Jó 10

1 "My soul is weary of my life.

I will give free course to my complaint.

I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

2 I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me.

Show me why you contend with me.

3 Is it good to you that you should oppress,

that you should despise the work of your hands,

and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

4 Do you have eyes of flesh?

Or do you see as man sees?

5 Are your days as the days of mortals,

or your years as man’s years,

6 that you inquire after my iniquity,

and search after my sin?

7 Although you know that I am not wicked,

there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

8 "‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether,

yet you destroy me.

9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay.

Will you bring me into dust again?

10 Haven’t you poured me out like milk,

and curdled me like cheese?

11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh,

and knit me together with bones and sinews.

12 You have granted me life and loving kindness.

Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

13 Yet you hid these things in your heart.

I know that this is with you:

14 if I sin, then you mark me.

You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

15 If I am wicked, woe to me.

If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head,

being filled with disgrace,

and conscious of my affliction.

16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion.

Again you show yourself powerful to me.

17 You renew your witnesses against me,

and increase your indignation on me.

Changes and warfare are with me.

18 "‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb?

I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

19 I should have been as though I had not been.

I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

20 Aren’t my days few?

Stop!

Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

21 before I go where I will not return from,

to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

22 the land dark as midnight,

of the shadow of death,

without any order,

where the light is as midnight.’"

Kāhore tā Ihowā i Tika

1 "Kua hōhā tōku wairua ki tōku ora;

ka tukua e ahau tāku tangi kia rere ana;

ka kōrero ahau i te kikiwatanga o tōku ngākau.

2 Ka mea ahau ki te Atua, Kaua ahau e whakahēngia;

whakakitea ki ahau te take i totohe ai koe ki ahau.

3 He mea pai rānei ki a koe kia tūkino koe,

kia whakahāwea ki te mahi a ōu ringa,

ā, kia whiti tōu mārama ki te whakaaro o te hunga kino?

4 He kanohi kikokiko rānei ōu?

He pēnei rānei tāu titiro me tā te tangata titiro?

5 He rite rānei ōu rā ki ō te tangata rā?

He rite rānei ōu tāu ki ō te tangata rā?

6 I uiuia ai e koe tōku kino, i rapua ai e koe tōku hara?

7 Ahakoa e mōhio ana anō koe ehara ahau i te mea hē,

kāhore anō tētahi hei whakaora i roto i tōu ringa?

8 "Nā ōu ringa ahau i mahi, i hanga, he mea hono mārie i tētahi taha, i tētahi taha;

otiia, e whakangaromia ana ahau e koe.

9 Kia mahara rā, nāu ahau i hanga, ānō he paru;

tērā rānei koe e whakahoki anō i ahau ki te puehu?

10 He teka ianei he mea riringi ahau nāu ānō he waiū,

meinga ana ahau e koe kia tetepe ānō he tīhi?

11 Nāu ahau i whakakākahu ki te kiri, ki te kikokiko,

ā, nāu anō ahau i hohou ki te wheua, ki te uaua.

12 Whakawhiwhia ana ahau e koe ki te ora, ki te atawhai,

ā, he tirotirohanga mai nāu i mau ai tōku wairua.

13 "Heoi, hunā ana anō ēnei mea e koe i roto i tōu ngākau;

e mōhio ana hoki ahau kei a koe anō tēnei.

14 Ki te hara ahau, ka mātauria e koe;

e kore anō koe e whakakāhore ki tōku hē.

15 Ki te hē ahau, auē tōku mate!

Ki te tika ahau, e kore tonu e ara tōku māhunga;

he kī hoki nōku i te whakamā me te titiro iho ki tōku mate.

16 Ā, ki te whakarewa ake tōku māhunga i a ia,

ka whāia ahau e koe ānō he raiona;

ā, ka whakakite anō koe i a koe, i tōu mīharo, ki ahau.

17 E whakahoutia ana e koe āu kaiwhakaatu i ōku hē,

e whakanuia ana hoki e koe tōu riri ki ahau;

ko ngā putanga kētanga, ko te whawhai hei pēhi i ahau.

18 "He aha rā ahau i whakaputaina mai ai e koe i roto i te kōpū?

Te hemo noa atu ai ahau, ā, kīhai tētahi kanohi i kite i ahau.

19 Pēnei kua rite ahau, ānō kua kāhore noa iho;

kua mauria atu ahau i te kōpū ki te urupā.

20 He teka rānei he torutoru ōku rā?

Kāti rā, waiho ake koa ahau, kia āhua mākoha ana i tēnei wā iti,

21 keiwhā haere ahau ki te wāhi e kore nei ahau e hoki mai,

ki te whenua o te pōuri, o te ātārangi o te mate;

22 ki te whenua o te pōuri kerekere, o te tino o te pōuri;

he whenua nō te ātārangi o te mate, kāhore nei ō reira tikanga,

ā, ko tōna mārama, koia anō te pōuri."