Job 42
1 ಯೋಬನು ಕರ್ತನಿಗೆ ಉತ್ತರಕೊಟ್ಟು--
2 ನಿನಗೆ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗಿದೆ; ನಿನಗೆ ಯಾವ ಆಲೋಚನೆಯೂ ತಡೆಯಲ್ಪಡುವದಿಲ್ಲವೆಂದು ತಿಳಿದಿದ್ದೇನೆ.
3 ಆಲೋಚನೆಯನ್ನು ತಿಳುವಳಿಕೆ ಇಲ್ಲದೆ ಮರೆಮಾಡುವವನಾರು? ಆದದರಿಂದ ನಾನು ಗ್ರಹಿ ಸದೆ ಇದ್ದವುಗಳನ್ನು ನಾನು ತಿಳಿಯದಂಥ, ನನಗೆ ಆಶ್ಚರ್ಯವಾದವುಗಳನ್ನು ಉಚ್ಚರಿಸಿದೆನು.
4 ದಯ ಮಾಡಿ ಕೇಳು, ನಾನು ಮಾತಾಡುವೆನು; ನಾನು ಕೇಳು ತ್ತೇನೆ, ನೀನು ನನಗೆ ತಿಳಿಸು.
5 ಕಿವಿಯಿಂದ ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ಕುರಿತು ಕೇಳಿದ್ದೆನು; ಈಗ ನನ್ನ ಕಣ್ಣು ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ನೋಡಿತು.
6 ಆದದರಿಂದ ನನ್ನನ್ನು ಅಸಹ್ಯಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ದೂಳಿಯ ಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಬೂದಿಯಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಪಶ್ಚಾತ್ತಾಪ ಪಡುತ್ತೇನೆ ಅಂದನು.
7 ಕರ್ತನು ಈ ಮಾತುಗಳನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ಯೋಬನಿಗೆ ಹೇಳಿದ ಮೇಲೆ ಕರ್ತನು ತೇಮಾನ್ಯನಾದ ಎಲೀಫಜ ನಿಗೆ -- ನಿನ್ನ ಮೇಲೆಯೂ ನಿನ್ನ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರಿಬ್ಬರ ಮೇಲೆಯೂ ಕೋಪಗೊಂಡಿದ್ದೇನೆ; ನೀವು ನನ್ನ ಸೇವಕನಾದ ಯೋಬನ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ನನ್ನ ವಿಷಯವಾಗಿ ಸರಿಯಾದವುಗಳನ್ನು ಮಾತಾಡಲಿಲ್ಲ.
8 ಹಾಗಾದರೆ ಈಗ ಏಳು ಎತ್ತುಗಳೂ ಏಳು ಹೋತಗಳೂ ನಿಮ ಗೋಸ್ಕರ ತಕ್ಕೊಂಡು ನನ್ನ ಸೇವಕನಾದ ಯೋಬನ ಬಳಿಗೆ ಬನ್ನಿರಿ; ಅವುಗಳನ್ನು ನಿಮಗೋಸ್ಕರ ದಹನ ಬಲಿಯಾಗಿ ಅರ್ಪಿಸಿರಿ; ನನ್ನ ಸೇವಕನಾದ ಯೋಬನು ನಿಮಗೋಸ್ಕರ ಪ್ರಾರ್ಥನೆ ಮಾಡುವನು. ನಾನು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಬುದ್ಧಿಹೀನತೆಯ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಮಾಡದ ಹಾಗೆ ಅವನ ಪ್ರಾರ್ಥನೆಯನ್ನು ಅಂಗೀಕರಿಸುವೆನು. ಯಾಕಂ ದರೆ ನೀವು ನನ್ನ ಸೇವಕನಾದ ಯೋಬನ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ನನ್ನ ವಿಷಯವಾಗಿ ಸರಿಯಾದವುಗಳನ್ನು ಮಾತಾ ಡಲಿಲ್ಲ.
9 ತೇಮಾನ್ಯನಾದ ಎಲೀಫಜನೂ ಶೂಹ್ಯ ನಾದ ಬಿಲ್ದದನೂ ನಾಮಾಥ್ಯನಾದ ಚೋಫರನೂ ಹೋಗಿ ಕರ್ತನು ಅವರಿಗೆ ಹೇಳಿದ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಮಾಡಿದರು. ಕರ್ತನು ಯೋಬನ ಪ್ರಾರ್ಥನೆಯನ್ನು ಅಂಗೀಕರಿಸಿದನು.
10 ಯೋಬನು ತನ್ನ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರಿಗೋಸ್ಕರ ಪ್ರಾರ್ಥನೆ ಮಾಡಿದಾಗ ಕರ್ತನು ಅವನ ಸೆರೆಯನ್ನು ತಿರುಗಿ ಸಿದನು. ಕರ್ತನು ಯೋಬನಿಗೆ ಮೊದಲು ಇದ್ದವು ಗಳಿಗಿಂತ ಎರಡರಷ್ಟು ಕೊಟ್ಟನು.
11 ಆಗ ಅವನ ಸಹೋದರರೆಲ್ಲರೂ ಅವನ ಸಹೋದರಿಯರೆಲ್ಲರೂ ಮುಂಚಿನ ಅವನ ಪರಿಚಿತಿಯವರೆಲ್ಲರೂ ಅವನ ಬಳಿಗೆ ಬಂದು ಅವನ ಸಂಗಡ ಅವನ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ರೊಟ್ಟಿ ತಿಂದು, ಕರ್ತನು ಅವನ ಮೇಲೆ ಬರಮಾಡಿದ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕೇಡಿಗೋಸ್ಕರ ಅವನ ಸಂಗಡ ದುಃಖಪಟ್ಟು ಅವನನ್ನು ಸಂತೈಸಿದರು. ಅವರು ಅವನಿಗೆ ಪ್ರತಿ ಮನುಷ್ಯನು ಒಂದು ಹಣವನ್ನೂ ಬಂಗಾರದ ಒಂದು ಉಂಗುರವನ್ನೂ ಕೊಟ್ಟರು.
12 ಇದಲ್ಲದೆ ಕರ್ತನು ಯೋಬನ ಆರಂಭಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಅವನ ಅಂತ್ಯವನ್ನು ಆಶೀರ್ವದಿಸಿದನು. ಅವನಿಗೆ ಹದಿನಾಲ್ಕು ಸಾವಿರ ಕುರಿಗಳೂ ಆರು ಸಾವಿರ ಒಂಟೆಗಳೂ ಸಾವಿರ ಜೋಡಿ ಎತ್ತುಗಳೂ ಸಾವಿರ ಹೆಣ್ಣು ಕತ್ತೆಗಳೂ ಇದ್ದವು.
13 ಅವನಿಗೆ ಏಳು ಕುಮಾರರೂ ಮೂರು ಕುಮಾರ್ತೆ ಯರೂ ಇದ್ದರು.
14 ಅವನು ಮೊದಲನೆಯವಳಿಗೆ ಯೆವಿಾಮಳೆಂದೂ ಎರಡನೆಯವಳಿಗೆ ಕೆಚೀಯ ಳೆಂದೂ ಮೂರನೆಯವಳಿಗೆ ಕರನ್ಹಪ್ಪ್ಪೂಕೆಂದೂ ಹೆಸ ರಿಟ್ಟನು.
15 ಯೋಬನ ಕುಮಾರ್ತೆಯರ ಹಾಗೆ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವತಿಯರಾದ ಸ್ತ್ರೀಯರು ದೇಶದಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಣಲಿಲ್ಲ; ಅವರ ತಂದೆ ಅವರ ಸಹೋದರರ ಮಧ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಬಾಧ್ಯತೆಯನ್ನು ಕೊಟ್ಟನು.
16 ತರುವಾಯ ಯೋಬನು ನೂರ ನಾಲ್ವತ್ತು ವರುಷ ಬದುಕಿ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನೂ ಮಕ್ಕಳ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನೂ ನಾಲ್ಕನೇ ತಲಾಂತರದ ವರೆಗೆ ನೋಡಿದನು.
17 ಯೋಬನು ಮುದುಕನಾಗಿಯೂ ದಿನ ತುಂಬಿದವನಾಗಿಯೂ ಸತ್ತನು.
1 Then Job answered the Lord, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
7 And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Job.
10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
12 So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4 It may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8 So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.
15 And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
16 Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
17 Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God, even thou only.
20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
21 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
32 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.
34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.