Eyüp 16

¹Eyüp ise sözü alıp şöyle der:

²Buna benzer pek çok şey duydum; hepiniz dert veren teselli edicilersiniz.

³Ne yani? Rüzgarın sözlerinde bir düzen mi var? Yoksa seni rahatsız eden nedir ki böyle cevap veriyorsun?

⁴Eğer sizin canınız benim canımın yerinde olsaydı, ben de sizin gibi konuşabilirdim; ardından sözlerle üzerinize saldırır, size karşı başımı sallardım.

⁵Ağzımda bir güç olsaydı, dudaklarımı kıpırdatmaktan ve konuşmaktan kaçınmazdım.

⁶Çünkü konuşsam bile yaramın acısını çekmeyeceğim; sussam bile ne kadar daha az yaralanmış olacağım?

⁷Ama şimdi O beni tamamen bitkin düşürdü; beni akılsız ve çürümüş birine çevirdi.

⁸Ve beni yakaladın, bu bana karşı bir tanıklık oldu; yalanım içimde ayağa kalktı ve yüzüme karşı tanıklık etti.

⁹Öfkesini üzerimde kullanarak beni yere serdi, bana diş biledi; haydutlarının okları üzerime düştü.

¹⁰Gözlerinin keskin bakışlarıyla üzerime atıldı, keskin bir silahla dizlerime vurdu; hep birlikte üzerime saldırdılar.

¹¹Çünkü Rab beni adaletsizlerin eline teslim etti ve beni tanrısızların üzerine fırlattı.

¹²Ben huzur içindeyken beni darmadağın etti; saçımdan yakalayıp yoldu ve beni kendine hedef yaptı.

¹³Mızraklarıyla çevremi sardılar, böbreklerime nişan aldılar; hiç acımadan saframı yere akıttılar.

¹⁴Beni ceset üzerine ceset yığarak yere serdiler; güçlüler üzerime doğru koştular.

¹⁵Derimin üzerine çul diktiler ve gücüm toprakta söndürüldü.

¹⁶Karnım ağlamaktan tamamen kavruldu, göz kapaklarımın üzerinde ise bir gölge var.

¹⁷Oysa ellerimde hiçbir haksızlık yoktu ve duam tertemizdi.

¹⁸Ey toprak, bedenimin kanını örtme ve feryadım için gizlenecek hiçbir yer kalmasın.

¹⁹Ve şimdi bile, işte tanığım göklerdedir; beni bilen Yücelerdedir.

²⁰Yakarışım Rab'be ulaşsın, O'nun huzurunda gözlerim yaş döksün.

²¹Keşke Rab'bin huzurunda bir insan için bir savunma olsaydı; bir insanoğlunun komşusuyla olan davası gibi!

²²Çünkü sayılı yıllarım geldi; geri dönüşü olmayan o yola koyulacağım.

¹ΥΠΟΛΑΒΩΝ δὲ ᾿Ιὼβ λέγει·

²ἀκήκοα τοιαῦτα πολλά, παρακλήτορες κακῶν πάντες.

³τί γάρ; μὴ τάξις ἐστὶ ῥήμασι πνεύματος; ἢ τί παρενοχλήσει σοι, ὅτι ἀποκρίνῃ;

⁴κἀγὼ καθ᾿ ὑμᾶς λαλήσω, εἰ ὑπέκειτό γε ἡ ψυχὴ ὑμῶν ἀντὶ τῆς ἐμῆς· εἶτ᾿ ἐναλοῦμαι ὑμῖν ρήμασι, κινήσω δὲ καθ᾿ ὑμῶν κεφαλήν·

⁵εἴη δὲ ἰσχὺς ἐν τῷ στόματί μου, κίνησιν δὲ χειλέων οὐ φείσομαι.

⁶ἐὰν γὰρ λαλήσω, οὐκ ἀλγήσω τὸ τραῦμα· ἐὰν δὲ καὶ σιωπήσω, τί ἔλαττον τρωθήσομαι;

⁷νῦν δὲ κατάκοπόν με πεποίηκε, μωρόν, σεσηπότα,

⁸καὶ ἐπελάβου μου, εἰς μαρτύριον ἐγενήθη· καὶ ἀνέστη ἐν ἐμοὶ τὸ ψεῦδός μου, κατὰ πρόσωπόν μου ἀνταπεκρίθη.

⁹ὀργῇ χρησάμενος κατέβαλέ με, ἔβρυξεν ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ τοὺς ὀδόντας, βέλη πειρατῶν αὐτοῦ ἐπ᾿ ἐμοὶ ἔπεσεν.

¹⁰ἀκίσιν ὀφθαλμῶν ἐνήλατο, ὀξεῖ ἔπαισέ με εἰς τὰ γόνατα, ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ κατέδραμον ἐπ᾿ ἐμοί·

¹¹παρέδωκε γάρ με ὁ Κύριος εἰς χεῖρας ἀδίκων, ἐπὶ δὲ ἀσεβέσιν ἔρριψέ με.

¹²εἰρηνεύοντα διεσκέδασέ με, λαβών με τῆς κόμης διέτιλε, κατέστησέ με ὥσπερ σκοπόν.

¹³ἐκύκλωσάν με λόγχαις βάλλοντες εἰς νεφρούς μου, οὐ φειδόμενοι ἐξέχεαν εἰς τὴν γῆν τὴν χολήν μου·

¹⁴κατέβαλόν με πτῶμα ἐπὶ πτώματι, ἔδραμον πρός με δυνάμενοι.

¹⁵σάκκον ἔρραψαν ἐπὶ βύρσης μου, τὸ δὲ σθένος μου ἐν γῇ ἐσβέσθη.

¹⁶ἡ γαστήρ μου συγκέκαυται ἀπὸ κλαυθμοῦ, ἐπὶ δὲ βλεφάροις μου σκιά.

¹⁷ἄδικον δὲ οὐδὲν ἦν ἐν χερσί μου, εὐχὴ δέ μου καθαρά.

¹⁸γῆ, μὴ ἐπικαλύψῃ ἐφ᾿ αἵματι τῆς σαρκός μου, μηδὲ εἴη τόπος τῇ κραυγῇ μου.

¹⁹καὶ νῦν ἰδοὺ ἐν οὐρανοῖς ὁ μάρτυς μου, ὁ δὲ συνίστωρ μου ἐν ὑψίστοις.

²⁰ἀφίκοιτό μου ἡ δέησις πρὸς Κύριον, ἔναντι δὲ αὐτοῦ στάζοι μου ὁ ὀφθαλμός.

²¹εἴη δὲ ἔλεγχος ἀνδρὶ ἔναντι Κυρίου καὶ υἱῷ ἀνθρώπου τῷ πλησίον αὐτοῦ.

²²ἔτη δὲ ἀριθμητὰ ἥκασιν, ὁδῷ δέ, ᾖ οὐκ ἐπαναστραφήσομαι, πορεύσομαι.

¹But Job answered and said,

²I have heard many such things: poor comforters are ye all.

³What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder thee from answering?

⁴I also will speak as ye [do]: if indeed your soul were in my [soul’s] stead, then would I insult you with words, and I would shake my head at you.

⁵And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.

⁶For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less?

⁷But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool;

⁸and thou hast laid hold of me. My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.

⁹In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.

¹⁰He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp [spear] he has smitten me [down] upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord.

¹¹For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.

¹²When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.

¹³They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing [me] they poured out my gall upon the ground.

¹⁴They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in [their] might.

¹⁵They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.

¹⁶My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.

¹⁷Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

¹⁸Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place.

¹⁹And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

²⁰Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.

²¹Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even [as] the son of man with his neighbor!

²²But my years are numbered and [their end] come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.