Eyüp 21

¹Ve Eyüp sözü alıp şöyle dedi:

²Sözlerimi dikkatle dinleyin ki sizden bana gelen bu teselli boş bir çaba olmasın.

³Bana katlanın, ben de konuşayım; ondan sonra benimle alay edebilirsiniz.

⁴Benim sorgulamam insana karşı mıdır? Öyleyse neden öfkelenmeyeyim?

⁵Bana bakıp şaşırın ve elinizi çenenizin üzerine koyun.

⁶Çünkü ne zaman hatırlasam telaşa kapılırım ve acılar bedenimi sarar.

⁷Neden kötüler yaşıyor, zenginlik içinde ömür sürüp giderek güçleniyorlar?

⁸Soyları arzularına göre ürer, çocukları gözlerinin önündedir.

⁹Evleri bolluk içindedir, hiçbir yerde korku yoktur; Rab'bin kırbacı üzerlerinde değildir.

¹⁰İnekleri vaktinden önce doğurmaz, gebe olanları korunur ve düşük yapmaz.

¹¹Ebedi sürüler gibi kalırlar, çocukları oynaşır durur.

¹²Kanun ve lir alıp ezgi sesiyle coşarlar.

¹³Ömürlerini bolluk içinde tamamlar, Hades'in huzurunda sessizce uykuya dalarlar.

¹⁴Rab'be, "Benden uzak dur!" derler, "Yollarını öğrenmek istemiyorum."

¹⁵Her Şeye Gücü Yeten kimdir ki O'na kulluk edelim? O'na yönelirsek ne kazancımız olur?

¹⁶Çünkü iyilikleri kendi ellerindeydi; ama O, kötülerin işlerini gözetlemez.

¹⁷Yine de kötülerin kandili sönecek, yıkım gelecek üzerlerine; O'nun öfkesinden doğan acılar saracak onları.

¹⁸Rüzgarın önündeki saman çöpü gibi, kasırganın alıp götürdüğü toz gibi olacaklar.

¹⁹Varlığı çocukları için tükensin; Tanrı ona karşılığını versin de bilsin.

²⁰Kendi gözleriyle görsün katledilişini, Rab tarafından kurtarılmasın.

²¹Çünkü arzusu kendisiyle birlikte evindedir ve aylarının sayısı sınırlandırılmıştır.

²²Anlayışı ve bilgiyi öğreten Rab değil midir? Cinayetleri yargılayacak olan O değil midir?

²³Kimi bütünüyle rahat ve bolluk içindeyken, kendi dürüstlüğünün gücüyle ölür.

²⁴İç organları yağ doludur, kemiklerinin iliği taptazedir.

²⁵Öbürü ise hiç iyilik yüzü görmeden, canının acısıyla ölür.

²⁶Toprakta birlikte yatarlar, üzerlerini çürüme kaplar.

²⁷İşte, bana karşı küstahça saldırdığınızı biliyorum.

²⁸Çünkü, "Önderin evi nerede?" diyeceksiniz, "Kötülerin çadırlarının barınağı nerede?"

²⁹Yoldan geçenlere sormadınız mı? Onların işaretlerini yadsıyamazsınız.

³⁰Kötü kişi yıkım günü için esirgenir, öfke gününde götürülürler.

³¹Yaptıklarını kim onun yüzüne vurabilir? Kendi yaptıklarının karşılığını ona kim ödeyebilir?

³²Mezara götürülür ve mezar yığınının üzerinde uyanık kalır.

³³Sel yatağının çakıl taşları ona tatlı gelir; herkes onun ardınca gider, önünden gidenler ise sayısızdır.

³⁴Bana nasıl boş yere teselli verirsiniz? Sizden huzur bulmam tamamen imkansızdır.

¹ΥΠΟΛΑΒΩΝ δὲ ᾿Ιὼβ λέγει·

²ἀκούσατε ἀκούσατέ μου τῶν λόγων, ἵνα μὴ ᾖ μοι παρ᾿ ὑμῶν αὕτη ἡ παράκλησις.

³ἄρατέ με, ἐγὼ δὲ λαλήσω, εἶτ᾿ οὐ καταγελάσετέ μου.

⁴τί γάρ; μὴ ἀνθρώπου μου ἡ ἔλεγξις; ἢ διατί οὐ θυμωθήσομαι;

⁵εἰσβλέψαντες εἰς ἐμὲ θαυμάσετε χεῖρα θέντες ἐπὶ σιαγόνι·

⁶ἐάν τε γὰρ μνησθῶ, ἐσπούδακα, ἔχουσι δέ μου τὰς σάρκας ὀδύναι.

⁷διατὶ ἀσεβεῖς ζῶσι, πεπαλαίωνται δὲ καὶ ἐν πλούτῳ;

⁸ὁ σπόρος αὐτῶν κατὰ ψυχήν, τὰ δὲ τέκνα αὐτῶν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς.

⁹οἱ οἶκοι αὐτῶν εὐθηνοῦσι, φόβος δὲ οὐδαμοῦ, μάστιξ δὲ παρὰ Κυρίου οὐκ ἔστιν ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῖς.

¹⁰ἡ βοῦς αὐτῶν οὐκ ὠμοτόκησε, διεσώθη δὲ αὐτῶν ἐν γαστρὶ ἔχουσα καὶ οὐκ ἔσφαλε.

¹¹μένουσε δὲ ὡς πρόβατα αἰώνια, τὰ δὲ παιδία αὐτῶν προσπαίζουσιν

¹²ἀναλαβόντες ψαλτήριον καὶ κιθάραν καὶ εὐφραίνονται φωνῇ ψαλμοῦ.

¹³συνετέλεσαν δὲ ἐν ἀγαθοῖς τὸν βίον αὐτῶν, ἐν δὲ ἀναπαύσει ᾅδου ἐκοιμήθησαν.

¹⁴λέγει δὲ Κυρίῳ· ἀπόστα ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ, ὁδούς σου εἰδέναι οὐ βούλομαι·

¹⁵τί ἱκανός, ὅτι δουλεύσομεν αὐτῷ; καὶ τίς ὠφέλεια, ὅτι ἀπαντήσομεν αὐτῷ;

¹⁶ἐν χερσὶ γὰρ ἦν αὐτῶν τὰ ἀγαθά, ἔργα δὲ ἀσεβῶν οὐκ ἐφορᾷ.

¹⁷οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀσεβῶν λύχνος σβεσθήσεται, ἐπελεύσεται δὲ αὐτοῖς ἡ καταστροφή, ὠδῖνες δὲ αὐτοὺς ἕξουσιν ἀπὸ ὀργῆς.

¹⁸ἔσονται δὲ ὥσπερ ἄχυρα ὑπ᾿ ἀνέμου ἢ ὥσπερ κονιορτός, ὃν ὑφείλετο λαῖλαψ.

¹⁹ἐκλίποι υἱοὺς τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτοῦ, ἀνταποδώσει πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ γνώσεται.

²⁰ἴδοισαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σφαγήν, ἀπὸ δὲ Κυρίου μὴ διασωθείη·

²¹ὅτι τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ ἐν οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀριθμοὶ μηνῶν αὐτοῦ διῃρέθησαν.

²²πότερον οὐχὶ ὁ Κύριός ἐστιν ὁ διδάσκων σύνεσιν καὶ ἐπιστήμην; αὐτὸς δὲ φόνους διακρινεῖ;

²³οὗτος ἀποθανεῖται ἐν κράτει ἁπλοσύνης αὐτοῦ, ὅλος δὲ εὐπαθῶν καὶ εὐθηνῶν·

²⁴τὰ δὲ ἔγκατα αὐτοῦ πλήρη στέατος, μυελὸς δὲ αὐτοῦ διαχεῖται.

²⁵ὁ δὲ τελευτᾷ ὑπὸ πικρίας ψυχῆς, οὐ φαγὼν οὐδὲν ἀγαθόν.

²⁶ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ ἐπὶ γῆς κοιμῶνται, σαπρία δὲ αὐτοὺς ἐκάλυψεν.

²⁷ὥστε οἶδα ὑμᾶς ὅτι τόλμῃ ἐπίκεισθέ μοι·

²⁸ὥστε ἐρεῖτε· ποῦ ἐστιν οἶκος ἄρχοντος; καὶ ποῦ ἐστιν ἡ σκέπη τῶν σκηνωμάτων τῶν ἀσεβῶν;

²⁹ἐρωτήσατε παραπορευομένους ὁδόν, καὶ τὰ σημεῖα αὐτῶν οὐκ ἀπαλλοτριώσετε·

³⁰ὅτι εἰς ἡμέραν ἀπωλείας κουφίζεται ὁ πονηρός, εἰς ἡμέραν ὀργῆς αὐτοῦ ἀπαχθήσονται.

³¹τίς ἀπαγγελεῖ ἐπὶ προσώπου αὐτοῦ τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ; καὶ αὐτὸς ἐποίησε, τίς ἀνταποδώσει αὐτῷ;

³²καὶ αὐτὸς εἰς τάφους ἀπηνέχθη καὶ ἐπὶ σωρῶν ἠγρύπνησεν.

³³ἐγλυκάνθησαν αὐτῷ χάλικες χειμάρρου, καὶ ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ἀπελεύσεται, καὶ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ ἀναρίθμητοι.

³⁴πῶς δὲ παρακαλεῖτέ με κενά; τὸ δὲ ἐμὲ καταπαύσασθαι ἀφ᾿ ὑμῶν οὐδέν.

¹But Job answered and said,

²Hear ye, hear ye my words, that I may not have this consolation from you.

³Raise me, and I will speak; then ye shall not laugh me to scorn.

⁴What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry?

⁵Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.

⁶For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.

⁷Wherefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?

⁸Their seed is according to [their] desire, and their children are in [their] sight.

⁹Their houses are prosperous, neither [have they] any where [cause for] fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.

¹⁰Their cow does not cast her calf, and their [beast] with young is safe, and does not miscarry.

¹¹And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before [them], taking up the psaltery and harp;

¹²and they rejoice at the voice of a song.

¹³And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.

¹⁴Yet [such a man] says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways.

¹⁵What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?

¹⁶For their good things were in [their] hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly.

¹⁷Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.

¹⁸And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.

¹⁹Let his substance fail [to supply] his children: [God] shall recompense him, and he shall know it.

²⁰Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.

²¹For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.

²²Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders?

²³One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;

²⁴and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused [throughout him].

²⁵And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing.

²⁶But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them.

²⁷So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack me:

²⁸so that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?

²⁹Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens.

³⁰For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.

³¹Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done [it]? who shall recompense him?

³²And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps.

³³The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and [there are] innumerable [ones] before him.

³⁴How then do ye comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.