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

¹Sa svojim očima savez sam sklopio da pogledat neću nijednu djevicu.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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—

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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