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

¹Učinil som smluvu so svojimi očima, a čo by som mal hľadieť na pannu?

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

²A jaký je podiel od Boha shora? Alebo jaké dedičstvo od Všemohúceho s výsostí?

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

³Či nie zahynutie nešľachetnému a pomsta činiteľom neprávosti?

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

⁴Či on azda nevidí mojich ciest? A počíta všetky moje kroky?

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

⁵Jestli som chodil s márnosťou, a jestli moja noha spiechala ku ľsti,

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

⁶nech ma odváži na váhe spravedlivosti a tak nech pozná Bôh moju bezúhonnosť.

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

⁷Jestli sa môj krok odchýlil s cesty, a moje srdce odišlo za mojimi očima, a jestli ľpí na mojich rukách nejaká škvrna;

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

⁸vtedy nech sejem, a iný nech jie, a moje potomstvo nech je vykorenené.

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

⁹Jestli sa dalo zvábiť moje srdce k cudzej žene, alebo jestli som úkladil pri dveriach svojho blížneho,

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

¹⁰vtedy nech melie moja žena inému, a nech sa zohýňajú nad ňou iní.

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

¹¹Lebo je to mrzkosť a je to neprávosť pred sudcov;

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

¹²lebo je to oheň, ktorý žerie až do zahynutia a vykorenil by všetku moju úrodu.

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

¹³Keby som bol opovrhol súdom svojho sluhu alebo svojej dievky, keď sa pravotili so mnou,

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

¹⁴čo by som bol urobil, keby bol povstal silný Bôh a keby to bol vyhľadával, čo by som mu bol odpovedal?

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

¹⁵Či azda ten, ktorý mňa učinil v živote matky, neučinil i jeho? A či nás oboch neutvoril jeden a ten istý v lone matky?

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

¹⁶Ak som uňal z toho, čo si priali chudobní, a dal som hynúť očiam vdovy

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

¹⁷a jedol som sám svoju skyvu, a nejedla z nej i sirota -

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;)

¹⁸Lebo veď mi rástla od mojej mladosti jako otcovi, a od života svojej matky som ju vodil, vdovu -;

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

¹⁹ak som videl hynúceho bez rúcha a díval som sa na toho, kto nemal čím sa odiať, na chudobného;

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

²⁰ak mi nedobrorečily jeho bedrá, a nehrial sa zo strihu mojich oviec;

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

²¹ak som sa zahnal svojou rukou na sirotu, pretože som videl v bráne svoju pomoc;

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

²²nech odpadne moje plece od svojeho väzu, a moje rameno nech sa vylomí zo svojho kĺbu!

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

²³Lebo išiel na mňa strach pred zkazou silného Boha, a pre jeho velebnosť nemohol som vykonať takú vec.

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

²⁴Ak som položil zlato za svoju nádej a povedal som čistému zlatu: Moje dúfanie;

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

²⁵ak som sa radoval tomu, že mám veľa majetku, a že moja ruka získala tak mnoho;

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

²⁶ak som hľadel na svetlo slnka, že svieti, a na mesiac, ako ta ide spanile,

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

²⁷a moje srdce sa dalo tajne zviesť, a moja ruka im posielala bozky mojich úst -

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

²⁸Aj to by bola bývala neprávosť pred sudcu, lebo tak by som bol zaprel silného Boha hore -,

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

²⁹ak som sa radoval záhube svojho nenávistníka a bol som vzrušený radosťou, že ho stihlo zlé -

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

³⁰Ale nedal som hrešiť svojim ústam kliatbou žiadať jeho dušu -,

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

³¹ak nehovorili ľudia môjho stánu, kde kto je vraj, kto by sa nebol najedol jeho mäsa?!

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

³²Pohostín nenocoval vonku; svoje dvere som otváral na cestu -,

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

³³ak som prikrýval svoje prestúpenie, ako robieva človek, skrývajúc svoju neprávosť vo svojom lone,

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, ...

³⁴keď som sa azda bál veľkého davu, a desilo ma opovrženie rodín, a mlčal som nevychádzajúc zo dverí -

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

³⁵Oj, aby som mal toho, kto by ma vypočul! Tu hľa, je moje znamenie! Nech mi odpovie Všemohúci! A písmo aby som mal, ktoré napísal môj protivník!

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

³⁶Áno, vzal by som ho na svoje plece a ovinul by som si ho sťa korunu!

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

³⁷Oznámim mu počet svojich krokov a priblížim sa mu jako knieža -,

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

³⁸ak volá proti mne moja zem a spolu plačú jej brázdy;

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

³⁹ak som jedol jej úrodu bez peňazí, a pre mňa musela vzdychať duša jej držiteľov:

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

⁴⁰miesto pšenice nech vzíde tŕnie a miesto jačmeňa plevel. Dokončili sa slová Jobove.