Job 16
Biblija: suvremeni hrvatski prijevod
Job
16 Tada je Job odgovorio:
2 »Naslušao sam se mnogih takvih riječi.
Donosite mi muku, a ne utjehu!
3 Ima li kraja ovom blebetanju?
Što te muči da moraš govoriti?
4 Da ste na mome mjestu,
i ja bih mogao govoriti poput vas,
zasipati vas optužbama
i mahati glavom nad vama.
5 Ali moja bi vas usta ohrabrila,
utjeha s mojih usana umirila.
6 Ako i govorim, moja bol se ne smiruje,
ako pak zašutim, ona ne odlazi.
7 Da, Bože, ti si me iscrpio,
užasnuo si sve moje prijatelje.
8 Učinio si me slabim i mršavim
pa ljudi zbog toga misle da sam kriv.
9 Bog u svom gnjevu nasrće na mene,
trga me i na mene škrguće zubima.
Moj protivnik pogledom me probada.
10 Ljudi su na mene razjapili usta,
prezirno me šamaraju
i protiv mene se udružuju.
11 Bog me predao zlima
i bacio me u pandže zlikovaca.
12 Mirno sam živio, a on me skršio,
za vrat me zgrabio i zdrobio.
Kao metu me postavio.
13 Opkolili me njegovi strijelci.
Bez milosti mi srce probada
i moju utrobu na zemlju prosipa.
14 Ponovo i ponovo on me napada,
kao ratnik na mene juriša.
15 Tkaninu za žalovanje zašio sam na svoju kožu
i svoj ponos zakopao u prašinu.
16 Lice mi je crveno od plača,
sjena smrti na kapke mi pala.
17 Iako, nema nasilja na mojim rukama
i nevina je moja molitva.
18 O, zemljo, ne skrivaj nepravdu što mi je učinjena.[a]
Neka se čuje vapaj moje krvi za pravdom!
19 Već se sigurno čuje na nebu,
gdje svjedoči za moju obranu.
20 Moj vapaj za mene govori pred Bogom
dok u muci čekam njegov odgovor.
21 Neka iznese moj slučaj pred Boga,
kao što se čovjek zauzima za prijatelja.
22 Još samo koja godina
i otići ću na put bez povratka.
Footnotes
- 16,18 Doslovno: »Zemljo, ne pokrivaj moju krv«. Vidi Post 4,10-11.
Job 16
English Standard Version
Job Replies: Miserable Comforters Are You
16 Then Job answered and said:
2 “I have heard (A)many such things;
(B)miserable comforters are you all.
3 Shall (C)windy words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
4 I also could speak as you do,
if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you
and (D)shake my head at you.
5 I could strengthen you with my mouth,
and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
6 “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,
and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
7 Surely now God has worn me out;
(E)he has[a] made desolate all my company.
8 And he has shriveled me up,
which is (F)a witness against me,
and my (G)leanness has risen up against me;
it testifies to my face.
9 He has (H)torn me in his wrath (I)and hated me;
he has (J)gnashed his teeth at me;
my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
10 Men have (K)gaped at me with their mouth;
they have (L)struck me insolently on the cheek;
they (M)mass themselves together against me.
11 God gives me up to the ungodly
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart;
he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his (N)target;
13 his (O)archers surround me.
He slashes open my kidneys (P)and does not spare;
he (Q)pours out my gall on the ground.
14 He breaks me with (R)breach upon breach;
he (S)runs upon me like a warrior.
15 I have sewed (T)sackcloth upon my skin
and have laid (U)my strength (V)in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping,
and on my eyelids is (W)deep darkness,
17 although there is no (X)violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
18 “O earth, (Y)cover not my blood,
and let my (Z)cry find no resting place.
19 Even now, behold, my (AA)witness is in heaven,
and he who testifies for me is (AB)on high.
20 My friends (AC)scorn me;
my eye pours out tears to God,
21 that he would (AD)argue the case of a man with God,
as[b] a son of man does with his neighbor.
22 For when a few years have come
I shall go the way (AE)from which I shall not return.
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