Jó 7

1 "Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth?

Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow,

as a hireling who looks for his wages,

3 so I am made to possess months of misery,

wearisome nights are appointed to me.

4 When I lie down, I say,

‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’

I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust.

My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,

and are spent without hope.

7 Oh remember that my life is a breath.

My eye will no more see good.

8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no more.

Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away,

so he who goes down to Sheol*7:9 Sheol is the place of the dead. will come up no more.

10 He will return no more to his house,

neither will his place know him any more.

11 "Therefore I will not keep silent.

I will speak in the anguish of my spirit.

I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster,

that you put a guard over me?

13 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me.

My couch will ease my complaint,’

14 then you scare me with dreams

and terrify me through visions,

15 so that my soul chooses strangling,

death rather than my bones.

16 I loathe my life.

I don’t want to live forever.

Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

17 What is man, that you should magnify him,

that you should set your mind on him,

18 that you should visit him every morning,

and test him every moment?

19 How long will you not look away from me,

nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men?

Why have you set me as a mark for you,

so that I am a burden to myself?

21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity?

For now will I lie down in the dust.

You will seek me diligently, but I will not be."

Ko Hopa: He Mutunga kore Taku Mamaetanga

1 "He teka rānei, kua takoto he pakanga mō te tangata i runga i te whenua,

he rite anō ōna rā ki ngā rā o te kaimahi?

2 E rite ana ki te pononga, e matenui nei ki te ātārangi,

ki te kaimahi, e tūmanako nei ki te utu mō tāna mahi;

3 koia tōku rite, ka whiwhi nei ki ngā marama horihori,

ā, he māuiui ngā pō kua whakaritea mōku.

4 Ka takoto ahau, ka mea ahau, ‘Āhea ahau ara ai?’

He roa ia te pō; heoi ka tāhurihuri kau ahau ā ao noa.

5 Ko te kākahu mō ōku kikokiko he kutukutu, he pōkuru oneone;

ka kukuti tōku kiri, ā, ka ngātata anō.

6 Ko ōku rā hohoro atu i te rākau a te kaiwhatu;

pau ake, tē ai he tūmanakohanga atu.

7 "Kia mahara he hau ōku rā;

heoi anō kitenga o tōku kanohi i te pai.

8 Ko te kanohi o te tangata e kite ana i ahau,

heoi anō tōna tirohanga mai ki ahau;

kei runga i ahau ōu kanohi, heoi kāhore iho ahau.

9 Memeha atu te kapua, ngaro atu;

he pērā anō te tangata e haere ana ki te urupā; e kore e hoki ake.

10 E kore ia e hoki mai anō ki tōna whare,

e kore anō tōna wāhi e mahara ki a ia i muri.

11 "Nā, e kore e kaiponuhia e ahau tōku māngai;

ka kōrero ahau i tōku wairua e mamae nei;

ka tangi i te kawa i tōku ngākau.

12 He moana rānei ahau, he tohorā,

i mea ai koe i te kaitirotiro mōku?

13 Ki te mea ahau, ‘Kei tōku moenga ahau te mārie ai,

mā tōku takotoranga e whakamāmā tāku tangi.’

14 Nā, ka whakahaehaetia ahau e koe ki ngā moe,

ka whakawehia ahau ki ngā mea e whakakitea mai.

15 Ā, ki tā tōku wairua he pai te tārona;

pai ake te mate i ēnei wheua ōku.

16 E whakarihariha ana ahau ki tōku ora;

kāhore ōku hiahia kia ora tonu ahau.

Waiho noa iho ahau, he mea teka noa hoki ōku rā.

17 "He aha te tangata, i whakanuia ai e koe?

I anga ai tōu ngākau ki a ia?

18 I titiro ai koe i a ia i tēnei ata,

i tēnei ata, i honohono ai tāu whakamātautau i a ia?

19 Kia pēhea ake te roa ōu kāhore nei e tahuri atu i ahau,

ōku kāhore nei e waiho noa iho e koe, kia horomia ai tōku hūware?

20 Mehemea kua hara ahau, kia aha atu ahau ki a koe, e te kaitiaki o ngā tāngata?

He aha ahau i waiho ai e koe hei patunga māu,

i taimaha iho ai ahau ki ahau anō.

21 He aha koe tē whakarere noa ai i tōku hē,

tē whakapahemo ai i tōku kino?

Ākuanei hoki ahau moe ai ki te puehu,

ā, ka āta rapu koe i ahau, otiia kāhore noa iho ahau."