¹Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

¹Nato Jahve odgovori Jobu iz oluje i reče:

²“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

²"Tko je taj koji riječima bezumnim zamračuje božanski promisao?

³Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

³Bokove svoje opaši k'o junak: ja ću te pitat', a ti me pouči.

⁴“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

⁴Gdje si bio kad zemlju utemeljih? Kazuj, ako ti je znanje sigurno.

⁵Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

⁵Znaš li tko joj je mjere odredio i nad njom uže mjerničko napeo?

⁶Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

⁶Na čemu joj počivaju temelji? Tko joj postavi kamen ugaoni

⁷when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

⁷dok su klicale zvijezde jutarnje i Božji uzvikivali dvorjani?

⁸“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,

⁸Tko li zatvori more vratnicama kad je navrlo iz krila majčina;

⁹when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

⁹kad ga oblakom k'o haljom odjenuh i k'o pelenam' ovih maglom gustom;

¹⁰marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

¹⁰kad sam njegovu odredio među, vrata stavio sa prijevornicama?

¹¹and said, ‘Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?’

¹¹Dotle, ne dalje, rekao sam njemu, tu nek' se lomi ponos tvog valovlja!

¹²“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

¹²Zar si ikad zapovjedio jutru, zar si kazao zori mjesto njeno,

¹³that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

¹³da poduhvati zemlju za rubove i da iz nje sve bezbožnike strese;

¹⁴It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.

¹⁴da je pretvori u glinu pečatnu i oboji je k'o kakvu haljinu.

¹⁵From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

¹⁵Ona uzima svjetlost zlikovcima i pesnicu im lomi uzdignutu.

¹⁶“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

¹⁶Zar si ti prodro do izvora morskih, po dnu bezdana zar si kad hodio?

¹⁷Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

¹⁷Zar su ti vrata smrti pokazali; vidje li dveri kraja mrtvih sjena?

¹⁸Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

¹⁸Zar si prostranstvo zemlje uočio? Govori, ako ti je znano sve to.

¹⁹“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

¹⁹Koji putovi u dom svjetla vode, na kojem mjestu prebivaju tmine,

²⁰that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

²⁰da ih odvedeš u njine krajeve, da im put k stanu njihovu pokažeš?

²¹Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

²¹Ti znadeš to, tÓa davno ti se rodi, tvojih dana broj veoma je velik!

²²Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

²²Zar si stigao do riznica snijega i zar si tuče spremišta vidio

²³which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

²³što ih pričuvah za dane nevolje, za vrijeme boja krvava i rata?

²⁴By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

²⁴Kojim li se putem dijeli munja kada iskre po svoj zemlji prosipa?

²⁵Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;

²⁵Tko li je jaz iskopao povodnju, tko prokrčio pute grmljavini

²⁶To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;

²⁶da bi daždjelo na kraj nenastanjen, na pustinju gdje žive duše nema,

²⁷to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

²⁷da bi neplodnu napojio pustoš, da bi u stepi trava izniknula?

²⁸Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

²⁸Ima li kiša svoga roditelja? Tko je taj koji kapi rose rađa?

²⁹Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?

²⁹Iz čijeg li mraz izlazi krila, tko slanu stvara što s nebesa pada?

³⁰The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

³⁰Kako čvrsnu vode poput kamena i led se hvata površja bezdana?

³¹“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

³¹Možeš li lancem vezati Vlašiće i razdriješiti spone Orionu,

³²Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

³²u pravo vrijeme izvesti Danicu, vodit' Medvjeda s njegovim mladima?

³³Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

³³Zar poznaješ ti zakone nebeske pa da njima moć na zemlji dodijeliš?

³⁴“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

³⁴Zar doviknuti možeš oblacima pa da pljuskovi tebe poslušaju?

³⁵Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are?’

³⁵Zar na zapovijed tvoju munje lijeću i tebi zar se odazivlju: 'Evo nas'?

³⁶Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

³⁶Tko je mudrost darovao ibisu, tko li je pamet ulio u pijetla?

³⁷Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,

³⁷Tko to mudro prebrojava oblake i tko nebeske izlijeva mjehove

³⁸when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

³⁸dok se zemlja u tijesto ne zgusne i dok se grude njezine ne slijepe?

³⁹“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

³⁹Zar ćeš ti plijen uloviti lavici ili ćeš glad utažit' lavićima

⁴⁰when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?

⁴⁰na leglu svojem dok gladni čekaju i vrebaju na žrtvu iz zaklona?

⁴¹Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

⁴¹Tko hranu gavranovima pribavlja kad Bogu ptići njegovi cijuču i naokolo oblijeću bez hrane?