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Job Maintains His Integrity
1Moreover Job continued his discourse, and said:
2“As God lives, ⚓who has taken away my justice,
And the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
3As long as my breath is in me,
And the breath of God in my nostrils,
4My lips will not speak wickedness,
Nor my tongue utter deceit.
5Far be it from me
That I should say you are right;
Till I die ⚓I will not put away my integrity from me.
6My righteousness I ⚓hold fast, and will not let it go;
⚓My heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.
7“May my enemy be like the wicked,
And he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.
8⚓For what is the hope of the hypocrite,
Though he may gain much,
If God takes away his life?
9⚓Will God hear his cry
When trouble comes upon him?
10⚓Will he delight himself in the Almighty?
Will he always call on God?
11“I will teach you about the hand of God;
What is with the Almighty I will not conceal.
12Surely all of you have seen it;
Why then do you behave with complete nonsense?
13“This⚓ is the portion of a wicked man with God,
And the heritage of oppressors, received from the Almighty:
14⚓If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword;
And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
15Those who survive him shall be buried in death,
And ⚓their widows shall not weep,
16Though he heaps up silver like dust,
And piles up clothing like clay—
17He may pile it up, but ⚓the just will wear it,
And the innocent will divide the silver.
18He builds his house like a moth,
⚓Like a booth which a watchman makes.
19The rich man will lie down,
But not be gathered up;
He opens his eyes,
And he is⚓no more.
20⚓Terrors overtake him like a flood;
A tempest steals him away in the night.
21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone;
It sweeps him out of his place.
22It hurls against him and does not ⚓spare;
He flees desperately from its power.
23Men shall clap their hands at him,
And shall hiss him out of his place.
1-2Yauj hais ntxiv tias:
“Kuv twv ntxhias ntawm Vajtswv tus muaj
hwjchim loj thiab muaj sia nyob
uas tsis pom kuv txojkev ncaj ncees
thiab ua rau kuv lub neej txomnyem ntsuav hais tias,
3yog thaum twg Vajtswv tseem pub kuv muaj txojsia nyob,
4kuv lub qhovncauj yuav tsis hais ib lo lus phem
thiab kuv tus nplaig yuav tsis hais ib lo lus dag li.
5Kuv yuav tsis lees hais tias nej hais yog;
kuv yuav cam hais tias kuv tsis muaj
txhaum mus txog hnub kuv tuag.
6Kuv yuav tuav rawv txojkev ncaj ncees tsis tso tseg li;
kuv lub siab yeej paub meej li ntawd.
7“Thov kom txhua tus uas tsis tuaj kuv tog
thiab tawmtsam kuv raug txiav txim
ib yam li tus neeg siab phem thiab siab tsis ncaj.
8Cov neeg uas tsis hwm Vajtswv puas muaj kev cia siab
thaum Vajtswv txiav txim rau lawv?
9Thaum lawv muaj kev nyuaj siab
Vajtswv puas yuav hnov lawv tej lus thov?
10Tsimnyog lawv txaus siab rau
Vajtswv thiab thov Vajtswv txhua lub sijhawm.
11“Cia kuv qhia Vajtswv lub hwjchim
thiab piav Vajtswv tus muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus
tes haujlwm rau nej paub.
12Tiamsis tsis tas kuv yuav qhia nej,
rau qhov nej twb pom lawm;
yog li cas nej pheej hais tej lus uas
tsis muaj qabhau?”
13“Tej no yog Vajtswv tus uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus,
rau txim rau cov neeg siab phem thiab ua nruj ua tsiv.
14Txawm yog lawv tej tubki coob los yuav raug hniav ntaj
hniav riam tuag tas rau hauv tshavrog;
lawv tej menyuam yuav tsis muaj noj tsis muaj haus txaus.
15Cov uas seem yuav raug kab mob
kev nkeeg tuag tas,
thiab lawv cov pojntsuam yuav tsis
quaj nyiav lawv tej neeg tuag.
16Cov neeg siab phem muaj nyiaj ntau suav tsis txheeb,
thiab muaj tsoo tsho ntau hnav tsis tas;
17tiamsis qee leej neeg siab zoo yuav
tau tej tsoo tsho ntawd hnav,
thiab qee leej neeg ncaj ncees yuav
tau tej nyiaj ntawd siv.
18Cov neeg siab phem ua tsev zoo li
kab laugsab tej zes,
lossis zoo ib yam li tus tubqhe lub
tsev uas nws nyob zov teb.
19Thaum lawv pw, lawv tej nyiaj txiag nyob txhij,
tiamsis thaum lawv sawv los, lawv
tej nyiaj txiag ploj tas lawm.
20Kev txhawj kev ntshai yuav los raug
lawv ib yam li dej nyab;
hmo ntuj cua daj cua dub yuav ntsawj lawv mus tas;
21cov cua sab hnubtuaj yuav ntsawj
lawv tawm hauv lawv tej tsev mus;
22thaum lawv nrhiav kev khiav kom dim,
tej cua ntawd yuav ntsawj lawv, tsis hlub lawv li,
23Thaum lawv khiav cua ntsawj nrov nroo ntws,
lub hwjchim uas yog kev puastsuaj ua rau lawv ntshai heev.”
Qhuas Txojkev Txawj Ntse