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¹I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?

²A što mi je Bog odozgo dosudio, kakva mi je baština od Svesilnoga?

²For what would have been [my] portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

³TÓa nije li nesreća za opakoga, a nevolja za one koji zlo čine?

³Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?

⁴Ne proniče li on sve moje putove, ne prebraja li on sve moje korake?

⁴Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?

⁵Zar sam ikad u društvu laži hodio, zar mi je noga k prijevari hitjela?

⁵If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,

⁶Nek' me na ispravnoj mjeri Bog izmjeri pa će uvidjeti neporočnost moju!

⁶(Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)

⁷Ako mi je korak s puta kad zašao, ako mi se srce za okom povelo, ako mi je ljaga ruke okaljala,

⁷If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;

⁸neka drugi jede što sam posijao, neka sve moje iskorijene izdanke!

⁸Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.

⁹Ako mi zavede srce žena neka, ako za vratima svog bližnjeg kad vrebah,

⁹If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,

¹⁰neka moja žena drugom mlin okreće, neka s drugim svoju podijeli postelju!

¹⁰Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

¹¹Djelo bestidno time bih počinio, zločin kojem pravda treba da presudi,

¹¹For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity [to be judged by] the judges:

¹²užego vatru što žeže do Propasti i što bi svu moju sažgala ljetinu.

¹²For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

¹³Ako kada prezreh pravo sluge svoga il' služavke, sa mnom kad su se parbili,

¹³If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,

¹⁴što ću učiniti kada Bog ustane? Što ću odvratit' kad račun zatraži?

¹⁴What then should I do when ùGod riseth up? and if he visited, what should I answer him?

¹⁵Zar nas oba on ne stvori u utrobi i jednako sazda u krilu majčinu?

¹⁵Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb?

¹⁶Ogluših li se na molbe siromaha ili rasplakah oči udovičine?

¹⁶If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

¹⁷Jesam li kada sam svoj jeo zalogaj a da ga nisam sa sirotom dijelio?

¹⁷Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,

¹⁸TÓa od mladosti k'o otac sam mu bio, vodio sam ga od krila materina!

¹⁸(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the [widow] from my mother's womb;)

¹⁹Zar sam beskućnika vidio bez odjeće ili siromaha kog bez pokrivača

¹⁹If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;

²⁰a da mu bedra ne blagosloviše mene kad se runom mojih ovaca ogrija?

²⁰If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

²¹Ako sam ruku na nevina podigao znajuć' da mi je na vratima branitelj,

²¹If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:

²²nek' se rame moje od pleća odvali i neka mi ruka od lakta otpadne!

²²[Then] let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!

²³Jer strahote Božje na mene bi pale, njegovu ne bih odolio veličanstvu.

²³For calamity from ùGod was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.

²⁴Zar sam u zlato pouzdanje stavio i rekao zlatu: 'Sigurnosti moja!'

²⁴If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!

²⁵Zar sam se veliku blagu radovao, bogatstvima koja su mi stekle ruke?

²⁵If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

²⁶Zar se, gledajući sunce kako blista i kako mjesec sjajni nebom putuje,

²⁶If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

²⁷moje srce dalo potajno zavesti da bih rukom njima poljubac poslao?

²⁷And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:

²⁸Grijeh bi to bio što za sudom vapije, jer Boga višnjega bih se odrekao.

²⁸This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the ùGod who is above.

²⁹Zar se obradovah nevolji dušmana i likovah kad ga je zlo zadesilo,

²⁹If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;

³⁰ja koji ne dadoh griješiti jeziku, proklinjući ga i želeći da umre?

³⁰(Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)

³¹Ne govorahu li ljudi mog šatora: 'TÓa koga nije on mesom nasitio'?

³¹If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat? --

³²Nikad nije stranac vani noćivao, putniku sam svoja otvarao vrata.

³²The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.

³³Zar sam grijehe svoje ljudima tajio, zar sam u grudima skrivao krivicu

³³If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

³⁴jer sam se plašio govorkanja mnoštva i strahovao od prezira plemenskog te sam mučao ne prelazeć' svoga praga?

³⁴Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, ...

³⁵O, kad bi koga bilo da mene sasluša! Posljednju sam svoju riječ ja izrekao: na Svesilnom je sad da mi odgovori! Nek' mi optužnicu napiše protivnik,

³⁵Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!

³⁶i ja ću je nosit' na svome ramenu, čelo ću njome k'o krunom uresit'.

³⁶Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me [as] a crown;

³⁷Dat ću mu račun o svojim koracima i poput kneza pred njega ću stupiti."

³⁷I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.

³⁸Ako je na me zemlja moja vikala, ako su s njom brazde njezine plakale;

³⁸If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;

³⁹ako sam plodove jeo ne plativši i ako sam joj ojadio ratare,

³⁹If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:

⁴⁰[40a] neka mjesto žita po njoj niče korov, a mjesto ječma nek' posvud kukolj raste! [40b] Konac riječi Jobovih.

⁴⁰Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.