Job 22
1 Potem je Elifáz Temánec odgovoril in rekel:
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 »Je lahko človek koristen Bogu kakor, je tisti, ki je moder, koristen samemu sebi?
“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
3 Mar je kakršenkoli užitek za Vsemogočnega, da si ti pravičen? Ali je to zanj dobiček, da delaš svoje poti popolne?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
4 Ali te bo grajal zaradi strahu pred teboj? Ali bo vstopil s teboj na sodbo?
Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
5 Mar ni tvoja zlobnost velika? In tvoje krivičnosti neskončne?
Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
6 Kajti zaman si vzel jamstvo od svojega brata in nagim slekel njihova oblačila.
For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 Nisi dal vode izmučenemu, da pije in pred lačnim si zadržal kruh.
You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
8 Toda kar se tiče mogočnega človeka. Imel je deželo in častitljiv človek je prebival v njej.
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
9 Vdove si odposlal prazne in lakti osirotelih so bili zlomljeni.
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10 Zato so zanke naokoli tebe in nenaden strah te nadleguje,
Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
11 ali tema, ki je ne moreš videti in pokriva te obilje vodá.
or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
12 Mar ni Bog na nebeški višavi? Glej višino zvezd, kako visoko so!
“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
13 In ti praviš: ›Kako Bog vé? Mar lahko sodi skozi temen oblak?‹
You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
14 Debeli oblaki so mu pokrivalo, da ne vidi in on hodi v nebeškem krogu.
Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’
15 Si označil staro pot, ki so jo pomendrali zlobneži?
Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
16 Ki so bili posekani izven časa, katerih temelj je bil preplavljen s poplavo;
who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
17 ki so Bogu rekli: ›Odidi od nas.‹ Kaj lahko stori zanje Vsemogočni?
who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
18 Vendar je njihove hiše napolnil z dobrimi stvarmi, toda nasvet zlobnega je daleč od mene.
Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19 Pravični to vidijo in so veseli in nedolžni se jim smejijo do norčevanja,
The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,
20 [rekoč]: »Glej, naše imetje ni uničeno, toda njihov ostanek použiva ogenj.«
saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’
21 Seznani se torej z njim in bodi miren in tako bo k tebi prišlo dobro.
“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.
22 Sprejmi, prosim te, postavo iz njegovih ust in njegove besede položi v svoje srce.
Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
23 Če se vrneš k Vsemogočnemu, boš izgrajen, krivičnost boš odstranil daleč od svojih šotorov.
If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
24 Potem boš kopičil zlato kakor prah in ofírsko zlato kakor kamne iz potokov.
Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
25 Da, Vsemogočni bo tvoja obramba in imel boš obilico srebra.
The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.
26 Kajti takrat boš imel svoje zadovoljstvo v Vsemogočnem in svoj obraz boš dvignil k Bogu.
For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.
27 Svojo molitev boš naredil k njemu in on te bo slišal in izpolnil boš svoje zaobljube.
You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.
28 Ti boš tudi odredil stvar in ta ti bo utrjena in svetloba bo sijala nad tvojimi potmi.
You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.
29 Kadar so možje ponižani, potem boš rekel: › Tam je povzdigovanje, ‹ in on bo rešil ponižno osebo.
When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.
30 Osvobodil bo otok nedolžnega in ta je osvobojen s čistostjo tvojih rok.«
He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”
