¹Then Job answered,

¹Job progovori i reče:

²“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

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

³Allow me, and I also will speak; After 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? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

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

⁵Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

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

⁶When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

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

⁷“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

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

⁸Their child is established with them in their sight, 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 bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.

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

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

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

¹²They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

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

¹³They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. .

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

¹⁴They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

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

¹⁵What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

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

¹⁶Behold, their prosperity 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?

¹⁷“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

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

¹⁸How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

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

¹⁹You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

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

²⁰Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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

²¹For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

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

²²“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

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

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

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

²⁴His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

²⁴bokova od pretiline otežalih i kostiju sočne moždine prepunih.

²⁵Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

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

²⁶They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

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

²⁷“Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.

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

²⁸For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

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

²⁹Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,

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

³⁰that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led 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? Who shall repay him what he has done?

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

³²Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

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

³³The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

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

³⁴So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

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