Jó 30

1 "But now those who are younger than I have me in derision,

whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me,

men in whom ripe age has perished?

3 They are gaunt from lack and famine.

They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes.

The roots of the broom tree are their food.

5 They are driven out from among men.

They cry after them as after a thief,

6 so that they live in frightful valleys,

and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

7 They bray among the bushes.

They are gathered together under the nettles.

8 They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men.

They were flogged out of the land.

9 "Now I have become their song.

Yes, I am a byword to them.

10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me,

and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

11 For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me;

and they have thrown off restraint before me.

12 On my right hand rise the rabble.

They thrust aside my feet.

They cast their ways of destruction up against me.

13 They mar my path.

They promote my destruction

without anyone’s help.

14 As through a wide breach they come.

They roll themselves in amid the ruin.

15 Terrors have turned on me.

They chase my honor as the wind.

My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

16 "Now my soul is poured out within me.

Days of affliction have taken hold of me.

17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me,

and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

18 My garment is disfigured by great force.

It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.

19 He has cast me into the mire.

I have become like dust and ashes.

20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me.

I stand up, and you gaze at me.

21 You have turned to be cruel to me.

With the might of your hand you persecute me.

22 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it.

You dissolve me in the storm.

23 For I know that you will bring me to death,

to the house appointed for all living.

24 "However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall?

Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

25 Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble?

Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

26 When I looked for good, then evil came.

When I waited for light, darkness came.

27 My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest.

Days of affliction have come on me.

28 I go mourning without the sun.

I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

29 I am a brother to jackals,

and a companion to ostriches.

30 My skin grows black and peels from me.

My bones are burned with heat.

31 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning,

and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

1 "Ināianei ia e kataina mai ana ahau

e te hunga tamariki rawa i ahau,

e te hunga kīhai nei ahau i whakaae

kia uru ō rātou mātua ki roto ki ngā kurī o tāku kāhui.

2 Āe rā, hei aha māku te kaha o ō rātou ringa?

He hanga pirau nei hoki tō rātou koroheketanga.

3 Tūpuhi ana rātou i te rawakore, i te hemokai;

e ngau ana rātou i te oneone pakapaka,

i roto i te pōuritanga o te tūhea, o te ururua.

4 E whawhaki ana rātou i ngā marou i roto o ngā rākau ririki;

ā, ko ngā pakiaka hunipa hei kai mā rātou.

5 He mea pei atu rātou i roto i ngā tāngata;

e kārangarangatia ana rātou ānō he tāhae.

6 Me noho rawa atu rātou i ngā kapiti o ngā awaawa,

i ngā waro o te whenua, i ngā kāmaka.

7 Tangi ā-kāihe ana rātou i roto i ngā rākau ririki;

huihuia ana rātou ki raro i ngā ongaonga.

8 He tamariki rātou nā ngā kūware,

āe rā, he tamariki nā te hunga ingoakore;

he hunga i patua atu i runga i te whenua.

9 "Ināianei ia kua waiho ahau hei waiata mā rātou,

āe, hei whakatauki mā rātou.

10 E whakarihariha mai ana rātou ki ahau,

e neke rawa atu ana i ahau,

ā, kāhore e kaiponuhia e rātou te hūware ki tōku mata.

11 Kua oti hoki tāna aho te wewete e ia, ā e whakatupuria kinotia ana ahau e ia,

ā, kua tukua e rātou te paraire i tōku aroaro.

12 I te taha ki matau ka ara te marea;

tāia ana e rātou ōku waewae,

ā, ākina ana ngā ara o ā rātou whakangaromanga ki ahau.

13 E taka kino ana rātou i tōku ara,

e whakatupu ana i te hē mōku,

ā, kāhore he hoa mahi mō rātou.

14 Rite tonu ki te wai nui e pakaru mai ana tō rātou haerenga mai;

i taua whakangaromanga nei, huri mai ana rātou ki runga ki ahau.

15 Kua tahuri mai ngā whakawehi ki ahau,

e aru ana rātou i tōku whakaaro rangatira ānō he hau;

ko te whakahauora mōku, pahemo kē ana ānō he kapua.

16 "Nā, ināianei kua maringi tōku wairua i roto i ahau;

mau pū ahau i ngā rā o te tangi.

17 I te pō e werohia ana ōku wheua i roto i ahau;

kāhore hoki he okiokinga o ngā mamae e ngau nei i ahau.

18 He kaha nui nō tōku mate i āhua kē ai tōku kākahu;

e awhi nei i ahau, e pēnei ana me te whiri o tōku koti.

19 Kua makā ahau e ia ki te paru kua rite ahau ki te puehu, ki te pungarehu.

20 "E tangi ana ahau ki a koe, heoi kāhore koe e whakaō mai ki ahau;

e tū ana, heoi ka titiro kau mai koe ki ahau.

21 Kua huri kē, kua kino tāu mahi ki ahau;

ko te kaha o tōu ringa kei te tūkino i ahau.

22 Kua hāpainga ake ahau e koe ki te hau,

ā, meinga ana tērā e koe hei hōiho mōku;

ā, whakamōtītia iho ahau e koe i roto i te tūpuhi.

23 E mōhio ana hoki ahau tērā ahau e kawea e koe ki te mate,

ki te whare hoki i whakaritea mō te hunga ora katoa.

24 "E kore anō ia tōna ringa e totoro iho ki te urupā;

ahakoa hei mate mōna ka mea ia ki te karanga,

he whakaaro ki ēnei mea.

25 Kīhai ianei ahau i tangi ki te tangata he mate nei tōna?

Kīhai rānei tōku wairua i pōuri ki te rawakore?

26 I ahau i tatari ai ki te pai, heoi kua tae mai te kino;

tūmanako atu ana ahau ki te mārama,

heoi kua tae mai te pōuri.

27 Ko ōku whēkau, me te mea e koropupū ana, tē āta takoto;

haukotia mai ana ahau e ngā rā o te tangi.

28 E hāereere pōuri ana ahau, kāhore he rā;

ko tāku whakatikanga ake i roto i te whakaminenga,

ka karanga āwhina.

29 Hei teina ahau ki ngā tarakona,

hei hoa mō ngā ruru.

30 Ko tōku kiri mangu tonu, e ngahoro ana i ahau,

kāia ana ōku wheua i te wera.

31 Nō reira i tahuri kē ai tāku hāpa ki te tangi,

me tāku ōkana ki te reo o te hunga e uhunga ana.