Jó 5

1 "Call now; is there any who will answer you?

To which of the holy ones will you turn?

2 For resentment kills the foolish man,

and jealousy kills the simple.

3 I have seen the foolish taking root,

but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

4 His children are far from safety.

They are crushed in the gate.

Neither is there any to deliver them,

5 whose harvest the hungry eat up,

and take it even out of the thorns.

The snare gapes for their substance.

6 For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust,

neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

7 but man is born to trouble,

as the sparks fly upward.

8 "But as for me, I would seek God.

I would commit my cause to God,

9 who does great things that can’t be fathomed,

marvelous things without number;

10 who gives rain on the earth,

and sends waters on the fields;

11 so that he sets up on high those who are low,

those who mourn are exalted to safety.

12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty,

so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness;

the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

14 They meet with darkness in the day time,

and grope at noonday as in the night.

15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth,

even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

16 So the poor has hope,

and injustice shuts her mouth.

17 "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects.

Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

18 For he wounds and binds up.

He injures and his hands make whole.

19 He will deliver you in six troubles;

yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

20 In famine he will redeem you from death;

in war, from the power of the sword.

21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,

neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

22 You will laugh at destruction and famine,

neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

23 For you will be allied with the stones of the field.

The animals of the field will be at peace with you.

24 You will know that your tent is in peace.

You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

25 You will know also that your offspring*5:25 or, seed will be great,

your offspring as the grass of the earth.

26 You will come to your grave in a full age,

like a shock of grain comes in its season.

27 Behold, we have researched it. It is so.

Hear it, and know it for your good."

Ka Whakatika tonu a Eripata

1 "Tēnā rā, karanga; ka whakaō rānei tētahi ki a koe?

Ā, ka anga atu koe ki a wai o te hunga tapu?

2 E patua ana hoki te kūware e te āritarita,

e whakamatea ana te whakaarokore e te hae.

3 I kite ahau i te kūware e hou ana ōna pakiaka;

kitea rawatia ake kua kangā e ahau tōna nohoanga.

4 Kei tawhiti atu āna tama i te ora,

mongamonga noa rātou i te kūwaha,

kāhore hoki he kaiwhakaora.

5 Ko āna hua ka kainga e te tangata matekai,

ka riro i a ia ahakoa i roto i te tātarāmoa,

ā, ka hāmama te māhanga ki ō rātou rawa.

6 Nā, e kore te hē e puta ake i te puehu,

e kore anō te raruraru e tupu ake i te oneone;

7 i whānau te tangata ki te raruraru,

tōna rite kei ngā korakora e rere nei whakarunga.

8 "Ko ahau ia ka rapu i tā te Atua;

me tuku atu tāku kōrero ki te Atua.

9 E mahi nei i ngā mea nunui e kore nei e taea te rapu atu,

i ngā mea whakamīharo e kore nei e taea te tatau.

10 E hōmai nei i te ua ki te mata o te whenua,

e unga nei i te wai ki te mata o ngā pārae;

11 e whakanoho nei i te hunga iti ki te wāhi tiketike,

ā, whakanekehia ake ana te hunga pōuri ki te ora.

12 E haukoti nei i ngā whakaaro o te hunga tinihanga,

tē taea e ō rātou ringa tā rātou i mea ai.

13 Mau ake i a ia te hunga whakaaro i tō rātou tinihanga:

pororaru iho ngā whakaaro o te hunga kotiti kē.

14 I te awatea nei, tūtaki ana rātou ki te pōuri;

whāwhā ana rātou i te poutūmārōtanga, ānō ko te pō.

15 Otiia, e whakaorangia ana e ia te rawakore i te hoari, i tō rātou māngai,

i te ringa anō o te tangata kaha.

16 Ka ai anō he tūmanakohanga atu mō te ware;

kokopi tonu ia te māngai o te kino.

17 "Nanā, ka hari te tangata e ākona ana e te Atua;

nā, kaua e whakahāwea ki te papaki a te Kaha Rawa.

18 He whakamamae hoki tāna, he takai anō;

e patu ana ia, ā, ko ōna ringa anō hei whakaora.

19 E ono ngā matenga e whakaora ai ia i a koe;

ahakoa e whitu, e kore te hē e pā ki a koe.

20 I te matekai ka hokona koe e ia kei mate;

i te tatauranga anō, kei pāngia e te hoari.

21 Ka huna koe i te whiu a te arero,

e kore anō koe e wehi i te whakangaromanga ina tae mai.

22 E kata anō koe ki te whakangaromanga rāua ko te hemokai;

e kore hoki koe e wehi i ngā kīrehe o te whenua.

23 Nō te mea ka takoto tāu kawenata ki ngā kōhatu o te pārae;

ka mau anō tā koutou rongo ko ngā kīrehe o te pārae.

24 Ka mōhio anō koe e tū ana tōu tēneti i te āionuku,

ka hāereere anō koe ki tōu nohoanga, tē ai he hara.

25 Ka mōhio anō koe he nui ōu uri,

he pērā anō tōu whānau me te tarutaru o te whenua.

26 Ka āta rite ōu tau ina tae koe ki te urupā,

ka pērā anō me te pūranga wīti e hikitia ake ana i tōna wā e rite ai.

27 "Nanā, tēnei, he mea rapu nā mātou, ko te mea tika hoki ia;

whakarangona mai, ka mōhio iho hei pai mōu."