Job's Reply to Bildad
You Have Really Been Helpful
1 Job said:
2 You have really been helpful
to someone weak and weary.
3 You have given great advice
and wonderful wisdom
to someone truly in need.
4 How can anyone possibly speak
with such understanding?
5 Remember the terrible trembling
of those in the world of the dead
below the mighty ocean.
6 Nothing in that land
of death and destruction
is hidden from God,
7 who hung the northern sky
and suspended the earth
on empty space.
8 God stores water in clouds,
but they don't burst,
9 and he wraps them around
the face of the moon.
10 On the surface of the ocean,
God has drawn a boundary line
between light and darkness.
11 And columns supporting the sky
tremble at his command.
12 By his power and wisdom,
God conquered the force
of the mighty ocean.
13 The heavens became bright
when he breathed,
and the escaping sea monster
died at his hands.
14 These things are merely a whisper
of God's power at work.
How little we would understand
if this whisper
ever turned into thunder!
Ījabs: neizmērojama ir Dieva varenība
1 Ījabs atbildēja, sacīdams:
2 “Kā līdzēji tam, kam stipruma nav?
Kā balstīji elkoni, kas bez spēka?
3 Ko mācīji tādam, kam gudrības nav,
vai sapratni tam papilnam devi?
4 Kam tu sacīji šos vārdus?
Un kam pieder dvaša, kas nāk no tevis?
5 Mirušo gari dreb zem ūdeņiem
un tie, kas tur mīt,
6 šeols kails stāv viņa priekšā,
un nav apsega bezdibenim.
7 Viņš izpleš ziemeļus tukšumam pāri,
pakar zemi pār neko.
8 Viņš sasien ūdeni padebešos,
ka nesairst mākoņi zem tā.
9 Viņš aizklāj savu troni,
aizsedz tam mākoni priekšā.
10 Viņš robežu novilcis ūdeņiem pāri,
kur gaisma mijas ar tumsu.
11 Debesu balsti dreb un iztrūkstas,
kad viņš rājas.
12 Ar savu spēku viņš sašķeļ jūru,
ar saprātu satriec lepno.
13 No viņa elpas debess top tīra,
viņa roka nodur žiglo čūsku.
14 Redzi, tās viņa mazākās gaitas –
tikai čukstus dzirdam no viņa,
kurš tad sapratīs viņa varas pērkonus!”
