Eyüp 40

¹Ve Rab Tanrı Eyüp'e yanıt verip dedi:

²"Muktedir olanla davasını saptıracak mı insan? Tanrı'yı suçlayan kişi buna yanıt versin."

³Bunun üzerine Eyüp sözü alıp Rab'be dedi ki:

⁴"Ben ki hiçbir şey olmadığım halde, nasihat edilerek ve Rab'bi azarlayarak böyle şeyler işitirken neden hala yargılanıyorum? Ben buna nasıl bir yanıt vereyim? Elimi ağzımın üzerine koyacağım.

⁵Bir kez konuştum, ama ikincisinde artık hiçbir şey eklemeyeceğim."

⁶Rab yine sözü alıp bulutun içinden Eyüp'e dedi:

⁷"Hayır, şimdi bir adam gibi belini kuşan; ben sana soracağım, sen de bana yanıt ver.

⁸Benim yargımı reddetme; benim seninle başka bir amaçla konuştuğumu mu sanıyorsun, yoksa sadece senin haklı çıkman için mi?

⁹Yoksa sende Rab'binki gibi bir pazı mı var, ya da O'nun gibi gürleyen bir sesle gürleyebilir misin?

¹⁰Haydi şimdi yücelik ve güç kuşan; görkem ve onur giyin.

¹¹Öfkeyle melekler gönder ve her kibirliyi alçalt.

¹²Gururluyu söndür ve kötüleri oldukları yerde hemen çürüt.

¹³Hepsini birlikte toprağa göm, yüzlerini utançla doldur.

¹⁴O zaman ben de kabul ederim ki, sağ elin seni kurtarmaya muktedirdir.

¹⁵Ama şimdi senin yanındaki vahşi hayvanlara bak; onlar da sığırlar gibi ot yerler.

¹⁶Bak şimdi, onun gücü belindedir, kuvveti ise karnının göbeğindedir.

¹⁷Kuyruğunu bir selvi gibi diker, sinirleri ise birbirine örülmüştür.

¹⁸Kaburgaları tunçtan kaburgalar gibidir, omurgası dökme demir gibidir.

¹⁹Bu, Rab'bin yaratışının başlangıcıdır; O'nun melekleri tarafından alay edilmek üzere yapılmıştır.

²⁰Sarp bir dağa çıktığında, tartarustaki dört ayaklı hayvanlara neşe yaratır.

²¹Her türlü ağacın altında, papirüsün, kamışın ve sazın yanında uyur.

²²Büyük ağaçlar sürgünleriyle birlikte onun altında gölgelenir, kırın dalları onu örter.

²³Bir sel olsa bile o bunu hissetmez; Şeria Irmağı ağzına çarpsa da o güvenir.

²⁴Onu gözünün önünde yakalayacak, hileyle burnunu delecek biri var mı?

²⁵Ejderhayı oltayla çekebilir misin, ya da burnunun etrafına bir yular geçirebilir misin?

²⁶Burun deliğine bir halka bağlayabilir misin, ya da bir halkayla dudağını delebilir misin?

²⁷Sana yalvarıp yakararak, yumuşak ve tatlı sözlerle mi konuşacak?

²⁸Seninle bir antlaşma yapacak mı, onu ebedi bir köle olarak alacak mısın?

²⁹Bir kuşla oynar gibi onunla oynayabilir misin, ya da bir çocuk için onu bağlayabilir misin?

³⁰Uluslar ondan beslenir mi, Fenikelilerin ulusları onu aralarında paylaşır mı?

³¹Bir araya gelen tüm gemiler onun kuyruğunun tek bir derisini taşıyamaz, balıkçı tekneleri de başını kaldıramaz.

³²Elini onun üzerine koy da, onun bedeninde gerçekleşen savaşı hatırla ve bir daha buna yeltenme."

¹ΚΑΙ ἀπεκρίθη Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς τῷ ᾿Ιὼβ καὶ εἶπε·

²μὴ κρίσιν μετὰ ἱκανοῦ ἐκκλινεῖ, ἐλέγχων δὲ Θεὸν ἀποκριθήσεται αὐτήν;

³ὑπολαβὼν δὲ ᾿Ιὼβ λέγει τῷ Κυρίῳ·

⁴τί ἔτι ἐγὼ κρίνομαι, νουθετούμενος καὶ ἐλέγχων Κύριον, ἀκούων τοιαῦτα οὐθὲν ὤν; ἐγὼ δὲ τίνα ἀπόκρισιν δῶ πρὸς ταῦτα; χεῖρα θήσω ἐπὶ στόματί μου·

⁵ἅπαξ λελάληκα, ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ οὐ προσθήσω.

⁶ἔτι δὲ ὑπολαβὼν ὁ Κύριος εἶπε τῷ ᾿Ιὼβ ἐκ τοῦ νέφους·

⁷μή, ἀλλὰ ζῶσαι ὥσπερ ἀνὴρ τὴν ὀσφύν σου, ἐρωτήσω δέ σε, σὺ δέ μοι ἀπόκριναι·

⁸μὴ ἀποποιοῦ μου τὸ κρίμα. οἴει δέ με ἄλλως σοι κεχρηματικέναι ἢ ἵνα ἀναφανῇς δίκαιος;

⁹ἦ βραχίων σοί ἐστι κατὰ τοῦ Κυρίου, ἢ φωνῇ κατ᾿ αὐτὸν βροντᾷς;

¹⁰ἀνάλαβε δὴ ὕψος καὶ δύναμιν, δόξαν δὲ καὶ τιμὴν ἀμφίασαι.

¹¹ἀπόστειλον δὲ ἀγγέλους ὀργῇ, πάντα δὲ ὑβριστὴν ταπείνωσον·

¹²ὑπερήφανον δὲ σβέσον, σῆψον δὲ ἀσεβεῖς παραχρῆμα,

¹³κρύψον δὲ εἰς γῆν ὁμοθυμαδόν, τὰ δὲ πρόσωπα αὐτῶν ἀτιμίας ἔμπλησον·

¹⁴ὁμολογήσω ὅτι δύναται ἡ δεξιά σου σῶσαι.

¹⁵ἀλλὰ δὴ ἰδοὺ θηρία παρά σοι, χόρτον ἴσα βουσὶν ἐσθίουσιν.

¹⁶ἰδοὺ δὴ ἡ ἰσχὺς αὐτοῦ ἐπ᾿ ὀσφύϊ, ἡ δὲ δύναμις αὐτοῦ ἐπ᾿ ὀμφαλοῦ γαστρός·

¹⁷ἔστησεν οὐρὰν ὡς κυπάρισσον, τὰ δὲ νεῦρα αὐτοῦ συμπέπλεκται·

¹⁸αἱ πλευραὶ αὐτοῦ πλευραὶ χάλκειαι, ἡ δὲ ῥάχις αὐτοῦ σίδηρος χυτός.

¹⁹τοῦτ᾿ ἔστιν ἀρχὴ πλάσματος Κυρίου, πεποιημένον ἐγκαταπαίζεσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν ἀγγέλων αὐτοῦ.

²⁰ἐπελθὼν δὲ ἐπ᾿ ὄρος ἀκρότομον ἐποίησε χαρμονὴν τετράποσιν ἐν τῷ ταρτάρῳ.

²¹ὑπὸ παντοδαπὰ δένδρα κοιμᾶται, παρὰ πάπυρον καὶ κάλαμον καὶ βούτομον.

²²σκιάζονται δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ δένδρα μεγάλα σὺν ραδάμνοις καὶ κλῶνες ἀγροῦ.

²³ἐὰν γένηται πλήμμυρα, οὐ μὴ αἰσθηθῇ· πέποιθεν ὅτι προσκρούσει ὁ ᾿Ιορδάνης εἰς τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ.

²⁴ἐν τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ αὐτοῦ δέξεται αὐτόν, ἐνσκολιευόμενος τρήσει ρῖνα.

²⁵ἄξεις δὲ δράκοντα ἐν ἀγκίστρῳ, περιθήσεις δὲ φορβαίαν περὶ ρῖνα αὐτοῦ;

²⁶εἰ δήσεις κρίκον ἐν τῷ μυκτῆρι αὐτοῦ, ψελλίῳ δὲ τρυπήσεις τὸ χεῖλος αὐτοῦ;

²⁷λαλήσει δέ σοι δεήσει, ἱκετηρίᾳ μαλακῶς;

²⁸θήσεται δὲ μετὰ σοῦ διαθήκην; λήψῃ δὲ αὐτὸν δοῦλον αἰώνιον;

²⁹παίξῃ δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ ὥσπερ ὀρνέῳ ἢ δήσεις αὐτὸν ὥσπερ στρουθίον παιδίῳ;

³⁰ἐνσιτοῦνται δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ ἔθνη, μεριτεύονται δὲ αὐτὸν Φοινίκων ἔθνη;

³¹πᾶν δὲ πλωτὸν συνελθὸν οὐ μὴ ἐνέγκωσι βύρσαν μίαν οὐρᾶς αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν πλοίοις ἁλιέων κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ.

³²ἐπιθήσεις δὲ αὐτῷ χεῖρα μνησθεὶς πόλεμον τὸν γινόμενον ἐν σώματι αὐτοῦ, καὶ μηκέτι γινέσθω.

¹And the Lord God answered Job, and said,

²Will [any one] pervert judgment with the Mighty One? and he that reproves God, let him return it for answer.

³And Job answered and said to the Lord,

⁴Why do I yet plead? being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these [arguments]? I will lay my hand upon my mouth.

⁵I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.

⁶And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, [saying],

⁷Nay, gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will ask thee, and do thou answer me.

⁸Do not set aside my judgment: and dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous?

⁹Hast thou an arm like the Lord’s? or dost thou thunder with a voice like his?

¹⁰Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe thyself with glory and honour.

¹¹And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.

¹²Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly.

¹³And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame.

¹⁴[Then] will I confess that thy right hand can save [thee].

¹⁵But now look at the wild beasts with thee; they eat grass like oxen.

¹⁶Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

¹⁷He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together.

¹⁸His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is [as] cast iron.

¹⁹This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels.

²⁰And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.

²¹He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush.

²²And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and [so do] the bushes of the field.

²³If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trusts that Jordan will rush up into his mouth.

²⁴[Yet one] shall take him in his sight; [one] shall catch [him] with a cord, and pierce his nose.

²⁵But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?

²⁶Or wilt thou fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?

²⁷Will he address thee with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant?

²⁸And will he make a covenant with thee? and wilt thou take him for a perpetual servant?

²⁹And wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child?

³⁰And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him?

³¹And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail; neither [shall they carry] his head in fishing-vessels.

³²But thou shalt lay thy hand upon him [once], remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; and let it not be done any more.