Eyüp 9

¹Eyüp sözü alıp şöyle dedi:

²Gerçekten bunun böyle olduğunu biliyorum; ama ölümlü bir insan Rab'bin karşısında nasıl haklı çıkabilir?

³Çünkü eğer insan O'nunla yargılanmak istese, Tanrı ona kulak asmayacaktır; öyle ki insan O'nun bin sözünden tek birine bile karşı koyamaz.

⁴O zihnen bilgedir, ulu ve güçlüdür; O'na karşı dikbaşlılık edip de ayakta kalabilen kim var?

⁵O dağları yaşlandırıp yok eder de dağlar farkına varmaz; öfkeyle altüst eder onları.

⁶Göklerin altındaki yeryüzünü temellerinden sarsar, yeryüzünün sütunları ise titrer.

⁷Güneşe buyurur ve güneş doğmaz; yıldızların üzerini mühürleyip kapatır.

⁸Gökleri tek başına geren ve denizin dalgaları üzerinde sanki kuru toprakta yürür gibi yürüyendir O.

⁹Ülker'i, Akşam Yıldızı'nı, Arkturus'u ve güneyin gizli odalarını yaratan O'dur.

¹⁰Sayısı olmayan büyük ve araştırılamaz işleri, görkemli ve olağanüstü harikaları yapan O'dur.

¹¹Üzerimden geçip gitse O'nu göremem; yanımdan süzülse varlığını bile algılayamam.

¹²Eğer canı alıp götürürse O'nu kim engelleyebilir? Kim O'na "Ne yaptın?" diyebilir?

¹³O kendisi öfkesinden yüz çevirmez; göklerin altındaki deniz canavarları bile O'nun önünde boyun eğer.

¹⁴Eğer beni dinleyecek olursa, benim sözlerimi gerçekten O mu yargılayacak?

¹⁵Haklı olsam bile beni dinlemeyecektir; ancak beni yargılayacak olanın hükmünden merhamet dileyebilirim.

¹⁶O'nu çağırsam ve O bana kulak asmasa bile, sesimi işittiğine asla inanmam.

¹⁷Beni zifiri karanlıkla mı ezecek? Oysa yaralarımı nedensiz yere çoğalttı.

¹⁸Soluk almama izin vermiyor, beni acılıkla dolduruyor.

¹⁹Güç konusuna gelince, gerçekten O hükmeder; yargı konusuna gelince, O'nun kararına karşı kim durabilir?

²⁰Haklı olsam bile kendi ağzım beni suçlu çıkarır; kusursuz olsam bile beni eğri yollu gösterir.

²¹Günah işlemiş olsam bile bunu canımla bilmem; ancak yaşamım benden geri alınıyor.

²²Bu yüzden diyorum ki: Öfke hem büyüğü hem de güçlüyü yok eder.

²³Çünkü kötüler dehşet verici bir ölümle ansızın ölür, doğruların felaketiyle ise alay edilir.

²⁴Yeryüzü tanrısızın eline teslim edilmiştir; O, yeryüzü yargıçlarının yüzünü örter. Eğer bunu yapan O değilse, kimdir?

²⁵Ömrüm bir koşucudan daha hızlı akıp gidiyor; iyilik görmeden kaçıp gidiyorlar.

²⁶Gemilerin suda bıraktığı iz gibi, avının üzerine süzülen bir kartal gibi geçip gidiyorlar.

²⁷"Konuşmayı unutacağım, yüzümü öne eğip inleyeceğim" desem bile,

²⁸Bütün uzuvlarımla titriyorum; çünkü beni suçsuz sayıp serbest bırakmayacağını biliyorum.

²⁹Mademki suçlu sayılacağım, öyleyse neden ölmedim?

³⁰Kar suyuyla yıkansam, ellerimi tertemiz ellerle arındırsam bile,

³¹Beni öyle bir pisliğe batırırsın ki, saygın kaftanım bile benden iğrenir.

³²Çünkü O benim gibi bir insan değil ki O'na karşılık verebileyim, eşit düzeyde mahkemeye gidebilelim.

³³Keşke aramızda her ikimizin üzerine elini koyup bizi sorgulayacak ve dinleyecek bir hakem olsaydı!

³⁴Üzerimdeki değneğini kaldırsın, O'nun dehşeti beni sarsmasın;

³⁵O zaman korkmadan konuşabilirim; çünkü kendimi bu durumda suçlu görmüyorum.

¹ΥΠΟΛΑΒΩΝ δὲ ᾿Ιὼβ λέγει·

²ἐπ᾿ ἀληθείας οἶδα, ὅτι οὕτως ἐστί· πῶς γὰρ ἔσται δίκαιος βροτὸς παρὰ Κυρίῳ;

³ἐὰν γὰρ βούληται κριθῆναι αὐτῷ, οὐ μὴ ὑπακούσῃ αὐτῷ, ἵνα μὴ ἀντείπῃ πρὸς ἕνα λόγον αὐτοῦ ἐκ χιλίων·

⁴σοφὸς γάρ ἐστι διανοίᾳ, κραταιός τε καὶ μέγας. τίς σκληρὸς γενόμενος ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ὑπέμεινεν;

⁵ὁ παλαιῶν ὄρη καὶ οὐκ οἴδασιν, ὁ καταστρέφων αὐτὰ ὀργῇ·

⁶ὁ σείων τὴν ὑπ᾿ οὐρανὸν ἐκ θεμελίων, οἱ δὲ στῦλοι αὐτῆς σαλεύονται·

⁷ὁ λέγων τῷ ἡλίῳ καὶ οὐκ ἀνατέλλει, κατὰ δὲ ἄστρων κατασφραγίζει·

⁸ὁ τανύσας τὸν οὐρανὸν μόνος, καὶ περιπατῶν ὡς ἐπ᾿ ἐδάφους ἐπὶ θαλάσσης·

⁹ὁ ποιῶν Πλειάδα καὶ ῞Εσπερον καὶ ᾿Αρκτοῦρον, καὶ ταμιεῖα νότου·

¹⁰ὁ ποιῶν μεγάλα καὶ ἀνεξιχνίαστα, ἔνδοξά τε καὶ ἐξαίσια, ὧν οὐκ ἔστιν ἀριθμός.

¹¹ἐὰν ὑπερβῇ με, οὐ μὴ ἴδω· ἐὰν παρέλθῃ με, οὐδ᾿ ὧς ἔγνων.

¹²ἐὰν ἀπαλλάξῃ, τίς ἀποστρέψει ἢ τίς ἐρεῖ αὐτῷ· τί ἐποίησας;

¹³αὐτὸς γὰρ ἀπέστραπται ὀργήν, ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐκάμφθησαν κήτη τὰ ὑπ᾿ οὐρανόν.

¹⁴ἐὰν δέ μου ὑπακούσηται, ἦ διακρινεῖ τὰ ῥήματά μου·

¹⁵ἐάν τε γὰρ ὦ δίκαιος, οὐκ εἰσακούσεταί μου, τοῦ κρίματος αὐτοῦ δεηθήομαι·

¹⁶ἐάν τε καλέσω καὶ μὴ ὑπακούσῃ, οὐ πιστεύω ὅτι εἰσακήκοέ μου τῆς φωνῆς.

¹⁷μὴ γνόφῳ με ἐκτρίψῃ; πολλὰ δέ μου τὰ συντρίμματα πεποίηκε διακενῆς·

¹⁸οὐκ ἐᾷ γάρ με ἀναπνεῦσαι, ἐνέπλησε δέ με πικρίας.

¹⁹ὅτι μὲν γὰρ ἰσχύι κρατεῖ· τίς οὖν κρίματι αὐτοῦ ἀντιστήσεται;

²⁰ἐὰν γὰρ ὦ δίκαιος, τὸ στόμα μου ἀσεβήσει· ἐάν τε ὦ ἄμεμπτος, σκολιὸς ἀποβήσομαι.

²¹εἴτε γὰρ ἠσέβησα, οὐκ οἶδα τῇ ψυχῇ, πλὴν ὅτι ἀφαιρεῖταί μου ἡ ζωή.

²²διὸ εἶπον· μέγα καὶ δυνάστην ἀπολλύει ὀργή,

²³ὅτι φαῦλοι ἐν θανάτῳ ἐξαισίῳ, ἀλλὰ δίκαιοι καταγελῶνται·

²⁴παραδέδονται γὰρ εἰς χεῖρας ἀσεβοῦς. πρόσωπα κριτῶν αὐτῆς συγκαλύπτει· εἰ δὲ μὴ αὐτός ἐστι, τίς ἐστιν;

²⁵ὁ δὲ βίος μού ἐστιν ἐλαφρότερος δρομέως· ἀπέδρασαν καὶ οὐκ εἴδοσαν.

²⁶ἢ καί ἐστι ναυσὶν ἴχνος ὁδοῦ ἢ ἀετοῦ πετομένου ζητοῦντος βοράν;

²⁷ἐάν τε γὰρ εἴπω, ἐπιλήσομαι λαλῶν, συγκύψας τῷ προσώπῳ στενάξω.

²⁸σείομαι πᾶσι τοῖς μέλεσιν, οἶδα γάρ ὅτι οὐκ ἀθῶόν με ἐάσεις.

²⁹ἐπειδὴ δέ εἰμι ἀσεβής, διατί οὐκ ἀπέθανον;

³⁰ἐὰν γὰρ ἀπολούσωμαι χιόνι καὶ ἀποκαθάρωμαι χερσὶ καθαραῖς,

³¹ἱκανῶς ἐν ρύπῳ με ἔβαψας, ἐβδελύξατο δέ με ἡ στολή·

³²οὐ γὰρ εἶ ἄνθρωπος κατ᾿ ἐμέ, ᾧ ἀντικρινοῦμαι, ἵνα ἔλθωμεν ὁμοθυμαδὸν εἰς κρίσιν.

³³εἴθε ἦν ὁ μεσίτης ἡμῶν καὶ ἐλέγχων καὶ διακούων ἀνὰ μέσον ἀμφοτέρων·

³⁴ἀπαλλαξάτω ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ τὴν ράβδον, ὁ δὲ φόβος αὐτοῦ μή με στροβείτω,

³⁵καὶ οὐ μὴ φοβηθῷ, ἀλλὰ λαλήσω· οὐ γὰρ οὕτω συνεπίσταμαι.

¹Then Job answered and said,

²I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?

³For if he would enter into judgment with him, [God] would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.

⁴For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?

⁵Who wears out the mountains, and [men] know it not: who overturns them in anger.

⁶Who shakes the [earth] under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.

⁷Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars.

⁸Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground.

⁹Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.

¹⁰Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.

¹¹If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: if he should pass by me, neither thus have I known [it].

¹²If he would take away, who shall turn him back? Or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?

¹³For [if] he has turned away [his] anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.

¹⁴Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.

¹⁵For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me: I will intreat his judgment.

¹⁶And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.

¹⁷Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made my bruises many without cause.

¹⁸For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.

¹⁹For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment?

²⁰For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.

²¹For even if I have sinned, I know it not [in] my soul: but my life is taken away.

²²Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.

²³For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.

²⁴For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous [man]: he covers the faces of the judges [of the earth]: but if it be not he, who is it?

²⁵But my life is swifter than a post: [my days] have fled away, and they knew it not.

²⁶Or again, is there a trace of [their] path [left] by ships? Or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks [its] prey?

²⁷And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;

²⁸I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone [as] innocent.

²⁹But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?

³⁰For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,

³¹thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.

³²For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.

³³Would that [he] our mediator were [present], and a reprover, and one who should hear [the cause] between both.

³⁴Let him remove [his] rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

³⁵so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious [of guilt].