Eyüp 19

¹Eyüp sözü alıp şöyle dedi:

²"Ne zamana dek ruhumu bitkin düşürecek ve beni sözlerle ezeceksiniz? Sadece bilin ki, Rab beni bu hale getirdi.

³Aleyhimde konuşuyor, benden utanmaksızın üzerime çöküyorsunuz.

⁴Gerçekten ben yoldan saptıysam, hatam benimle konaklar; söylenmemesi gereken sözleri söylemek için sözlerim saptı ve zamansızdır.

⁵Bırakın bunları; siz bana karşı kendinizi büyütüyor ve üzerime hakaretle atlıyorsunuz.

⁶Öyleyse bilin ki, beni altüst eden Rab'dir ve bana karşı kendi kuşatma duvarını yükseltmiştir.

⁷İşte, uğradığım hakarete gülüyorum ama konuşmayacağım; feryat edeceğim ama hiçbir yerde adalet yok.

⁸Çepeçevre duvarla örüldüm ve geçemiyorum; yüzümün önüne karanlık koydu.

⁹Görkemimi üzerimden soydu ve tacı başımdan aldı.

¹⁰Beni her yandan yıktı ve yok oldum; umudumu bir ağaç gibi kökünden söktü.

¹¹Bana karşı öfkesini korkunç bir şekilde kullandı ve beni bir düşman gibi saydı.

¹²O'nun sınama orduları hep birlikte üzerime geldi, pusuda bekleyenler yollarımı kuşattı.

¹³Kardeşlerim benden uzaklaştı, beni tanımak yerine yabancı saydılar; dostlarım ise merhametsiz oldular.

¹⁴En yakınlarım beni sahiplenmedi ve adımı bilenler beni unuttu.

¹⁵Evimin komşuları ve hizmetçi kadınlarım için onların gözünde yabancı soydan biri oldum.

¹⁶Hizmetçimi çağırıyorum ama itaat etmiyor; ağzımla ona yalvarmak zorunda kalıyorum.

¹⁷Karıma yalvarıyordum ve cariyelerimin oğullarını dil dökerek çağırıyordum.

¹⁸Onlar ise beni sonsuza dek reddettiler; ne zaman ayağa kalksam bana karşı konuşuyorlar.

¹⁹Beni görenler benden iğrendiler; sevdiklerim ise bana karşı ayaklandılar.

²⁰Derimin içinde etlerim çürüdü, kemiklerim ise dişlerimde tutuluyor.

²¹Acıyın bana, acıyın ey dostlar! Çünkü bana dokunan Rab'bin elidir.

²²Neden beni Rab gibi kovalıyorsunuz ve etlerimle doymuyorsunuz?

²³Keşke sözlerim yazılsa ve bir kitaba sonsuza dek kaydedilseydi!

²⁴Demir bir kalem ve kurşunla ya da kayalara kazınsaydı!

²⁵Çünkü biliyorum ki, beni özgür kılacak olan ebedidir yeryüzünde.

²⁶Ve bunları çeken derimi ayağa kaldıracak; çünkü bunlar bana Rab tarafından tamamlatıldı.

²⁷Ki bunları ben kendimde biliyorum, bunları kendi gözüm gördü, bir başkası değil; her şey bağrımda tamamlanmıştır.

²⁸Ve eğer 'O'nun önünde ne söyleyeceğiz ve davanın kökünü O'nda bulacağız' derseniz,

²⁹Siz de o gazap örtüsünden sakının; çünkü yasa tanımazların üzerine öfke gelecektir ve o zaman onların varlığının nerede olduğunu anlayacaklar."

¹ΥΠΟΛΑΒΩΝ δὲ ᾿Ιὼβ λέγει·

²ἕως τίνος ἔγκοπον ποιήσετε ψυχήν μου καὶ καθαιρεῖτέ με λόγοις; γνῶτε μόνον ὅτι ὁ Κύριος ἐποίησέ με οὕτως·

³καταλαλεῖτέ μου, οὐκ αἰσχυνόμενοί με ἐπίκεισθέ μοι.

⁴ναὶ δὴ ἐπ᾿ ἀληθείας ἐγὼ ἐπλανήθην, παρ᾿ ἐμοὶ δὲ αὐλίζεται πλάνος λαλῆσαι ῥήματα, ἃ οὐκ ἔδει, τὰ δὲ ρήματά μου πλανᾶται καὶ οὐκ ἐπὶ καιροῦ.

⁵ἔα δὲ ὅτι ἐπ᾿ ἐμοὶ μεγαλύνεσθε, ἐνάλλεσθε δέ μοι ὀνείδει.

⁶γνῶτε οὖν ὅτι Κύριός ἐστιν ὁ ταράξας, ὀχύρωμα δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ ὕψωσεν.

⁷ἰδοὺ γελῶ ὀνείδει καὶ οὐ λαλήσω· κεκράξομαι, καὶ οὐδαμοῦ κρίμα.

⁸κύκλῳ περιῳκοδόμημαι, καὶ οὐ μὴ διαβῶ, ἐπὶ πρόσωπόν μου σκότος ἔθετο.

⁹τὴν δὲ δόξαν ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ ἐξέδυσεν, ἀφεῖλε δὲ στέφανον ἀπὸ κεφαλῆς μου.

¹⁰διέσπασέ με κύκλῳ καὶ ᾠχόμην· ἐξέκοψε δὲ ὥσπερ δένδρον τὴν ἐλπίδα μου.

¹¹δεινῶς δέ μοι ὀργῇ ἐχρήσατο, ἡγήσατο δέ με ὥσπερ ἐχθρόν.

¹²ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ ἦλθον τὰ πειρατήρια αὐτοῦ ἐπ᾿ ἐμοί, ταῖς ὁδοῖς μου ἐκύκλωσαν ἐγκάθετοι.

¹³ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ ἀδελφοί μου ἀπέστησαν, ἔγνωσαν ἀλλοτρίους ἢ ἐμέ· φίλοι δέ μου ἀνελεήμονες γεγόνασιν.

¹⁴οὐ προσεποιήσαντό με οἱ ἐγγύτατοί μου, καὶ οἱ εἰδότες μου τὸ ὄνομα ἐπελάθοντό μου.

¹⁵γείτονες οἰκίας θεράπαιναί τέ μου, ἀλλογενὴς ἤμην ἐναντίον αὐτῶν.

¹⁶θεράποντά μου ἐκάλεσα, καὶ οὐχ ὑπήκουσε· στόμα δέ μου ἐδέετο.

¹⁷καὶ ἱκέτευον τὴν γυναῖκά μου, προσεκαλούμην δὲ κολακεύων υἱοὺς παλλακίδων μου·

¹⁸οἱ δὲ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνά με ἀπεποιήσαντο· ὅταν ἀναστῶ, κατ᾿ ἐμοῦ λαλοῦσιν.

¹⁹ἐβδελύξαντό με οἱ ἰδόντες με· οὓς δὴ ἠγαπήκειν, ἐπανέστησάν μοι.

²⁰ἐν δέρματί μου ἐσάπησαν αἱ σάρκες μου, τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ μου ἐν ὀδοῦσιν ἔχεται.

²¹ἐλεήσατέ με, ἐλεήσατέ με, ὦ φίλοι, χεὶρ γὰρ Κυρίου ἡ ἁψαμένη μού ἐστι.

²²διατί με διώκετε ὥσπερ καὶ ὁ Κύριος; ἀπὸ δὲ σαρκῶν μου οὐκ ἐμπίπλασθε;

²³τίς γὰρ ἂν δοίη γραφῆναι τὰ ρήματά μου, τεθῆναι δὲ αὐτὰ ἐν βιβλίῳ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα;

²⁴ἐν γραφείῳ σιδηρῷ καὶ μολίβῳ ἢ ἐν πέτραις ἐγγλυφῆναι;

²⁵οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι ἀένναός ἐστιν ὁ ἐκλύειν με μέλλων ἐπὶ γῆς,

²⁶ἀναστήσει δὲ τὸ δέρμα μου τὸ ἀναντλοῦν ταῦτα· παρὰ γὰρ Κυρίου ταῦτά μοι συνετελέσθη,

²⁷ἃ ἐγὼ ἐμαυτῷ συνεπίσταμαι, ἃ ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἑώρακε καὶ οὐκ ἄλλος, πάντα δέ μοι συντετέλεσθαι ἐν κόλπῳ.

²⁸εἰ δὲ καὶ ἐρεῖτε· τί ἐροῦμεν ἔναντι αὐτοῦ; καὶ ρίζαν λόγου εὑρήσομεν ἐν αὐτῷ·

²⁹εὐλαβήθητε δὴ καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀπὸ ἐπικαλύμματος, θυμὸς γὰρ ἐπ᾿ ἀνόμους ἐπελεύσεται, καὶ τότε γνώσονται ποῦ ἐστιν αὐτῶν ἡ ὕλη.

¹Then Job answered and said,

²How long will ye vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.

³Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.

⁴Yea verily, I have erred in truth, (but the error abides with myself) in having spoken words which it was not right [to speak]; and my words err, and are unreasonable.

⁵But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.

⁶Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled [me], and has raised his bulwark against me.

⁷Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: [or] I will cry out, but [there is] nowhere judgment.

⁸I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.

⁹And he has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head.

¹⁰He has torn me around about, and I am gone: and he has cut off my hope like a tree.

¹¹And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for an enemy.

¹²His troops also came upon me with one accord, liers in wait compassed my ways.

¹³My brethren have stood aloof from me; they have recognized strangers [rather] than me: and my friends have become pitiless.

¹⁴My nearest of kin have not acknowledged me, and they that knew my name, have forgotten me.

¹⁵[As for] my household, and my maid-servants, I was a stranger before them.

¹⁶I called my servant, and he hearkened not; and my mouth intreated [him].

¹⁷And I besought my wife, and earnestly intreated the sons of my concubines.

¹⁸But they rejected me for ever; whenever I rise up, they speak against me.

¹⁹They that saw me abhorred me: the very persons whom I had loved, rose up against me.

²⁰My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in [my] teeth.

²¹Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.

²²Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord [does], and are not satisfied with my flesh?

²³For oh that my words were written, and that they were recorded in a book forever,

²⁴with an iron pen and lead, or graven in the rocks!

²⁵For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me,

²⁶[and] to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these [sufferings]: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;

²⁷which I am conscious of in myself, which mine eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in [my] bosom.

²⁸But if ye shall also say, What shall we say before him, and [so] find the root of the matter in him?

²⁹Do ye also beware of deceit: for wrath will come upon transgressors; and then shall they know where their substance is.