Iov 13
Cornilescu 1924 - Revised 2010, 2014
13 Iată, ochiul meu a văzut toate acestea,
urechea mea a auzit şi a luat seama.
2 Ce(A) ştiţi voi, ştiu şi eu,
nu sunt mai prejos decât voi.
3 Dar(B) vreau să vorbesc acum Celui Atotputernic,
vreau să-mi apăr pricina înaintea lui Dumnezeu.
4 Căci voi sunteţi nişte făuritori de minciuni,
sunteţi cu toţii nişte doctori(C) de nimic.
5 O, de aţi fi tăcut,
ce înţelepciune(D) aţi fi arătat!
6 Acum, ascultaţi, vă rog, apărarea mea
şi luaţi aminte la răspunsul buzelor mele!
7 Vreţi să vorbiţi lucruri nedrepte din dragoste pentru Dumnezeu
şi să spuneţi minciuni ca să-L apăraţi?
8 Vreţi să ţineţi cu El
şi să faceţi pe apărătorii lui Dumnezeu?
9 Dacă vă va cerceta, El vă va găsi bine oare?
Sau vreţi să-L înşelaţi cum înşelaţi pe un om?
10 Nu, nu; ci El vă va osândi
dacă în ascuns nu lucraţi decât părtinindu-L pe El.
11 Nu vă înfricoşează măreţia Lui?
Şi nu cade groaza Lui peste voi?
12 Părerile voastre sunt păreri de cenuşă,
întăriturile voastre sunt întărituri de lut.
13 Tăceţi, lăsaţi-mă, vreau să vorbesc!
Întâmplă-mi-se ce mi s-ar întâmpla.
14 Îmi voi lua carnea(E) în dinţi
şi îmi voi pune viaţa(F) în joc.
15 Da, mă va ucide(G): n-am nimic de nădăjduit;
dar îmi(H) voi apăra purtarea în faţa Lui.
16 Chiar şi lucrul acesta poate sluji la scăparea mea,
căci un nelegiuit nu îndrăzneşte să vină înaintea Lui.
17 Ascultaţi, ascultaţi cuvintele mele,
luaţi aminte la cele ce voi spune.
18 Iată-mă sunt gata să-mi apăr pricina,
căci ştiu că am dreptate.
19 Are cineva(I) ceva de spus împotriva mea?
Atunci tac şi vreau să mor.
20 Numai(J) două lucruri fă-mi
şi nu mă voi ascunde de Faţa Ta:
21 Trage-Ţi(K) mâna de pe mine şi
nu mă mai tulbura cu groaza Ta.
22 Apoi, cheamă-mă, şi-Ţi voi răspunde
sau lasă-mă să vorbesc eu şi răspunde-mi Tu!
23 Câte fărădelegi şi păcate am făcut?
Arată-mi călcările de Lege şi păcatele mele.
24 Pentru ce Îţi(L) ascunzi Faţa
şi mă iei drept(M) vrăjmaş?
25 Vrei să(N) loveşti o frunză suflată de vânt?
Vrei să urmăreşti un pai uscat?
26 Pentru ce să mă loveşti cu suferinţe amare
şi să mă pedepseşti(O) pentru greşeli din tinereţe?
27 Pentru ce să-mi pui(P) picioarele în butuci,
să-mi pândeşti toate mişcările,
să pui hotar paşilor mei,
28 când trupul meu cade în putrezire,
ca o haină mâncată de molii?
Job 13
Names of God Bible
Job Continues: You Are Not Listening to Me
13 “My eye has certainly seen all of this!
My ear has heard and understood it.
2 After all, I know it as well as you do.
I am not inferior to you.
3 However, I want to speak to Shadday,
and I wish to argue my case in front of El.
4 But you are smearing me with lies.
All of you are worthless physicians.
5 I wish you would keep silent.
For you, that would be wisdom.
6 Please listen to my argument,
and pay attention to my plea.
Your Wisdom Misrepresents God
7 “Will you talk wickedly for El
and talk deceitfully on his behalf?
8 Will you favor him
as if you were arguing in court on El’s behalf?
9 Will it go well when he cross-examines you?
Will you try to trick him as one mortal tricks another?
10 Will he really defend you
if you secretly favor him?
11 Doesn’t his majesty terrify you?
Doesn’t the fear of him fall upon you?
12 “Your recollections are worthless proverbs.[a]
Your answers are absolutely useless.[b]
13 Be quiet, because I want to speak.
Let whatever may happen to me happen!
14 I am biting off more than I can chew
and taking my life in my own hands.
15 If God would kill me, I would have no hope left.[c]
Nevertheless, I will defend my behavior to his face.
16 This also will be my salvation
because no godless person could face him.
Job Speaks to God
17 “Listen carefully to my words.
Hear my declaration.
18 I have prepared my case.
I know that I will be declared righteous.
19 Who can make a case against me?
If someone could, I’d be silent and die.
20 “Please don’t do two things to me
so that I won’t have to hide from you:
21 Stop oppressing me.
Don’t let your terror frighten me.
22 Then call, and I’ll answer.
Otherwise, I’ll speak, and you’ll answer me.
23 How many crimes and sins have I committed?
Make me aware of my disobedience and my sin.
24 Why do you hide your face from me and consider me your enemy?
25 Are you trying to make a fluttering leaf tremble
or trying to chase dry husks?
26 You write down bitter accusations against me.
You make me suffer for the sins of my youth.
27 You put my feet in shackles.
You follow my trail by engraving marks on the soles of my feet.
28 I am like worn-out wineskins,
like moth-eaten clothes.
Job 13
King James Version
13 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
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