Eyüp 24

¹Peki, zamanlar Rab'den nasıl gizlendi?

²Tanrısızlar ise sınırları aştılar, sürüyü çobanıyla birlikte gasp ettiler.

³Öksüzlerin yük hayvanını sürüp götürdüler, dul kadının öküzünü rehin aldılar.

⁴Güçsüzleri doğruluk yolundan saptırdılar, yeryüzünün mazlumları hep birlikte gizlenmek zorunda kaldı.

⁵Kırlardaki yaban eşekleri gibi kendi düzenlerini takip ederek benim için çıktılar; çocukları için ekmek onlara tatlı geldi.

⁶Kendilerinin olmayan tarlayı vaktinden önce biçtiler; güçsüzler, tanrısızların bağlarında ücretsiz ve aç olarak çalıştılar.

⁷Birçoklarını giysisiz, çıplak yatırdılar; canlarının örtüsünü ellerinden aldılar.

⁸Dağların sağanaklarıyla ıslanıyorlar, sığınakları olmadığı için kayaya sarıldılar.

⁹Öksüzü memeden kopardılar, düşmüş olanı ezdiler.

¹⁰İnsanları haksız yere çıplak yatırdılar, aç olanların elinden bir lokma ekmeği aldılar.

¹¹Dar geçitlerde haksızca pusu kurdular, doğruluk yolunu bilmediler.

¹²Kentten ve kendi evlerinden kovulanlar oldu, çocukların canı büyük bir feryatla inledi.

¹³Peki O, neden bunları denetlemedi? Onlar yeryüzündeyken bunu fark etmediler, doğruluk yolunu bilmediler ve onun patikalarında yürümediler.

¹⁴Onların işlerini bilerek onları karanlığa teslim etti; geceleyin ise insan bir hırsız gibi olur.

¹⁵Zinacının gözü de karanlığı kollar, "Hiçbir göz beni görmez" diyerek yüzünü gizler.

¹⁶Karanlıkta evleri kazıp delerler; gündüzün kendilerini mühürler, ışığı bilmek istemezler.

¹⁷Çünkü sabah vakti, onların hepsi için ölüm gölgesidir; çünkü her biri ölüm gölgesinin dehşetini yakından tanır.

¹⁸Suyun yüzünde hafiftir; yeryüzündeki payları lanetlensin, diktikleri fidanlar kuruyup ortaya çıksın.

¹⁹Yeryüzünde kuruyup gitsinler; çünkü öksüzlerin demetlerini gasp ettiler.

²⁰Sonra günahı hatırlandı ve bir çiy buğusu gibi yok olup gitti; yaptığı kendisine ödensin, her haksız kişi tedavisi olmayan çürük bir odun gibi kırılsın.

²¹Kısır kadına iyilik etmedi, zayıf kadına merhamet göstermedi.

²²Gazabıyla güçsüzleri yok etti; bu yüzden ayağa kalktığında, hiç kimse kendi hayatından emin olamaz.

²³Hastalandığında iyileşmeyi ummasın, ancak hastalıkla kırılıp düşecek.

²⁴Çünkü onun yükselişi birçoklarına zarar verdi; sıcakta ebegümeci gibi soldu ya da sapından kendiliğinden düşen bir başak gibi kurudu.

²⁵Eğer böyle değilse, benim yalan söylediğimi kim iddia edebilir ve sözlerimi hiçe sayabilir?

¹ΔΙΑΤΙ δὲ Κύριον ἔλαθον ὧραι,

²ἀσεβεῖς δὲ ὅριον ὑπερέβησαν ποίμνιον σὺν ποιμένι ἁρπάσαντες;

³ὑποζύγιον ὀρφανῶν ἀπήγαγον καὶ βοῦν χήρας ἠνεχύρασαν.

⁴ἐξέκλιναν ἀδυνάτους ἐξ ὁδοῦ δικαίας, ὁμοθυμαδὸν δὲ ἐκρύβησαν πρᾳεῖς γῆς.

⁵ἀπέβησαν δὲ ὥσπερ ὄνοι ἐν ἀγρῷ ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ ἐξελθόντες τὴν ἑαυτῶν τάξιν· ἡδύνθη αὐτῷ ἄρτος εἰς νεωτέρους.

⁶ἀγρὸν πρὸ ὥρας οὐκ αὐτῶν ὄντα ἐθέρισαν· ἀδύνατοι ἀμπελῶνας ἀσεβῶν ἀμισθὶ καὶ ἀσιτὶ εἰργάσαντο.

⁷γυμνοὺς πολλοὺς ἐκοίμησαν ἄνευ ἱματίων, ἀμφίασιν δὲ ψυχῆς αὐτῶν ἀφείλαντο.

⁸ἀπὸ ψεκάδων ὀρέων ὑγραίνονται, παρὰ τὰ μὴ ἔχειν ἑαυτοὺς σκέπην, πέτραν περιεβάλοντο.

⁹ἥρπασαν ὀρφανὸν ἀπὸ μαστοῦ, ἐκπεπτωκότα δὲ ἐταπείνωσαν.

¹⁰γυμνοὺς δὲ ἐκοίμησαν ἀδίκως, πεινώντων δὲ τὸν ψωμὸν ἀφείλαντο.

¹¹ἐν στενοῖς ἀδίκως ἐνήδρευσαν, ὁδὸν δὲ δικαίαν οὐκ ᾔδεισαν.

¹²οἳ ἐκ πόλεως καὶ οἴκων ἰδίων ἐξεβάλοντο, ψυχὴ δὲ νηπίων ἐστέναξε μέγα.

¹³αὐτὸς δὲ διατί τούτων ἐπισκοπὴν οὐ πεποίηται; ἐπὶ γῆς ὄντων αὐτῶν καὶ οὐκ ἐπέγνωσαν, ὁδὸν δὲ δικαιοσύνης οὐκ ᾔδεισαν, οὐδὲ ἀτραποὺς αὐτῶν ἐπορεύθησαν.

¹⁴γνοὺς δὲ αὐτῶν τὰ ἔργα παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς εἰς σκότος, καὶ νυκτὸς ἔσται ὡς κλέπτης.

¹⁵καὶ ὀφθαλμὸς μοιχοῦ ἐφύλαξε σκότος λέγων· οὐ προνοήσει με ὀφθαλμός, καὶ ἀποκρυβὴν προσώπου ἔθετο.

¹⁶διώρυξεν ἐν σκότει οἰκίας· ἡμέρας ἐσφράγισαν ἑαυτούς, οὐκ ἐπέγνωσαν φῶς.

¹⁷ὅτι ὁμοθυμαδὸν αὐτοῖς τὸ πρωΐ σκιὰ θανάτου, ὅτι ἐπιγνώσεται τάραχος σκιᾶς θανάτου.

¹⁸ἐλαφρός ἐστιν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ὕδατος, καταραθείη ἡ μερὶς αὐτῶν ἐπὶ γῆς, ἀναφανείη δὲ τὰ φυτὰ αὐτῶν

¹⁹ἐπὶ γῆς ξηρά· ἀγκαλίδα γὰρ ὀρφανῶν ἥρπασαν.

²⁰εἶτ᾿ ἀνεμνήσθη αὐτοῦ ἡ ἁμαρτία, ὥσπερ δὲ ὁμίχλη δρόσου ἀφανὴς ἐγένετο· ἀποδοθείη δὲ αὐτῷ ἃ ἔπραξε, συντριβείη δὲ πᾶς ἄδικος ἴσα ξύλῳ ἀνιάτῳ.

²¹στεῖραν δὲ οὐκ εὖ ἐποίησε καὶ γύναιον οὐκ ἠλέησε,

²²θυμῷ δὲ κατέστρεψεν ἀδυνάτους. ἀναστὰς τοιγαροῦν οὐ μὴ πιστεύσῃ κατὰ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ζωῆς.

²³μαλακισθεὶς μὴ ἐλπιζέτω ὑγιασθῆναι, ἀλλὰ πεσεῖται νόσῳ·

²⁴πολλοὺς γὰρ ἐκάκωσε τὸ ὕψωμα αὐτοῦ, ἐμαράνθη δὲ ὥσπερ μολόχη ἐν καύματι ἢ ὥσπερ στάχυς ἀπὸ καλάμης αὐτόματος ἀποπεσών.

²⁵εἰ δὲ μή, τίς ἐστιν ὁ φάμενος ψευδῆ με λέγειν καὶ θήσει εἰς οὐδὲν τὰ ῥήματά μου;

¹But why have the seasons been hidden from the Lord,

²while the ungodly have passed over the bound, carrying off the flock with the shepherd?

³They have led away, the ass of the fatherless, and taken the widow’s ox for a pledge.

⁴They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.

⁵And they have departed like asses in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order: his bread is sweet to [his] little ones.

⁶They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: the poor have laboured in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.

⁷They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body.

⁸They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.

⁹They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.

¹⁰And they have wrongfully caused [others] to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the hungry.

¹¹They have unrighteously laid wait in narrow places, and have not known the righteous way.

¹²Who have cast forth [the] poor from the city and their own houses, and the soul of the children has groaned aloud.

¹³Why then has he not visited these? forasmuch as they were upon the earth, and took no notice, and they knew not the way of righteousness, neither have they walked in their [appointed] paths?

¹⁴But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness: and in the night one will be as a thief:

¹⁵and the eye of the adulterer has watched [for] the darkness, saying, Eye shall not perceive me, and he puts a covering on his face.

¹⁶In darkness he digs through houses: by day they conceal themselves securely: they know not the light.

¹⁷For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death, for [each] will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.

¹⁸He is swift on the face of the water: let his portion be cursed on the earth; and let their plants be laid bare.

¹⁹[Let them be] withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.

²⁰Then is his sin brought to remembrance, and he vanishes like a vapour of dew: but let what he has done be recompensed to him, and let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.

²¹For he has not treated the barren woman well, and has had no pity on a feeble woman.

²²And in wrath he has overthrown the helpless: therefore when he has arisen, [a man] will not feel secure of his own life.

²³When he has fallen sick, let him not hope to recover: but let him perish by disease.

²⁴For his exaltation has hurt many; but he has withered as mallows in the heat, or as an ear of corn falling off of itself from the stalk.

²⁵But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely, and will make my words of no account?