Jó 13

1 "Behold, my eye has seen all this.

My ear has heard and understood it.

2 What you know, I know also.

I am not inferior to you.

3 "Surely I would speak to the Almighty.

I desire to reason with God.

4 But you are forgers of lies.

You are all physicians of no value.

5 Oh that you would be completely silent!

Then you would be wise.

6 Hear now my reasoning.

Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

7 Will you speak unrighteously for God,

and talk deceitfully for him?

8 Will you show partiality to him?

Will you contend for God?

9 Is it good that he should search you out?

Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

10 He will surely reprove you

if you secretly show partiality.

11 Won’t his majesty make you afraid

and his dread fall on you?

12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes.

Your defenses are defenses of clay.

13 "Be silent!

Leave me alone, that I may speak.

Let come on me what will.

14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth,

and put my life in my hand?

15 Behold, he will kill me.

I have no hope.

Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

16 This also will be my salvation,

that a godless man will not come before him.

17 Listen carefully to my speech.

Let my declaration be in your ears.

18 See now, I have set my cause in order.

I know that I am righteous.

19 Who is he who will contend with me?

For then I would hold my peace and give up the spirit.

20 "Only don’t do two things to me,

then I will not hide myself from your face:

21 withdraw your hand far from me,

and don’t let your terror make me afraid.

22 Then call, and I will answer,

or let me speak, and you answer me.

23 How many are my iniquities and sins?

Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

24 Why do you hide your face,

and consider me your enemy?

25 Will you harass a driven leaf?

Will you pursue the dry stubble?

26 For you write bitter things against me,

and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

27 You also put my feet in the stocks,

and mark all my paths.

You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing,

like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Ki a Ihowā te Tautohe a Hopa

1 "Nanā, kua kitea katoatia tēnei e tōku kanohi,

kua rongo tōku taringa, kua mōhio.

2 Ko tā koutou e mōhio nā, ko tāku anō tēnā e mōhio nei;

kāhore hoki ahau i hoki iho i a koutou.

3 Inā, e whai kupu anō ahau ki te Kaha Rawa;

ā, e hiahia ana ahau ki te kōrerorero ki te Atua.

4 Ko koutou ia, he hunga tito i te teka,

he rata horihori noa koutou katoa.

5 Te pai nā, me i mutu rawa ā koutou kōrero!

Ko tō koutou whakaaro nui hoki tēnā.

6 Tēnā rā, whakarongo mai ki tāku tautohe,

maharatia ngā whawhai a ōku ngutu.

7 Me tautoko tā te Atua ki te kupu kino,

me tautoko rānei tāna ki te tinihanga?

8 Ka whakapai kanohi koia koutou ki a ia?

Mā koutou rānei tā te Atua tautohe?

9 He pai rānei kia rapua tā koutou e ia?

E māminga rānei koutou ki a ia,

e pērā me tētahi ka māminga nei ki te tangata?

10 He pono ka whakahē ia ki a koutou

ki te whakapai puku koutou i te kanohi.

11 E kore rānei koutou e mataku ki tōna nui?

E kore rānei te wehi ki a ia e tau ki a koutou?

12 Ko ā koutou pepeha nunui he whakatauki nō te pungarehu,

ko ō koutou parepare he parepare paru.

13 "Kāti te kōrero, waiho noa iho ahau, kia kōrero ai ahau,

ahakoa pā mai te aha ki ahau.

14 He aha ōku kikokiko i ngaua ai e ōku niho?

He aha tōku wairua i waiho ai e ahau i roto i tōku ringa?

15 Ahakoa whakamate noa ia i ahau, ka tatari tonu ahau ki a ia;

otiia, ka mau tonu ahau ki ōku ara i tōna aroaro.

16 Ko tēnei hoki hei oranga mōku;

e kore hoki te tangata atuakore e tae mai ki tōna aroaro.

17 Āta whakarongo ki āku kōrero;

kia anga mai ō koutou taringa ki tāku e whakapuaki nei.

18 Nā, kua takoto tāku mō te whakawā;

e mōhio ana ahau he tika ahau.

19 Ko wai ia hei totohe ki ahau?

Ka whakarongo puku hoki ahau āianei, ā, ka hemo ahau."

Te Īnoi Takarure a Hopa

20 "Engari kaua ngā mea e rua e meatia mai ki ahau;

kātahi ahau ka kore e huna i ahau i tōu mata.

21 Kia matara atu tōu ringa ki tawhiti i ahau;

ā, kaua ahau e whakawehia e te mataku ki a koe.

22 Ko reira, māu e karanga, ā, māku e whakaō atu;

māku rānei e kōrero, ā, māu e whakahoki kupu mai ki ahau.

23 Ka hia rā ōku kino, ōku hara?

Meinga ahau kia mātau ki tōku hē me tōku hara.

24 He aha tōu mata i hunā ai e koe?

He aha ahau i kīia ai e koe he hoariri?

25 E kapokapohia rānei e koe te pakawhā e pūhia haeretia ana?

E whāia rānei e koe te pāpapa maroke?

26 Kei te tuhituhi nā hoki koe i ngā mea kawa mōku,

e mea ana hoki kia riro mai i ahau ngā hē o tōku taitamarikitanga.

27 Karapitia iho e koe ōku waewae ki te rākau,

he mea tohu nāu ōku ara katoa,

ā, he mea tuhi nāu ōku takahanga waewae tawhio noa.

28 "Ahakoa tōku rite kei te mea pirau, e memeha noa ana,

kei te kākahu e kainga ana e te pūrehurehu."