Jó 9

1 Then Job answered,

2 "Truly I know that it is so,

but how can man be just with God?

3 If he is pleased to contend with him,

he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

4 God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength.

Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

5 He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it,

when he overturns them in his anger.

6 He shakes the earth out of its place.

Its pillars tremble.

7 He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise,

and seals up the stars.

8 He alone stretches out the heavens,

and treads on the waves of the sea.

9 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,

and the rooms of the south.

10 He does great things past finding out;

yes, marvelous things without number.

11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him.

He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.

12 Behold, he snatches away.

Who can hinder him?

Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

13 "God will not withdraw his anger.

The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

14 How much less will I answer him,

and choose my words to argue with him?

15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him.

I would make supplication to my judge.

16 If I had called, and he had answered me,

yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

17 For he breaks me with a storm,

and multiplies my wounds without cause.

18 He will not allow me to catch my breath,

but fills me with bitterness.

19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty!

If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me.

Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

21 I am blameless.

I don’t respect myself.

I despise my life.

22 "It is all the same.

Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

23 If the scourge kills suddenly,

he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.

He covers the faces of its judges.

If not he, then who is it?

25 "Now my days are swifter than a runner.

They flee away. They see no good.

26 They have passed away as the swift ships,

as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,

I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’

28 I am afraid of all my sorrows.

I know that you will not hold me innocent.

29 I will be condemned.

Why then do I labor in vain?

30 If I wash myself with snow,

and cleanse my hands with lye,

31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch.

My own clothes will abhor me.

32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him,

that we should come together in judgment.

33 There is no umpire between us,

that might lay his hand on us both.

34 Let him take his rod away from me.

Let his terror not make me afraid;

35 then I would speak, and not fear him,

for I am not so in myself.

Kore kau he Kaitakawaenga

1 Nā, ka whakahoki a Hopa, ka mea:

2 "E mōhiotia ana anō tēnei e ahau;

engari mā te aha ka tika ai te tangata ki te Atua?

3 Ki te pai ia ki te totohe ki a ia,

kāhore he kupu kotahi o roto i te mano e taea e ia te whakahoki ki a ia.

4 He ngākau mōhio ia, he pakari tōna kaha;

ko wai e whakauaua ki a ia, ā, e whiwhi i te pai?

5 E nekehia ana e ia ngā maunga, tē mōhio rātou;

hurihia ake e ia i a ia e riri ana.

6 E whakangāueuetia ana e ia te whenua,

e nekehia atu ana i tōna wāhi, wiri ana ōna pou.

7 E kōrero nei ki te rā, ā, kore ake e whiti;

hīritia pūtia iho e ia ngā whetū,

8 ko ia nei anake hei hora i ngā rangi,

hei takahi i runga i ngā ngaru o te moana.

9 Nāna nei i hanga a Aketura, a Tautoru,

a Matariki, me ngā rūma i te tonga.

10 Nāna nei i mahi ngā mea nunui, e kore nei e taea te rapu atu,

āe rā ngā mea whakamīharo, e kore nei e taea te tatau.

11 Inā tonu ia e haere atu nei, ā, kāhore ahau i kite;

ka pahemo atu hoki ia, ā, kāhore ahau e mātau ki a ia.

12 Nanā, ka hopu ia i tāna i aru ai, mā wai ia e ārai?

Ko wai hei kī atu ki a ia, ‘E aha ana koe?’

13 "E kore te Atua e whakahoki iho i tōna riri;

e piko ana ki raro i a ia ngā kaiāwhina o Rahapa.

14 Ā, kia whakahoki kupu anō ahau ki a ia,

kia whiriwhiri kupu anō māku ki a ia?

15 Ahakoa he tika ahau, e kore ahau e whakahoki kupu atu;

engari ka īnoi ahau ki tōku kaiwhakawā.

16 Me i karanga atu ahau, ā, whakahokia mai ai e ia te kupu ki ahau,

kīhai ahau i whakaae tērā kua whakarongo mai ia ki tōku reo.

17 E āki ana hoki ia i ahau ki te tūpuhi,

e whakanui takekore ana hoki i ōku mate.

18 Kāhore ahau e tukua e ia kia tā tōku manawa;

otiia whakakīia ana e ia tōku wairua ki te kawa.

19 Ki te kōrero tātou mō te kaha o te hunga pakari, nanā, kei reira ia!

Ā, ki te mea he whakawā, ko wai rā hei whakatakoto i te tāima mōku?

20 "Ahakoa he tika ahau mā tōku māngai anō ahau e whakahē;

ahakoa he tikanga tapatahi tāku,

mā reira anō e whakaatu tōku ngaunga kētanga.

21 He tapatahi ahau; kāhore ahau e whakaaro ki ahau anō;

e whakahāwea ana ahau ki tōku ora.

22 He kotahi tonu ēnā; koia ahau ka mea,

e whakamōtītia ana e ia te tapatahi rāua ko te kino.

23 Nā, ka whakamate tata nei te whiu,

he kata tāna ki te whakamātautauranga o te hunga harakore.

24 Kua hoatu te whenua ki te ringa o te tangata kino;

e taupokina ana e ia ngā mata o ngā kaiwhakawā;

ki te mea ehara i a ia, tēnā ko wai?

25 "Nā, ko te hohoro o ōku rā, nui atu i tō te kaikawe pukapuka;

e rere ana, kāhore hoki e kite i te pai.

26 Kua pahemo, kua pērā me ngā kaipuke tere,

me te ēkara anō e topa iho ana ki tāna kai.

27 Ki te mea ahau, ‘Ka wareware ahau ki tāku tangi,

ka unuhia atu e ahau te pōuri o tōku mata, ā, ka mārama,’

28 e wehi ana ahau i ōku mamae katoa,

e mōhio ana ahau e kore ahau e meinga e koe he harakore.

29 Tērā hoki ahau e whakahēngia;

he aha ahau i whakangenge kau ai i ahau?

30 Ki te horoi ahau i ahau ki te hukarere,

ā, ka meinga ōku ringa kia mā rawa;

31 kātahi ahau ka rumakina e koe ki te poka,

ā, whakarihariha mai ana ōku kākahu ki ahau.

32 "Ehara hoki ia i te tangata, i te pēnei me ahau nei,

e whakahoki kupu ai ahau ki a ia,

e haere tahi ai māua ki te whakawā.

33 Kāhore he kaiwhakatikatika mō tā māua,

kāhore he tangata hei whakapā i tōna ringa ki a māua tahi.

34 Me tango atu e ia tāna patu i ahau,

ā, kaua hoki tana whakamataku e whakawehi i ahau.

35 Hei reira ahau ka kōrero, ā, kāhore e wehi i a ia;

kāhore hoki ahau e pērā roto i ahau."