¹Tedaj odgovori Job in reče:

¹Then Job answered,

²Resnično, vem, da je tako; a kako more smrtni človek biti pravičen pred Bogom mogočnim?

²“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

³Ako bi se hotel pravdati ž Njim, Mu ne more odgovoriti ene na tisoč.

³If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

⁴Modrega je srca in presilne moči – kdo Mu je kdaj kljuboval in ni škode imel?

⁴God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

⁵On premakne gore, in nihče ne zapazi, da jih je prevrnil v jezi svoji.

⁵He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

⁶On strese zemljo ž njenega mesta, in stebri njeni se pretresejo.

⁶He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

⁷On veli solncu, in ne vzide, in zapečati zvezde v temo.

⁷He commands the sun, and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.

⁸On razprostira nebo sam in hodi po valovih morja.

⁸He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

⁹On nareja voz na nebu in rimščice in gostosevce in ozvezdja na jugu.

⁹He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.

¹⁰On nareja velike reči, ki se ne morejo preiskati, čudna dela, ki jim ni števila.

¹⁰He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.

¹¹Glej, on gre poleg mene, pa ga ne vidim, hodi mimo mene, pa ga ne zapazim.

¹¹Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.

¹²Če plen pograbi, kdo mu zabrani? kdo mu poreče: Kaj delaš?

¹²Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

¹³Bog ne odvrača jeze svoje. Pomočniki Rahaba [Rahab (t. j. prevzetnik) je ime Egiptu.] se pred Njim morajo ukloniti.

¹³“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

¹⁴Koliko manj bi Mu mogel jaz odgovarjati, kje naj dobim besed, da bi se prepiral ž Njim?

¹⁴How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

¹⁵Tudi ko bi prav imel, bi mu ne mogel odgovoriti – milosti bi rajši prosil sodnika svojega.

¹⁵Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

¹⁶Ko bi ga klical in bi mi odgovoril, jaz bi ne veroval, da je slišal moj glas,

¹⁶If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

¹⁷on, ki me streti hoče v viharju in množi rane moje brez vzroka,

¹⁷For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

¹⁸še sape mi ne da vase potegniti, a siti me z bridkostjo.

¹⁸He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

¹⁹Če gre za moč močnega, On reče: „Glej, tu sem!“ in če za sodbo: „Kdo si me upa pozvati?“

¹⁹If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

²⁰Ako bi tudi prav imel, bi me vendar usta moja obsodila, ako bi bil popoln, bi On dokazal, da sem popačenec.

²⁰Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

²¹Nedolžen sem! ne maram za dušo svojo, zaničujem življenje svoje –

²¹I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

²²vse eno je! Zato pravim: I nedolžnega i brezbožnega uničuje!

²²“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

²³Ko bič nagloma ubije, smeje se On izkušnji nedolžnih.

²³If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

²⁴Zemlja je izročena oblasti krivičnikov, On zakriva obraz njenim sodnikom. Če On ne, kdo pa drugi?

²⁴The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

²⁵Dnevi moji teko h koncu hitreje nego tekač, beže, sreče ne vidijo nič.

²⁵“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,

²⁶Lete naprej kakor čolni iz bičja, kakor orel, ko šine doli na plen.

²⁶They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

²⁷Ko rečem: Hočem pozabiti žalovanje svoje, opustim svoj tožni obraz in razvedrim si lice –

²⁷If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’

²⁸groza me je vseh bolečin mojih; vem, da me ne spoznaš za nekrivega.

²⁸I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

²⁹Moram veljati za krivca – čemu bi se pa trudil zaman?

²⁹I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

³⁰Ko bi se umil s snežnico in z lugom si očistil roke,

³⁰If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

³¹ti me vtakneš v mlakužo, in celo svoji obleki se bom gnusil!

³¹yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

³²Zakaj On ni mož kakor jaz, da bi mu odgovarjal, da bi skupaj šla pred sodbo.

³²For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

³³Ni ga med nama razsodnika, ki bi smel na oba položiti roke.

³³There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

³⁴Naj umakne od mene šibo svojo in naj me ne plaši strah njegov,in govoril bom in ne bom se Ga bal; kajti nisem tak sam v sebi.

³⁴Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

³⁵in govoril bom in ne bom se Ga bal; kajti nisem tak sam v sebi.

³⁵then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.