¹But Job answered and said,

¹Job progovori i reče:

²Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

²"Slušajte, slušajte dobro što ću reći, utjehu mi takvu barem udijelite.

³Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

³Otrpite da riječ jednu ja izrečem, kad završim, tad se rugajte slobodno.

⁴As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

⁴Zar protiv čovjeka dižem ja optužbu? Kako da strpljenje onda ne izgubim?

⁵Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

⁵Pogledajte na me: užas će vas spopast', rukom ćete svoja zakloniti usta;

⁶Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

⁶pomislim li na to, prestravim se i sam i čitavim svojim tad protrnem tijelom.

⁷Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

⁷Zašto na životu ostaju zlikovci i, što su stariji, moćniji bivaju?

⁸Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

⁸Potomstvo njihovo s njima napreduje a izdanci im se množe pred očima.

⁹Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

⁹Strah nikakav kuće njihove ne mori i šiba ih Božja ostavlja na miru.

¹⁰Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

¹⁰Njihovi bikovi plode pouzdano, krave im se tele i ne jalove se.

¹¹They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

¹¹K'o jagnjad djeca im slobodno skakuću, veselo igraju njihovi sinovi.

¹²They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

¹²Oni pjevaju uz harfe i bubnjeve i vesele se uz zvukove svirale.

¹³They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

¹³Dane svoje završavaju u sreći, u Podzemlje oni silaze spokojno.

¹⁴Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

¹⁴A govorili su Bogu: 'Ostavi nas, ne želimo znati za tvoje putove!

¹⁵What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

¹⁵TÓa tko je Svesilni da njemu služimo i kakva nam korist da ga zazivamo?'

¹⁶Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁶Zar svoju sreću u ruci ne imahu, makar do Njega ne drže ništa oni?

¹⁷How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

¹⁷Zar se luč opakog kada ugasila? Zar se na njega oborila nesreća? Zar mu u gnjevu svom On skroji sudbinu?

¹⁸They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

¹⁸Zar je kao slama na vjetru postao, kao pljeva koju vihor svud raznosi?

¹⁹God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

¹⁹Hoće l' ga kaznit' Bog u njegovoj djeci? Ne, njega nek' kazni da sam to osjeti!

²⁰His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

²⁰Vlastitim očima nek' rasap svoj vidi, neka se napije srdžbe Svesilnoga!

²¹For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

²¹TÓa što poslije smrti on za dom svoj mari kad će se presjeć' niz njegovih mjeseci?

²²Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

²²Ali tko će Boga učiti mudrosti, njega koji sudi najvišim bićima?

²³One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

²³Jedan umire u punom blagostanju, bez briga ikakvih, u potpunom miru,

²⁴His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

²⁴bokova od pretiline otežalih i kostiju sočne moždine prepunih.

²⁵And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

²⁵A drugi umire s gorčinom u duši, nikad nikakve ne okusivši sreće.

²⁶They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

²⁶Obojica leže zajedno u prahu, crvi ih jednako prekrivaju oba.

²⁷Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

²⁷O, znam dobro kakve vaše su namjere, kakve zlosti protiv mene vi snujete.

²⁸For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

²⁸Jer pitate: 'Gdje je kuća plemićeva, šator u kojem stanovahu opaki?'

²⁹Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

²⁹Niste li na cesti putnike pitali, zar njihovo svjedočanstvo ne primate:

³⁰That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

³⁰'Opaki je u dan nesreće pošteđen i u dan Božje jarosti veseo je.'

³¹Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

³¹Al' na postupcima tko će mu predbacit' i tko će mu vratit' što je počinio?

³²Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

³²A kad ga na kraju na groblje odnesu, na grobni mu humak postavljaju stražu.

³³The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

³³Lake su mu grude zemlje u dolini dok za njime ide čitavo pučanstvo.

³⁴How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

³⁴O, kako su vaše utjehe isprazne! Kakva su prijevara vaši odgovori!"