Jó 31

1 "I made a covenant with my eyes;

how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

2 For what is the portion from God above,

and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous,

and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

4 Doesn’t he see my ways,

and count all my steps?

5 "If I have walked with falsehood,

and my foot has hurried to deceit

6 (let me be weighed in an even balance,

that God may know my integrity);

7 if my step has turned out of the way,

if my heart walked after my eyes,

if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

8 then let me sow, and let another eat.

Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

9 "If my heart has been enticed to a woman,

and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

10 then let my wife grind for another,

and let others sleep with her.

11 For that would be a heinous crime.

Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges,

12 for it is a fire that consumes to destruction,

and would root out all my increase.

13 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant

or of my female servant,

when they contended with me,

14 what then will I do when God rises up?

When he visits, what will I answer him?

15 Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him?

Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

16 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire,

or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

17 or have eaten my morsel alone,

and the fatherless has not eaten of it

18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,

I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing,

or that the needy had no covering;

20 if his heart hasn’t blessed me,

if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless,

because I saw my help in the gate;

22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade,

and my arm be broken from the bone.

23 For calamity from God is a terror to me.

Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

24 "If I have made gold my hope,

and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great,

and because my hand had gotten much;

26 if I have seen the sun when it shined,

or the moon moving in splendor,

27 and my heart has been secretly enticed,

and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth;

28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges,

for I would have denied the God who is above.

29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me,

or lifted up myself when evil found him

30 (I have certainly not allowed my mouth to sin

by asking his life with a curse);

31 if the men of my tent have not said,

‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

32 (the foreigner has not camped in the street,

but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

33 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions,

by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

34 because I feared the great multitude,

and the contempt of families terrified me,

so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

35 oh that I had one to hear me!

Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!

Let the accuser write my indictment!

36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder,

and I would bind it to me as a crown.

37 I would declare to him the number of my steps.

I would go near to him like a prince.

38 If my land cries out against me,

and its furrows weep together;

39 if I have eaten its fruits without money,

or have caused its owners to lose their life,

40 let briers grow instead of wheat,

and stinkweed instead of barley."

The words of Job are ended.

1 "Kua oti tāku kawenata ki ōku kanohi;

kia whakaaroaro ahau hei aha ki te kōtiro?

2 He aha tā te Atua wāhi e tuwha mai ai i runga?

He aha tā te Kaha Rawa taonga tupu i te wāhi tiketike?

3 He teka ianei he whakangaromanga mō te tangata kino,

he whiu mō ngā kaimahi o te hē?

4 He teka ianei e kitea ana e ia ōku ara,

e taua ana e ia ōku hīkoinga katoa?

5 "Ki te mea i haere ahau i runga i te tekateka noa,

ā, i hohoro tōku waewae ki te tinihanga –

6 kia pāunatia ahau i runga i te pāuna tika,

kia mōhio ai te Atua ki tōku tapatahi –

7 ki te mea i kotiti kē tōku hīkoinga i te ara,

ā, i whai tōku ngākau i ōku kanohi;

ā, ki te mea i mau te tongi ki ōku ringa;

8 kāti, ko ahau hei whakatō, ā, mā tētahi atu e kai;

āe rā, tukua ngā hua o tāku māra kia hūtia atu.

9 "Ki te mea i whakawairangitia tōku ngākau e te wahine,

ā, i whanga ahau i te tatau o tōku hoa;

10 heoi kia huri parāoa tāku wahine mā tētahi atu,

kia piko iho anō hoki ngā tāngata kē ki runga i a ia.

11 He kino rawa hoki tērā;

āe rā, he hē e tika ana kia whiua e ngā kaiwhakawā.

12 He ahi hoki tērā e kai ana ki te whakangaromanga rawa,

poto noa āku hua katoa.

13 "Ki te mea i whakahāweatia e ahau te whakawā

a tāku pononga tāne, a tāku pononga wahine,

i a rāua e totohe ana ki ahau;

14 ka pēhea rā ahau ina whakatika te Atua?

He aha tāku kupu e whakahoki ai ki a ia ina tae mai ia ki te titiro?

15 He teka rānei nā tōku kaihanga ia i hanga i roto i te kōpū?

Ā, nāna, nā te kotahi, i whai āhua ai māua i roto i te puku?

16 "Ki te mea i kaiponuhia e ahau tā ngā rawakore i hiahia ai,

ā, meinga ana e ahau ngā kanohi o te pouaru kia pau i te minamina;

17 ki te mea rānei i kainga tāku maramara e tōku kotahi,

ā, kīhai te pani i kai i tētahi wāhi –

18 he mea whakatupu ia nāku nō tōku taitamarikitanga rā anō me te mea ko tōna pāpā ahau;

ko te pouaru he mea ārahi nāku nō te kōpū rā anō o tōku whaea –

19 ki te mea i kite ahau i tētahi e tata ana ki te mate, he kore nō te kākahu,

ā, kāhore he uhi mō te rawakore;

20 ki te mea kīhai tōna hope i whakapai ki ahau,

ā, kīhai ia i mahana i ngā huruhuru o tāku kāhui;

21 ki te mea i ara tōku ringa hei pēhi i te pani,

i tōku kitenga he āwhina tērā mōku kei te kūwaha;

22 nā, kia marere atu tōku pokohiwi i roto i te peke,

kia whati te tākakau o tōku ringa.

23 Ko te whiu hoki a te Atua tāku i wehi ai;

kīhai hoki i taea e ahau te aha i tōna nui.

24 "Ki te mea i ū tōku whakaaro ki te kōura,

ā, i mea ahau ki te kōura parakore,

‘Ko koe tāku e whakawhirinaki atu ai’;

25 ki te mea i koa ahau ki te maha o ōku rawa,

ā, ki te nui o tā tōku ringa i whiwhi ai;

26 ki te mea i kite ahau i te rā e whiti ana,

i te marama rānei e haere ana i tōna tīahotanga;

27 ā, ka kūmea pukutia atu tōku ngākau,

ka kihia tōku ringa e tōku māngai;

28 nā, he kino tēnei hei whiunga mā ngā kaiwhakawā:

he teka hoki nāku ki te Atua i runga.

29 "Ki te mea i koa ahau ki te whakangaromanga o te tangata i kino ki ahau,

i whakaara ake rānei i ahau i te pānga o te hē ki a ia –

30 āe, kīhai ahau i tuku i tōku māngai kia hara,

kīhai i whai kia kangā tōna wairua –

31 ki te mea kāhore ngā tāngata o tōku tēneti i mea,

‘Tēnā koa te tangata kīhai nei i mākona i tōna kikokiko?’

32 Kīhai te manene i moe i waho;

i whakatuwheratia anō e ahau ōku tatau ki te tangata haere;

33 ki te mea i pērā ahau me Ārama, i hīpoki i ōku hē,

i huna i tōku kino ki roto ki tōku uma;

34 i wehi hoki ahau i te huihui nui,

i mataku ki te whakahāwea a ngā hapū,

ā, whakarongo kau ana, kīhai hoki i puta ki waho –

35 auē, me i whakarongo mai tētahi ki ahau!

Nanā, tēnei tāku tohu, mā te Kaha Rawa e whakahoki mai he kupu ki ahau!

Me i ahau noa te pukapuka i tuhituhia e tōku hoariri!

36 Inā, kua amohia e ahau i runga i tōku pokohiwi;

kua herea e ahau hei karauna mōku.

37 Kua whakaaturia e ahau ki a ia te maha o ōku hīkoinga;

rite tonu ki tā te rangatira tāku whakatata atu ki a ia.

38 "Ki te tangi tāku oneone, he whakahē ki ahau,

ki te uru anō ōna moa ki te auē,

39 ki te mea i kainga e ahau ōna hua he mea kīhai i utua,

ā, nāku rānei ōna ariki i mate ai,

40 nā, kia riro pū te wīti i te tātarāmoa,

te pārei i te taru kino."

Heoi anō ngā kōrero a Hopa.