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