¹Zavezo sem sklenil s svojimi očmi, in kako bi se bil smel ozirati po devici?

¹“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

²A kaj mi je delež Božji odzgoraj in dediščina Vsemogočnega iz visokosti?

²For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

³Ni li poguba nepravičniku in nesreča njim, ki delajo krivico?

³Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

⁴Ne vidi li On potov mojih in ne šteje li vseh korakov mojih?

⁴Doesn’t he see my ways, and number all my steps?

⁵Ako sem se pečal z ničemurnostjo in je noga moja hitela v prevaro

⁵“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

⁶(naj me pretehta na tehtnici pravičnosti, in spozna Bog brezmadežnost mojo!),

⁶(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

⁷ako je krenil korak moj s prave poti in mi je srce hodilo za očmi mojimi in se je madež prijel mojih rok:

⁷if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

⁸sejem naj, a drug uživaj, in kar sem zasadil, naj se s korenino izdere!

⁸then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

⁹Ako mi je znorelo srce za katero ženo in sem prežal pri vratih bližnjega svojega:

⁹“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

¹⁰naj žena moja melje drugemu in drugi naj se nadnjo sklanjajo!

¹⁰then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

¹¹Kajti to je ostudnost, to je pregreha, ki jo morajo kaznovati sodniki.

¹¹For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

¹²Kajti to je ogenj, ki požira do pogubljenja in ki bi s korenom izdrl vse, kar sem pridelal.

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

¹³Ako nisem spoštoval pravice hlapca svojega in dekle svoje, ko sta se prepirala z menoj:

¹³“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

¹⁴kaj si počnem, če vstane Bog mogočni, in ko bo preiskoval, kaj mu odgovorim?

¹⁴What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

¹⁵Ni li tudi njega Stvarnik moj naredil v materinem telesu, in ni li eden naju pripravil v materini otrobi?

¹⁵Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

¹⁶Ako sem ubožcem odrekel, kar so želeli, in povzročil, da so vdovine oči medlele,

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

¹⁷ali če sem jedel grižljaj svoj sam in ni tudi jedla od njega sirota

¹⁷or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

¹⁸(pač od mladosti moje je rasla pri meni kakor pri očetu in od materinega telesa sem bil vdovi vodnik);

¹⁸(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother’s womb);

¹⁹ako sem koga videl blizu pogina, ker ni imel oblačila, in potrebnega brez odeje,

¹⁹if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

²⁰in če me ni blagoslavljalo ledje njegovo in če se z volno mojih ovac ni ogreval,

²⁰if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

²¹ako sem vihtel roko proti siroti, ker sem videl, da mi je pomoč med vrati:

²¹if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

²²odpadi mi pleče od lopatice svoje in rama moja se odlomi od njene cevi!

²²then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

²³Zakaj pogubljenje od Boga mogočnega mi je bilo v strah in vpričo Njegove vzvišenosti nisem mogel ničesar.

²³For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.

²⁴Ako sem postavil zlato za nado svojo in čistemu zlatu rekel: Upanje moje!

²⁴“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

²⁵ako sem se veselil, da mi je bilo imetja veliko ter da je moja roka mnogo pridobila;

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

²⁶ako sem gledal solnce, kako je sijalo, in v diki plavajoči mesec,

²⁶if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

²⁷in srce mi je bilo skrivaj omamljeno, da sem njima v čast poljubljal roko svojo:

²⁷and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

²⁸tudi to bi bila pregreha, kazni vredna pred sodniki, ker bi bil zatajil Boga mogočnega, ki je gori!

²⁸this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

²⁹Ako sem se veselil nesreče sovražilca svojega in se vzradoval, ko ga je zadelo zlo

²⁹“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

³⁰(a nikoli nisem dopustil grlu svojemu grešiti, da bi bil s kletvijo zahteval smrt njegovo!),

³⁰(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

³¹ako niso rekali šatora mojega ljudje: Kdo bi se ne bil nasitil mesa njegove živine?

³¹if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

³²na ulicah ni bilo treba prenočevati tujcu, duri svoje sem odprl popotniku –

³²(the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

³³ako sem, kakor Adam, prikrival prestopke svoje, skrivaje v nedrijih krivdo svojo,

³³if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

³⁴ker sem se bal velike množice in me je strašilo zaničevanje rodovin, tako da sem molčal in nisem stopil ven iz duri...

³⁴because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

³⁵O da bi imel koga, ki bi me poslušal! (tu je moj podpis, Vsemogočni naj mi odgovori!) in da bi imel tožbenico, ki jo je pisal nasprotnik moj!

³⁵oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!

³⁶Res, na rami svoji bi jo nosil in si jo navezal kakor venec!

³⁶Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.

³⁷Korakov svojih število bi mu naznanil, pristopil bi k njemu kakor knez.

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

³⁸Ako vpije nad menoj njiva moja in brazde njene vse vkup jokajo;

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

³⁹ako sem užival njen pridelek, ne da bi bil plačal, in sem provzročil, da je njen posestnik izdahnil:tedaj mi rasti osatje namesto pšenice in namesto ječmena grd plevel! Konec je besedam Jobovim.

³⁹if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

⁴⁰tedaj mi rasti osatje namesto pšenice in namesto ječmena grd plevel! Konec je besedam Jobovim.

⁴⁰let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.