Jó 21

1 Then Job answered,

2 "Listen diligently to my speech.

Let this be your consolation.

3 Allow me, and I also will speak.

After I have spoken, mock on.

4 As for me, is my complaint to man?

Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

5 Look at me, and be astonished.

Lay your hand on your mouth.

6 When I remember, I am troubled.

Horror takes hold of my flesh.

7 "Why do the wicked live,

become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

8 Their child is established with them in their sight,

their offspring before their eyes.

9 Their houses are safe from fear,

neither is the rod of God upon them.

10 Their bulls breed without fail.

Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.

11 They send out their little ones like a flock.

Their children dance.

12 They sing to the tambourine and harp,

and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

13 They spend their days in prosperity.

In an instant they go down to Sheol.*21:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.

14 They tell God, ‘Depart from us,

for we don’t want to know about your ways.

15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?

What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand.

The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

17 "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out,

that their calamity comes on them,

that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind,

as chaff that the storm carries away?

19 You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’

Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

20 Let his own eyes see his destruction.

Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

21 For what does he care for his house after him,

when the number of his months is cut off?

22 "Shall any teach God knowledge,

since he judges those who are high?

23 One dies in his full strength,

being wholly at ease and quiet.

24 His pails are full of milk.

The marrow of his bones is moistened.

25 Another dies in bitterness of soul,

and never tastes of good.

26 They lie down alike in the dust.

The worm covers them.

27 "Behold, I know your thoughts,

the plans with which you would wrong me.

28 For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince?

Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

29 Haven’t you asked wayfaring men?

Don’t you know their evidences,

30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity,

that they are led out to the day of wrath?

31 Who will declare his way to his face?

Who will repay him what he has done?

32 Yet he will be borne to the grave.

Men will keep watch over the tomb.

33 The clods of the valley will be sweet to him.

All men will draw after him,

as there were innumerable before him.

34 So how can you comfort me with nonsense,

because in your answers there remains only falsehood?"

Tērā e Kore te Hunga Kino e Whakawhiua

1 Anō rā ko Hopa, i mea ia:

2 "Āta whakarongo mai ki tāku kupu,

ā, hei tēnei he kupu whakamārie mai mā koutou.

3 Tukua ahau, ā, ka kōrero hoki ahau;

ā, ka mutu āku kōrero, haere tonu tā koutou tāwai.

4 "Ahau nei, ki te tangata koia tāku amuamu?

Ā, he aha ahau tē manawanui ai?

5 Titiro mai ki ahau, mīharo ai;

kōpania atu te ringa ki te māngai.

6 Mahara kau ahau, ka wehi,

mau pū te wehi o ōku kikokiko.

7 He aha te hunga kino i ora ai, i koroheke ai,

āe, i mārohirohi ai tō rātou kaha?

8 Pūmau tonu ō rātou uri ki tō rātou taha ki tō rātou aroaro,

ā, ko ā rātou whānau kei tā rātou tirohanga atu.

9 Ō rātou whare kei runga i te rangimārie, kāhore he wehi,

kāhore hoki a te Atua patu ki a rātou.

10 E kaha ana tāna pūru ki te ekeeke, kāhore hoki e hē;

ka whānau tāna kau, kāhore hoki he whakatahe.

11 E tukua mai ana e rātou ā rātou kōhungahunga ānō he kāhui hipi,

e pekepeke ana ā rātou tamariki.

12 He hunga hāpai rātou i te timipera, i te hāpa,

e koa ana ki te tangi o te ōkana.

13 Ō rātou rā pau tonu i runga i te āhuareka,

kitea rawatia ake kua heke ki te pō.

14 Koia rātou i mea ai ki te Atua, ‘Mawehe atu i a mātou;

kāhore hoki ō mātou hiahia kia mātau ki ōu ara.

15 He aha rā te Runga Rawa e mahi ai mātou ki a ia?

He aha hoki te rawa ki a mātou ki te īnoi ki a ia?’

16 Nanā, kāhore he pai mō rātou i ō rātou ringa ake:

matara atu i ahau te whakaaro o te hunga kino.

17 "Pēhea te maha o ngā matenga o te rama a te hunga kino?

O ngā pānga mai anō hoki o tō rātou aituā ki a rātou?

O te tūwhanga mai a te Atua i ngā mamae i a ia e riri ana?

18 E rite ai rātou ki te kakau wīti i mua i te hau,

ki te pāpapa e kāhakina atu ana e te paroro?

19 E mea ana koutou, ‘E rongoātia ana e te Atua tōna kino hei mea mō āna tamariki.’

Māna e utu tērā ki a ia tonu, kia mōhio ai ia.

20 Tukua kia kite ōna ake kanohi i tōna hunanga,

ā, tukua ia kia inu i te riri o te Kaha Rawa.

21 He aha hoki tana manako ki tōna whare i muri i a ia,

ka poroa hoki ōna marama i waenga?

22 "E whakaako ianei tētahi i te Atua ki te mātauranga?

Ko te kaiwhakawā hoki ia mō te hunga whakakake.

23 Tēnei tangata, mate iho ia, pakari rawa anō hoki ōna kaha,

āta takoto ana āna mea katoa, kāhore hoki he raruraru.

24 Kī tonu ōna ū i te waiū,

ā, e mākūkū ana ōna wheua i te hinu.

25 Mate iho hoki tērā tangata, kawa tonu tōna wairua,

kāhore hoki he pai hei kai māna.

26 Ka takoto ngātahi rāua ki te puehu,

ā, ko te iro hei hīpoki mō rāua.

27 "Nanā, e mōhio ana ahau ki ō koutou whakaaro,

ki tā koutou ngārahu nanakia anō hoki mōku.

28 E kī ana hoki koutou, ‘Kei hea te whare o te rangatira?

Kei hea hoki te tēneti i noho ai te hunga kino?’

29 Kāhore ianei koutou i ui ki te hunga e haere atu ana i te ara?

Kāhore rānei koutou i mōhio ki ā rātou tohu?

30 Kei te rongoā nei hoki te tangata kino mō te rā o te whakangaro;

ka whakaputaina rātou i te rā o te riri.

31 Ko wai e whakaatu i tōna ara ki tōna aroaro?

Ko wai hoki hei hoatu i te utu mō tāna mahi ki a ia?

32 Heoi, ka kawea ia ki te urupā;

kei te pūranga he wāhi mōna.

33 Ka reka ki a ia ngā pōkuru o te awaawa,

ka whai mai anō hoki ngā tāngata katoa i a ia;

e kore nei hoki e taea te tatau te hunga i mua i a ia.

34 "He pēhea rā tā koutou whakamārie tinihanga i ahau,

e toe nā hoki te hē i roto i ā koutou kupu e whakahoki mai nā?"