Eyüp 41

¹Onu görmedin mi ve onun hakkında söylenenlere şaşırıp kalmadın mı?

²Benim için hazırlanmış olmasından korkmuyor musun? Öyleyse bana karşı durabilecek kim var?

³Ya da bana karşı durup da dayanabilecek kim var, göklerin altındaki her şey benimken?

⁴Onun yüzünden susmayacağım; o, gücün sözüne, kendisine denk olana merhamet mi edecek?

⁵Onun örtüsünün önünü kim açabilir ve zırhının katları arasına kim girebilir?

⁶Yüzünün kapılarını kim açabilir? Dişlerinin çevresi dehşet doludur.

⁷İç organları tunçtan kalkanlar gibidir, dokusu ise zımpara taşı gibi serttir.

⁸Onlar birbirine öyle kenetlenmiştir ki, aralarından rüzgâr bile geçemez.

⁹Her biri diğerine yapışmıştır, birbirlerine tutunmuşlardır ve asla ayrılamazlar.

¹⁰Aksırması ışık saçar, gözleri ise şafak yıldızının görünümü gibidir.

¹¹Ağzından yanmakta olan meşaleler çıkar, ateş ocakları gibi saçılır.

¹²Burun deliklerinden duman fışkırır, kömür ateşiyle yanan bir fırın gibi.

¹³Soluğu kömürleri tutuşturur, ağzından alevler yükselir.

¹⁴Boynunda güç barınır, önünde ise yıkım koşar.

¹⁵Bedeninin etleri birbirine yapışmıştır; üzerine dökülen maden gibi sarsılmaz durur.

¹⁶Yüreği taş gibi sertleşmiştir, dövülmemiş bir örs gibi sapasağlam durur.

¹⁷O döndüğü zaman, yeryüzünde sıçrayan dört ayaklı yaban hayvanlarını korku sarar.

¹⁸Ona mızraklar doğrultulsa bile hiçbir şey yapamaz; ne kargı ne de zırh kâr eder.

¹⁹Çünkü o demiri saman, tuncu ise çürük odun sayar.

²⁰Tunç yay onu yaralayamaz, sapan taşlarını ot yerine koyar.

²¹Topuzlar onun gözünde saman çöpü gibidir, ateş saçan sarsıntıyla alay eder.

²²Yatağı sivri kazıklar gibidir; denizin altındaki tüm altınlar onun altında sayısız çamur gibidir.

²³Derinliği tunç bir kazan gibi kaynatır, denizi merhem kabı gibi görür.

²⁴Dipsiz derinliğin Tartaros'unu bir tutsak gibi görür; derinliği kendi gezinti yeri sayar.

²⁵Yeryüzünde onun bir benzeri yoktur; meleklerim tarafından kendisiyle eğlenilsin diye yaratılmıştır.

²⁶Yüksek olan her şeye tepeden bakar; o, sulardaki tüm canlıların kralıdır.

¹ΟΥΧ ἑώρακας αὐτόν, οὐδὲ ἐπὶ τοῖς λεγομένοις τεθαύμακας;

²οὐ δέδοικας ὅτι ἡτοίμασταί μοι; τίς γάρ ἐστιν ὁ ἐμοὶ ἀντιστάς;

³ἢ τίς ἀντιστήσεταί μοι καὶ ὑπομενεῖ, εἰ πᾶσα ἡ ὑπ᾿ οὐρανὸν ἐμή ἐστιν;

⁴οὐ σιωπήσομαι δι᾿ αὐτόν, καὶ λόγον δυνάμεως ἐλεήσει τὸν ἴσον αὐτῷ.

⁵τίς ἀποκαλύψει πρόσωπον ἐνδύσεως αὐτοῦ, εἰς δὲ πτύξιν θώρακος αὐτοῦ τίς ἂν εἰσέλθοι;

⁶πύλας προσώπου αὐτοῦ τίς ἀνοίξει; κύκλῳ ὀδόντων αὐτοῦ φόβος.

⁷τὰ ἔγκατα αὐτοῦ ἀσπίδες χάλκεαι, σύνδεσμος δὲ αὐτοῦ ὥσπερ σμυρίτης λίθος·

⁸εἷς τοῦ ἑνὸς κολλῶνται, πνεῦμα δὲ οὐ μὴ διέλθῃ αὐτόν·

⁹ἀνὴρ τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ προσκολληθήσεται, συνέχονται καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀποσπασθῶσιν.

¹⁰ἐν πταρμῷ αὐτοῦ ἐπιφαύσκεται φέγγος, οἱ δὲ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ εἶδος ῾Εωσφόρου.

¹¹ἐκ στόματος αὐτοῦ ἐκπορεύονται ὡς λαμπάδες καιόμεναι καὶ διαρριπτοῦνται ὡς ἐσχάραι πυρός.

¹²ἐκ μυκτήρων αὐτοῦ ἐκπορεύεται καπνὸς καμίνου καιομένης πυρὶ ἀνθράκων.

¹³ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ ἄνθρακες, φλὸξ δὲ ἐκ στόματος αὐτοῦ ἐκπορεύεται.

¹⁴ἐν δὲ τραχήλῳ αὐτοῦ αὐλίζεται δύναμις, ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ τρέχει ἀπώλεια.

¹⁵σάρκες δὲ σώματος αὐτοῦ κεκόλληνται· καταχέει ἐπ᾿ αὐτόν, οὐ σαλευθήσεται.

¹⁶ἡ καρδία αὐτοῦ πέπηγεν ὡς λίθος, ἕστηκε δὲ ὥσπερ ἄκμων ἀνήλατος.

¹⁷στραφέντος δὲ αὐτοῦ, φόβος θηρίοις τετράποσιν ἐπὶ γῆς ἁλλομένοις.

¹⁸ἐὰν συναντήσωσιν αὐτῷ λόγχαι, οὐδὲν μὴ ποιήσωσι δόρυ καὶ θώρακα·

¹⁹ἥγηται μὲν γὰρ σίδηρον ἄχυρα, χαλκὸν δὲ ὥσπερ ξύλον σαθρόν.

²⁰οὐ μὴ τρώσῃ αὐτὸν τόξον χάλκεον, ἥγηται μὲν πετροβόλον χόρτον·

²¹ὡς καλάμη ἐλογίσθησαν σφῦραι, καταγελᾷ δὲ σεισμοῦ πυρφόρου.

²²ἡ στρωμνὴ αὐτοῦ ὀβελίσκοι ὀξεῖς, πᾶς δὲ χρυσὸς θαλάσσης ὑπ᾿ αὐτὸν ὥσπερ πηλὸς ἀμύθητος.

²³ἀναζεῖ τὴν ἄβυσσον ὥσπερ χαλκεῖον, ἥγηται δὲ τὴν θάλασσαν ὥσπερ ἐξάλειπτρον,

²⁴τὸν δὲ τάρταρον τῆς ἀβύσσου ὥσπερ αἰχμάλωτον· ἐλογίσατο ἄβυσσον εἰς περίπατον.

²⁵οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὅμοιον αὐτῷ πεποιημένον ἐγκαταπαίζεσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν ἀγγέλων μου·

²⁶πᾶν ὑψηλὸν ὁρᾷ, αὐτὸς δὲ βασιλεὺς πάντων τῶν ἐν τοῖς ὕδασιν.

¹Hast thou not seen him? and hast thou not wondered at the things said [of him]?

²Dost thou not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me?

³Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole [world] under heaven is mine?

⁴I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power [one] shall pity his antagonist.

⁵Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate?

⁶Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.

⁷His inwards are as brazen plates, and the texture of his [skin] as a smyrite stone.

⁸One [part] cleaves fast to another, and the air cannot come between them.

⁹They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and cannot be separated.

¹⁰At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are [as] the appearance of the morning star.

¹¹Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.

¹²Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.

¹³His breath is [as] live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

¹⁴And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.

¹⁵The flesh also of his body is joined together: [if one] pours [violence] upon him, he shall not be moved.

¹⁶His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.

¹⁷And when he turns, [he is] a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.

¹⁸If spears should come against him, [men] will effect nothing, [either with] the spear or the breast-plate.

¹⁹For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.

²⁰The bow of brass shall not wound him, he deems a slinger as grass.

²¹Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.

²²His lair is [formed of] sharp points; and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense [quantity of] clay.

²³He makes the deep boil like a brazen caldron; and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,

²⁴and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as [his] range.

²⁵There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.

²⁶He beholds every high thing: and he is king of all that are in the waters.