ಅವರು ನನ್ನ ಸಂಗಡ ವಾದಿಸುವಾಗ ನಾನು ನನ್ನ ದಾಸನ, ದಾಸಿಯ ನ್ಯಾಯವನ್ನು ತಿರಸ್ಕರಿಸಿದ್ದರೆ,
14 ದೇವರು ಏಳುವಾಗ ನಾನು ಏನು ಮಾಡುವೆನು? ಆತನು ವಿಚಾರಿಸುವಾಗ, ಆತನಿಗೆ ಏನು ಉತ್ತರ ಕೊಡುವೆನು?
15 ಗರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಉಂಟುಮಾಡಿ ದಾತನು ಅವನನ್ನೂ ಉಂಟು ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾನಲ್ಲಾ? ನಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಗರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ರೂಪಿಸಿದಾತನು ಒಬ್ಬನೇ ಅಲ್ಲವೋ?
16 ನಾನು ಬಡವರ ಇಷ್ಟವನ್ನು ಹಿಂತೆಗೆದಿದ್ದರೆ ವಿಧ ವೆಯ ಕಣ್ಣುಗಳನ್ನು ನಿರಾಶೆಪಡಿಸಿದ್ದರೆ,
17 ದಿಕ್ಕಿಲ್ಲದ ವನು ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಉಣ್ಣದ ಹಾಗೆ ನಾನು ಮಾತ್ರ ನನ್ನ ತುತ್ತು ಉಂಡಿದ್ದರೆ,
18 (ಯಾಕಂದರೆ ನನ್ನ ಯೌವನದಿಂದ ನನ್ನೊಂದಿಗೆ ನಾನು ಅವನನ್ನು ತಂದೆ ಯಂತೆ ಬೆಳೆಸಿದೆನಲ್ಲಾ. ನನ್ನ ತಾಯಿಯ ಗರ್ಭದಿಂದ ಅವಳನ್ನು ನಡಿಸಿದೆನಲ್ಲಾ).
19 ಬಟ್ಟೆ ಇಲ್ಲದೆ ನಾಶ ವಾಗುವವನನ್ನೂ ದರಿದ್ರನಿಗೆ ಹೊದಿಕೆ ಇಲ್ಲದಿರುವ ದನ್ನೂ ನಾನು ನೋಡಿದ್ದರೆ
20 ಅವನ ಸೊಂಟವು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಆಶೀರ್ವದಿಸದಿದ್ದರೆ ನನ್ನ ಕುರಿ ಮಂದೆಯ ಉಣ್ಣೆಯಿಂದ ಅವನಿಗೆ ಬೆಚ್ಚಗೆ ಆಗದಿದ್ದರೆ
21 ದ್ವಾರ ದಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ ಸಹಾಯವನ್ನು ಕಂಡು ನಾನು ದಿಕ್ಕಿಲ್ಲದ ವನ ಮೇಲೆ ನನ್ನ ಕೈಚಾಚಿದ್ದರೆ,
22 ನನ್ನ ಹೆಗಲು ಬೆನ್ನಿನ ಗುಬ್ಬೆಯಿಂದ ಬೀಳಲಿ. ನನ್ನ ತೋಳು ಎಲುಬಿ ನಿಂದ ಮುರಿದು ಹೋಗಲಿ.
23 ದೇವರಿಂದ ಬರುವ ನಾಶವು ನನಗೆ ಹೆದರಿಕೆಯಾಗಿತ್ತು; ಆತನ ಉನ್ನತ ಕ್ಕೋಸ್ಕರ ನಾನು ತಾಳಲಾರದೆ ಇದ್ದೆನು.
24 ನಾನು ಬಂಗಾರವನ್ನು ನನ್ನ ನಿರೀಕ್ಷೆಯನ್ನಾಗಿ ಇಟ್ಟಿದ್ದರೆ, ಅಪ ರಂಜಿಗೆ--ನೀನು ನನ್ನ ಭರವಸವು ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದರೆ,
25 ನನ್ನ ಐಶ್ವರ್ಯವು ಬಹಳವಾಗಿದೆ ಎಂದು ನನ್ನ ಕೈ ಬಹಳವಾಗಿ ಸಂಪಾದಿಸಿ ಕೊಂಡಿತೆಂದು ನಾನು ಸಂತೋಷಿಸಿದ್ದರೆ,
26 ಸೂರ್ಯನು ಹೊಳೆಯುವದನ್ನು ಚಂದ್ರನು ಪ್ರಭೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯುವದನ್ನು ನಾನು ನೋಡಲಾಗಿ,
27 ನನ್ನ ಹೃದಯವು ಅಂತರಂಗದಲ್ಲಿ ಮರುಳುಗೊಂಡು, ನನ್ನ ಬಾಯಿಂದ ನನ್ನ ಕೈಯನ್ನು ಮುದ್ದಿಟ್ಟಿದ್ದರೆ;
28 ಇದು ಸಹ ನ್ಯಾಯಾಧಿಪತಿಯಿಂದ ಶಿಕ್ಷಿಸಲ್ಪಡುವ ಅಪರಾಧವಾಗಿದೆ; ಯಾಕಂದರೆ ಉನ್ನತ ದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ದೇವರನ್ನು ಬೊಂಕಿದವನಾಗಿರುವೆನು.
29 ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಹಗೆಮಾಡುವವನ ನಾಶಕ್ಕೆ ನಾನು ಸಂತೋಷಪಟ್ಟು, ಅವನನ್ನು ಕೇಡು ಕಂಡು ಹಿಡಿಯಿ ತೆಂದು ಗರ್ವಪಟ್ಟರೆ,
30 ಶಾಪದಿಂದ ಅವನ ಪ್ರಾಣ ವನ್ನು ಕೇಳುವುದರಿಂದ ನನ್ನ ಬಾಯಿಯು ಪಾಪ ಮಾಡಗೊಡಿಸಲಿಲ್ಲ.
31 ಅವನ ಮಾಂಸದಿಂದ ನಮಗೆ ತೃಪ್ತಿ ಕೊಡುವವನಾರು ಎಂದು, ನನ್ನ ಗುಡಾರದ ಮನುಷ್ಯರು ಹೇಳಲಿಲ್ಲವೋ?
32 ಪರದೇಶಸ್ಥನು ಬೀದಿ ಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇಳುಕೊಳ್ಳಲಿಲ್ಲ; ಆದರೆ ನನ್ನ ಬಾಗಲನ್ನು ಮಾರ್ಗಸ್ಥರಿಗೆ ತೆರೆಯುತ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದೆನು.
33 ನಾನು ಎದೆ ಯಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ ಅನ್ಯಾಯವನ್ನು ಅಡಗಿಸಿ, ಆದಾಮನ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ನನ್ನ ದ್ರೋಹವನ್ನು ಮುಚ್ಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಿಲ್ಲ.
34 ದೊಡ್ಡ ಸಮೂಹಕ್ಕೆ ಹೆದರಿದೆನೋ? ಕುಲಗಳ ಉದಾಸೀನದಿಂದ ಕಳವಳಗೊಂಡೆನೋ? ಹೊರಗೆ ಬಾರದೆ ಮೌನವಾಗಿದ್ದೆನೋ?
35 ಕೇಳುವವನು ನನಗೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದರೆ ವಾಸಿ; ಇಗೋ, ಸರ್ವಶಕ್ತನು ನನಗೆ ಉತ್ತರಕೊಡಲಿ; ನನ್ನ ವಿರೋ ಧಿಯು ಪುಸ್ತಕವನ್ನು ಬರೆಯಲಿ, ಇದೇ ನನ್ನ ಆಶೆ.
36 ನನ್ನ ಹೆಗಲಲ್ಲಿ ಅದನ್ನು ನಿಶ್ಚಯವಾಗಿ ಹೊರುವೆನು; ಅದನ್ನು ಕಿರೀಟವಾಗಿ ಕಟ್ಟಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವೆನು.
37 ನನ್ನ ಹೆಜ್ಜೆ ಗಳ ಎಣಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಆತನಿಗೆ ತೋರಿಸುವೆನು; ಅಧಿಪತಿ ಯಾಗಿ ಆತನ ಸವಿಾಪಕ್ಕೆ ಬರುವೆನು.
38 ನನ್ನ ಭೂಮಿಯು ನನಗೆ ವಿರೋಧವಾಗಿ ಕೂಗಿದರೆ, ಅದರ ಸಾಲುಗಳು ಕೂಡ ದೂರಿದರೆ,
39 ಅದರ ಫಲವನ್ನು ನಾನು ಹಣಕೊಡದೆ ತಿಂದಿದ್ದರೆ, ಅದರ ಯಾಜಮಾನರ ಪ್ರಾಣವನ್ನು ತೆಗೆದುಬಿಟ್ಟಿದ್ದರೆ,
40 ಗೋಧಿಗೆ ಬದಲಾಗಿ ಮುಳ್ಳೂ ಜವೆಗೋಧಿಗೆ ಬದಲಾಗಿ ಕಳೆಯೂ ಬೆಳೆಯಲಿ. ಯೋಬನ ನುಡಿಗಳು ಮುಗಿದವು.
1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
24 And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.
25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:
26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.
29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.
30 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
31 And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
32 And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
35 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
36 And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.