Jó 15

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

2 "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge,

and fill himself with the east wind?

3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk,

or with speeches with which he can do no good?

4 Yes, you do away with fear,

and hinder devotion before God.

5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth,

and you choose the language of the crafty.

6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I.

Yes, your own lips testify against you.

7 "Are you the first man who was born?

Or were you brought out before the hills?

8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God?

Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

9 What do you know that we don’t know?

What do you understand which is not in us?

10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men,

much older than your father.

11 Are the consolations of God too small for you,

even the word that is gentle toward you?

12 Why does your heart carry you away?

Why do your eyes flash,

13 that you turn your spirit against God,

and let such words go out of your mouth?

14 What is man, that he should be clean?

What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones.

Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,

a man who drinks iniquity like water!

17 "I will show you, listen to me;

that which I have seen I will declare

18 (which wise men have told by their fathers,

and have not hidden it;

19 to whom alone the land was given,

and no stranger passed among them):

20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days,

even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

21 A sound of terrors is in his ears.

In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

22 He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness.

He is waited for by the sword.

23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’

He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

24 Distress and anguish make him afraid.

They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God,

and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,

26 he runs at him with a stiff neck,

with the thick shields of his bucklers,

27 because he has covered his face with his fatness,

and gathered fat on his thighs.

28 He has lived in desolate cities,

in houses which no one inhabited,

which were ready to become heaps.

29 He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue,

neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.

30 He will not depart out of darkness.

The flame will dry up his branches.

He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.

31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself,

for emptiness will be his reward.

32 It will be accomplished before his time.

His branch will not be green.

33 He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine,

and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.

34 For the company of the godless will be barren,

and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

35 They conceive mischief and produce iniquity.

Their heart prepares deceit."

Te Whakawhitinga Kōrero Tuarua

1 Nā, ka whakautua e Eripāta Temani, i mea ia:

2 "He horihori kau koia te mātauranga e whakapuakina e te tangata whakaaro,

kia whakakīia e ia tōna kōpū ki te hau marangai?

3 Me kōrero rānei ia ko ngā kupu kore hua hei ako,

ko ngā whaikōrero rānei kāhore nei e whai tikanga?

4 Āe, kua whakakorea atu nā e koe te wehi,

kei te pupuri mai koe i te īnoi i te aroaro o te Atua.

5 Nā, kei te whakaakona tōu māngai e tōu kino,

ā, kei te whiriwhiria e koe ko te arero o te hunga tinihanga.

6 Ehara i ahau, nā tōu māngai anō i hopu tōu kino;

ko ōu ngutu anō hei whakaatu i tōu hē.

7 "Ko koe ianei te tangata tuatahi kua whānau?

He mea hanga rānei koe nō mua atu i ngā pukepuke?

8 Kua rongo rānei koe i tō te Atua whakaaro puku?

Kei te kaiponu rānei koe i te whakaaro ki a koe anake?

9 Ko te aha te mōhiotia ana e koe, ā, kāhore e mōhiotia e mātou?

Ko tēhea whakaaro anō hoki ōu kāhore nei i a mātou?

10 Kei a mātou ngā upoko hina rātou tahi ko ngā tino koroheke,

kaumātua rawa ake i tōu pāpā.

11 He iti rawa rānei mōu ngā whakamārie a te Atua,

te kupu ngāwari e hoatu ana ki a koe?

12 He aha koe i kāhakina atu ai e tōu ngākau?

He aha hoki ōu kanohi i kimokimo ai,

13 i tahuri ai tōu wairua ki te whakahē i te Atua,

i puaki ai ēnā kupu i tōu māngai?

14 "He aha te tangata, e mā ai ia,

te whānau rānei a te wahine, e tika ai?

15 Nanā, kāhore ia e whakawhirinaki ki āna mea tapu;

kāhore hoki ngā rangi e mā ki tāna titiro.

16 Kātahi ia te hē rawa ko te mea whakarihariha,

ko te mea poke, ko te tangata e inu nei i te kino ānō he wai.

17 "Māku e whakaatu ki a koe, whakarongo mai ki ahau;

ko te mea kua kitea e ahau, māku e kōrero atu –

18 he mea kōrero mai nā ngā mōhio,

he whakarerenga iho nā ō rātou mātua;

kīhai hoki i hunā e rātou,

19 ki a rātou nei anake te hōmaitanga o te whenua;

kīhai hoki te tangata kē i tika i waenganui i a rātou.

20 E whakamamae ana te tangata kino i ōna rā katoa,

arā i te maha o ngā tau e haupū nei mō te kaitūkino.

21 He reo whakawehi kei roto i ōna taringa;

i te wā whai rawa ka tae mai te kaipāhua ki a ia.

22 Kāhore āna whakaaetanga ake tērā ia ka hoki ake i te pōuri,

e whanga ana anō hoki te hoari ki a ia.

23 E kōpikopiko noa ana ia ki te taro māna,

e mea ana, ‘Kei hea rā?’

E mōhio ana ia kua tata ki tōna ringa te rā o te pōuri.

24 Ko te ngākau mamae, me te tūmatatenga, hei whakawehi i a ia;

ka kaha ake rāua i a ia,

me te mea he kīngi kua rite ana mea mō te whawhai.

25 Kua totoro nei ōna ringa ki te whawhai ki te Atua,

kua whakatoatoa nei i a ia ki te whawhai ki te Kaha Rawa;

26 kua rere ki a ia me te kakī mārō,

me ngā puku mātotoru o āna whakangungu rākau.

27 "Kua kōpakina hoki tōna mata e tōna ngako,

ā, kua tupu te ngako o tōna hope.

28 Nā, i noho ia ki ngā pā mahue,

ki ngā whare kāhore i nohoia e te tangata,

meāke nei waiho hei pūranga.

29 E kore ia e whai taonga, e kore anō ōna rawa e mau,

e kore anō hoki tō rātou hua e tāupe ki te whenua.

30 E kore ia e puta i te pōuri, ōna peka ka maroke i te mura,

ka riro atu anō ia i te manawa o tōna māngai.

31 Kei whakawhirinaki ia ki te mea teka noa, kei tinihanga ki a ia anō;

nō te mea ko te teka noa hei utu ki a ia.

32 E kore tōna rā e taea, kua rite;

e kore anō tōna peka e whai rau.

33 Ka ruiruia e ia āna karepe kaiota ānō ko te wāina,

ā, ka makā tāna puāwai me te mea ko te ōriwa.

34 Ka pakoko hoki te whakaminenga o te hunga atuakore,

ka pau hoki i te ahi ngā tēneti o ngā utu whakapati.

35 He mahi nanakia te mea i hapū ki roto ki a rātou,

whānau ake he teka noa;

ko ō rātou kōpū anō hei hanga i te tinihanga."