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

¹Učinil som smluvu so svojimi očima, a čo by som mal hľadieť na pannu?

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

²A jaký je podiel od Boha shora? Alebo jaké dedičstvo od Všemohúceho s výsostí?

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

³Či nie zahynutie nešľachetnému a pomsta činiteľom neprávosti?

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

⁴Či on azda nevidí mojich ciest? A počíta všetky moje kroky?

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

⁵Jestli som chodil s márnosťou, a jestli moja noha spiechala ku ľsti,

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

⁶nech ma odváži na váhe spravedlivosti a tak nech pozná Bôh moju bezúhonnosť.

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

⁷Jestli sa môj krok odchýlil s cesty, a moje srdce odišlo za mojimi očima, a jestli ľpí na mojich rukách nejaká škvrna;

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

⁸vtedy nech sejem, a iný nech jie, a moje potomstvo nech je vykorenené.

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

⁹Jestli sa dalo zvábiť moje srdce k cudzej žene, alebo jestli som úkladil pri dveriach svojho blížneho,

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

¹⁰vtedy nech melie moja žena inému, a nech sa zohýňajú nad ňou iní.

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

¹¹Lebo je to mrzkosť a je to neprávosť pred sudcov;

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

¹²lebo je to oheň, ktorý žerie až do zahynutia a vykorenil by všetku moju úrodu.

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

¹³Keby som bol opovrhol súdom svojho sluhu alebo svojej dievky, keď sa pravotili so mnou,

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

¹⁴čo by som bol urobil, keby bol povstal silný Bôh a keby to bol vyhľadával, čo by som mu bol odpovedal?

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

¹⁵Či azda ten, ktorý mňa učinil v živote matky, neučinil i jeho? A či nás oboch neutvoril jeden a ten istý v lone matky?

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

¹⁶Ak som uňal z toho, čo si priali chudobní, a dal som hynúť očiam vdovy

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

¹⁷a jedol som sám svoju skyvu, a nejedla z nej i sirota -

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

¹⁸Lebo veď mi rástla od mojej mladosti jako otcovi, a od života svojej matky som ju vodil, vdovu -;

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

¹⁹ak som videl hynúceho bez rúcha a díval som sa na toho, kto nemal čím sa odiať, na chudobného;

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

²⁰ak mi nedobrorečily jeho bedrá, a nehrial sa zo strihu mojich oviec;

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

²¹ak som sa zahnal svojou rukou na sirotu, pretože som videl v bráne svoju pomoc;

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

²²nech odpadne moje plece od svojeho väzu, a moje rameno nech sa vylomí zo svojho kĺbu!

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

²³Lebo išiel na mňa strach pred zkazou silného Boha, a pre jeho velebnosť nemohol som vykonať takú vec.

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

²⁴Ak som položil zlato za svoju nádej a povedal som čistému zlatu: Moje dúfanie;

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

²⁵ak som sa radoval tomu, že mám veľa majetku, a že moja ruka získala tak mnoho;

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

²⁶ak som hľadel na svetlo slnka, že svieti, a na mesiac, ako ta ide spanile,

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

²⁷a moje srdce sa dalo tajne zviesť, a moja ruka im posielala bozky mojich úst -

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

²⁸Aj to by bola bývala neprávosť pred sudcu, lebo tak by som bol zaprel silného Boha hore -,

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

²⁹ak som sa radoval záhube svojho nenávistníka a bol som vzrušený radosťou, že ho stihlo zlé -

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

³⁰Ale nedal som hrešiť svojim ústam kliatbou žiadať jeho dušu -,

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

³¹ak nehovorili ľudia môjho stánu, kde kto je vraj, kto by sa nebol najedol jeho mäsa?!

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

³²Pohostín nenocoval vonku; svoje dvere som otváral na cestu -,

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

³³ak som prikrýval svoje prestúpenie, ako robieva človek, skrývajúc svoju neprávosť vo svojom lone,

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—

³⁴keď som sa azda bál veľkého davu, a desilo ma opovrženie rodín, a mlčal som nevychádzajúc zo dverí -

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

³⁵Oj, aby som mal toho, kto by ma vypočul! Tu hľa, je moje znamenie! Nech mi odpovie Všemohúci! A písmo aby som mal, ktoré napísal môj protivník!

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

³⁶Áno, vzal by som ho na svoje plece a ovinul by som si ho sťa korunu!

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

³⁷Oznámim mu počet svojich krokov a priblížim sa mu jako knieža -,

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

³⁸ak volá proti mne moja zem a spolu plačú jej brázdy;

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

³⁹ak som jedol jej úrodu bez peňazí, a pre mňa musela vzdychať duša jej držiteľov:

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

⁴⁰miesto pšenice nech vzíde tŕnie a miesto jačmeňa plevel. Dokončili sa slová Jobove.