Job 35
1 Elihu nastavi svoju besjedu i reče:
Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
2 “Zar ti misliš da pravo svoje braniš, da pravednost pred Bogom dokazuješ,
Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?
3 kada mu kažeš: 'Što ti je to važno, i ako griješim, što ti činim time?'
For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4 Na sve to ja ću odgovorit' tebi i prijateljima tvojim ujedno.
I will answer you, and your companions with you.
5 Po nebu se obazri i promatraj! Gledaj oblake: od tebe su viši!
Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
6 Ako griješiš, što si mu uradio, prijestupom svojim što si mu zadao?
If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?
7 Ako si prav, što si dodao njemu i što iz ruke tvoje on dobiva?
If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
8 Opakost tvoja tebi slične pogađa i pravda tvoja čovjeku koristi.
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
9 Ali kad ispod teškog stenju jarma, kad vapiju na nasilje moćnika,
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10 nitko ne kaže: 'Gdje je Bog, moj tvorac, koji noć pjesmom veselom ispunja,
But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
11 umnijim nas od zvijeri zemskih čini i mudrijima od ptica nebeskih?'
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12 Tad vapiju, al' on ne odgovara poradi oholosti zlikovaca.
There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Ali kako je isprazno tvrditi da Bog njihove ne čuje vapaje, da pogled na njih ne svraća Svesilni!
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 A kamoli tek kada ti govoriš: 'On ne vidi mene, parnica moja pred njime stoji, a ja na nj još čekam.'
Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.
15 Ili: 'Njegova srdžba ne kažnjava, nimalo on za prijestupe ne mari.'
But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
16 Isprazno tada otvara Job usta i besjede gomila nerazumne.”
Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
