Jó 14

1 "Man, who is born of a woman,

is of few days, and full of trouble.

2 He grows up like a flower, and is cut down.

He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

3 Do you open your eyes on such a one,

and bring me into judgment with you?

4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?

Not one.

5 Seeing his days are determined,

the number of his months is with you,

and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.

6 Look away from him, that he may rest,

until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.

7 "For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down,

that it will sprout again,

that the tender branch of it will not cease.

8 Though its root grows old in the earth,

and its stock dies in the ground,

9 yet through the scent of water it will bud,

and sprout boughs like a plant.

10 But man dies, and is laid low.

Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

11 As the waters fail from the sea,

and the river wastes and dries up,

12 so man lies down and doesn’t rise.

Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake,

nor be roused out of their sleep.

13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,*14:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.

that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past,

that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!

14 If a man dies, will he live again?

I would wait all the days of my warfare,

until my release should come.

15 You would call, and I would answer you.

You would have a desire for the work of your hands.

16 But now you count my steps.

Don’t you watch over my sin?

17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag.

You fasten up my iniquity.

18 "But the mountain falling comes to nothing.

The rock is removed out of its place.

19 The waters wear the stones.

The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth.

So you destroy the hope of man.

20 You forever prevail against him, and he departs.

You change his face, and send him away.

21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it.

They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

22 But his flesh on him has pain,

and his soul within him mourns."

He Poto noa te Oranga

1 "Ko te tangata i whānau i te wahine,

he torutoru ōna rā; kī tonu anō i te raruraru,

2 ānō he puāwai ia e puta mai ana, e kotia iho ana;

rere ana ia, ānō he ātārangi, kāhore hoki he tūmautanga.

3 E titiro mai anō rānei ōu kanohi ki te pēnei?

E mea rānei koe i ahau kia whakawā tāua ki a tāua?

4 Ko wai hei hōmai i te mea mā i roto i te mea poke?

Hore rawa.

5 Kua rite nā hoki ngā rā mōna;

kei a koe te maha o ōna marama.

Takoto rawa i a koe te tikanga mōna,

ā, e kore ia e whiti ki tua.

6 Tahuri kē atu te titiro i a ia,

kia ai ōna pārīrātanga,

kia āta tutuki ai tōna rā,

kia rite ai ki ō te kaimahi.

7 "Ka ai hoki he whakaaronga ki te rākau i tapahia,

tērā anō e pariri, e kore anō hoki e mutu te wana o tōna pihi.

8 Ahakoa kua tawhitotia tōna pakiaka ki te whenua,

ā, kua mate tōna tinana i roto i te oneone;

9 heoi, mā te haunga o te wai ka pihi,

ka kōkiri ōna peka ānō ko tā te mea tupu.

10 Ko te tangata ia, mate iho, marere noa iho;

āe, ka hemo te tangata, ā, kei hea ia?

11 Pērā i ngā wai e hē mai nei i te moana,

i te awa e mimiti ana, ka maroke;

12 e pērā ana anō te tangata, e takoto ana,

ā, kāhore he whakatikanga ake.

Kāhore he marangatanga ake mō rātou,

ā kia kore rā anō ngā rangi;

e kore anō rātou e ara i tō rātou moe.

13 "Auē, kia hunā noatia oti ahau e koe ki te pō,

kia waihotia noatia iho ahau e koe kia ngaro ana,

kia hoki rā anō tōu riri;

kia rohea noatia mai e koe tētahi wā mōku,

ā, ka mahara mai ai anō ki ahau!

14 Ki te mate te tangata, e ora anō rānei ia?

Ka tatari ahau i ngā rā katoa o tōku ngananga,

kia tae mai rā anō he whakaputanga mōku.

15 Māu e karanga, kia whakaō atu ai ahau;

kāhore hoki e kore ka matenui koe ki te mahi a ōu ringa.

16 Ināianei hoki e taua ana e koe ōku hīkoinga;

he teka ianei e matatau tonu mai ana koe ki tōku hara?

17 Hīri rawa tōku hē ki roto ki te pūtea,

tuitui rawa e koe tōku kino.

18 "He pono ko te maunga e horo ana e memeha noa ake ana,

e nekehia ana te toka i tōna wāhi.

19 E ngau ana te wai i ngā kōhatu;

mā tōna puhaketanga e horoi atu te puehu o te whenua;

ā, whakangaromia iho e koe te tūmanako a te tangata.

20 Taea ana ia e koe ake tonu atu,

ā, pahure ana ia;

puta kē ana i a koe tōna mata,

ā, tonoa atu ana ia kia haere.

21 Ko te whakahōnoretanga o āna tama,

kāhore e mōhiotia e ia;

ka hoki iho rātou hei ware,

heoi kāhore tētahi aha o rātou e maharatia e ia.

22 E mamae anō ia te kikokiko o tōna tinana,

ā, ka tangi tōna wairua i roto i a ia."