Job 14
1 अय्यूबले भने, “हामी सबै मानिसहरू हौं। हाम्रो आयु छोटो अनि संकटहरूले भरिएको छ।
2 मानिसको जीवन एउटा फूल जस्तो छ। चाँडो उम्रन्छ अनि त्यसपछि झरेर जान्छ। यहाँ मानिसको जीवन एउटा छायाँ जस्तो यहाँ छोटो समयको लागि छ। अनि त्यसपछि यो बिलाएर जान्छ।
3 त्यो सत्य हो, तर परमेश्वरले, म प्रति हेर्नु हुनेछ, एउटा मानिस? अनि तपाईं न्यायलयमा मसँग आउनु हुनेछ अनि हामी दुवैले आफ्ना तर्कहरू प्रस्तुत गर्छौ?
4 “म इच्छा गर्छु कसैले केही मैला चीज लिएर त्यसलाई सफा पारोस। तर कसैले पनि त्यसो गर्न सक्तैन।
5 मानिसको जीवन सीमित छ परमेश्वर तपाईंले निर्णय गर्नुभयो कति लामो मानिस बाँच्छ? तपाईंले ती सीमाहरू एकजना मानिसका निम्ति बनाउँनु भयो अनि कसैले पनि परिवर्तन गर्न सक्दैन।
6 यसैले परमेश्वर, हामीलाई हेर्न छोडिदिनु हवस। हामीलाई एक्लो छोडि दिनुहोस् ताकि हामी हाम्रो मेहनती दिनहरूमा सन्तुष्ट भई बस्न सकौं।
7 त्यहाँ एउटा रूखको आशा छ। यदि यो काटियो भने, त्यो फेरि उम्रनेछ। त्यसमा नयाँ हाँगाहरू पलाउनेछ।
8 यसको जराहरू भूईंमा बुढो भएर उम्रेला अनि यसको ठुटो मैलोमा सडनेछ।
9 तर पानीमा यो फेरि उम्रनेछ। यसले नयाँ उद्भिद् जस्ता हाँगाहरू उमार्नेछ।
10 0तर जब मानिस मर्छ, ऊ लोप हुन्छ। जव मानिस मर्छ, उसको अन्त हुन्छ।
11 नदीहरू सूखा नभइञ्जेलसम्म तिमीहरूले पानी समुद्रबाट लैजान सकौंला, अनि मानिस अझ मृत नै हुनेछ।
12 जब कुनै मानिस मर्छ, उ तल ढल्छ अनि उ उठ्दैन। मृत मानिस उठ्न अघाडी आकाश विलिन हुनेछ। होइन। मानिसहरू त्यो निद्राबाट माथि उठ्दैन।
13 म चाहन्छु तिमीहरूले मलाई मेरो चिहानमा लुकाई राख्नेछौ। मलाई त्यहाँ लुकाई राख भन्ने कामना गर्छु। जबसम्म तिमीहरूका रीस मर्दैन्। तब तिमीहरूले मलाई सम्झने समय निकाल्ने छौ।
14 यदि एकजना मानिस मर्छ, के ऊ फेरि जीउँदो हुन्छ? तबसम्म म पर्खुला जबसम्म म स्वतन्त्र हुन नसकुँला
15 परमेश्वर, तपाईंले मलाई बोलाउनु हुनेछ अनि म तपाईंलाई जवाफ दिनेछु। तब तपाईंले सिर्जना गर्नु भएको मानिसहरूसित बस्न तपाईंले इच्छा गर्नुहुनेछ।
16 तब तपाईंले मेरो प्रत्येक पाइलालाई ध्यान दिनुहुन्छ, तर तपाईंले मेरो पापहरू सम्झनु हुन्न।
17 तपाईंले मेरो पापहरूलाई थैलोमा मोहर लगाएर राख्नु हुनेछ। मेरा अपराधहरू ढाक्नु हुनेछ।
18 पर्वतहरू ढल्छ अनि टुक्रा-टुक्रा भएर जान्छ। विशाल चट्टानहरू फुस्केर टुक्रिए र झर्छन्।
19 पानी ढुङ्गहरूमाथि बहँदा तिनीहरूलाई खियाउँछ बाढीहरूले मैदानको माटो काटिदिन्छ। त्यस्तै प्रकारले, परमेश्वर, तपाईंले मानिसहरूका आशाहरू नष्ट पारिदिनुहुन्छ।
20 तपाईंले तिनीहरूलाई पूर्णरूपले पराजित गरेर मात्र फर्केर जानु हुन्छ। तपाईंले तिनीहरूलाई दुःखी बनाउनु हुन्छ। अनि सदाको लागि टाढा मृतलोकमा पठाइदिनु हुन्छ।
21 यदि उहाँका छोराहरूका सम्मानित, उहाँलाई कहिल्यै थाहा हुँदैन। यदि उहाँका छोराहरूले गल्ती काम गरे भने उहाँले कहिल्यै देख्नुहुन्न।
22 त्यो मानिसले आफ्ना शरीरमा खाली पीडा मात्र अनुभव गर्दछ, अनि उ आफ्नै लागि चिच्याएर रून्छ।”
1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
1 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
3 Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.
4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee.
5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord.
8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you.
9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
10 And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
12 And the Lord said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
13 Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.
17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
18 And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.
20 And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath.
23 Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
24 Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.
25 Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the Lord had said he would destroy you.
26 I prayed therefore unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.