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Y-Êlipas Ƀuah kơ Y-Yôp

¹Leh anăn Y-Êlipas mơ̆ng ƀuôn Têman lŏ wĭt lač:
²“Tơdah sa čô jhŏng ha blŭ kơ ih, ih srăng ênguôt mơ̆?
Ƀiădah hlei pô dưi dôk ñăt?
³Nĕ anei ih bi hriăm leh lu mnuih,
leh anăn ih bi ktang leh kngan awăt.
⁴Klei ih blŭ krơ̆ng leh pô têč hnêč,
leh anăn ih bi kjăp leh kơŭt êun.
⁵Ƀiădah ară anei klei anăn truh kơ ih pô, leh anăn ih amâo dưi gĭr ôh;
klei anăn ngă kơ ih, leh anăn ih êdu ai.
⁶Amâo djŏ hĕ klei ih huĭ mpŭ kơ Aê Diê jing klei ih knang,
leh anăn klei ih dôk sĭt suôr jing klei ih čang hmăng?
⁷Dôk mĭn bĕ, hlei pô amâo soh tuôm rai luč leh?
Amâodah ti anôk phung kpă ênô tuôm rai tuč leh?
⁸Tui si kâo ƀuh leh, phung pla klei wê
leh anăn rah klei rŭng răng srăng wiă klei wê leh anăn klei rŭng răng.
⁹Hŏng êwa bluh mơ̆ng Aê Diê, diñu djiê jih
leh anăn hŏng klei ktang klei Aê Diê ngêñ, diñu rai tuč.
¹⁰Aê Diê bi ñăt kriêp klei diñu gruh msĕ si êmông gu leh anăn klei diñu grêñ msĕ si êmông brêč.
Aê Diê bi joh êgei êđai êmông gu.
¹¹Snăn, êmông gu ktang djiê kyua kƀah hlô dưi hiêk ƀơ̆ng,
leh anăn êđai êmông gu bra đuĕ mdê mdê.
¹²Arăng hưn sa klei kơ kâo hŏng klei hgăm,
knga kâo hmư̆ leh klei arăng mhač anăn.
¹³ Êjai dôk mĭn kơ klei bi ƀuh êjai mlam,
êjai phung mnuih dôk pĭt snăk,
¹⁴klei huĭ leh anăn klei ktư̆ yơ̆ng truh kơ kâo,
brei jih jang klang kâo kpoh mgei.
¹⁵Sa angĭn thut găn ti anăp ƀô̆ mta kâo,
leh anăn kâo pŭ mlâo asei.
¹⁶Mâo sa rup ti anăp ală kâo; angĭn thut anăn dôk hĕ,
ƀiădah kâo amâo dưi thâo kral ñu ôh.
Leh klei ñăt kriêp, kâo hmư̆ sa asăp:
¹⁷‘Dưi mơ̆ sa čô mnuih thâo djiê jing kpă ênô hĭn ti anăp Aê Diê?
Dưi mơ̆ sa čô mnuih jing êngeh hĭn kơ Pô Mjing ñu?
¹⁸Wăt Aê Diê amâo dưi knang ôh kơ phung dĭng buăl ñu,
leh anăn kčŭt klei soh kơ phung dĭng buăl jăk ñu;
¹⁹Ƀai êjai hĭn kơ phung arăng mjing leh hŏng lăn lŭ,
atur diñu jing ƀruih lăn,
phung arăng bi mčah bi rai msĕ si muôr.
²⁰Diñu hdĭp mơ̆ng aguah ka truh tlam arăng bi rai diñu leh;
diñu rai tuč hlŏng lar, amâo mâo pô uêñ ôh.
²¹Tơdah aruăt klei hdĭp diñu tloh leh,
diñu djiê yơh,
leh anăn djiê amâo mâo klei tŭ dưn.’ ”

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Eliphaz

¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
²“If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
But who can keep from speaking?
³Think how you have instructed many,
how you have strengthened feeble hands.
⁴Your words have supported those who stumbled;
you have strengthened faltering knees.
⁵But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;
it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
⁶Should not your piety be your confidence
and your blameless ways your hope?

⁷“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?
Where were the upright ever destroyed?
⁸As I have observed, those who plow evil
and those who sow trouble reap it.
⁹At the breath of God they perish;
at the blast of his anger they are no more.
¹⁰The lions may roar and growl,
yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
¹¹The lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

¹²“A word was secretly brought to me,
my ears caught a whisper of it.
¹³Amid disquieting dreams in the night,
when deep sleep falls on people,
¹⁴fear and trembling seized me
and made all my bones shake.
¹⁵A spirit glided past my face,
and the hair on my body stood on end.
¹⁶It stopped,
but I could not tell what it was.
A form stood before my eyes,
and I heard a hushed voice:
¹⁷‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?
Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
¹⁸If God places no trust in his servants,
if he charges his angels with error,
¹⁹how much more those who live in houses of clay,
whose foundations are in the dust,
who are crushed more readily than a moth!
²⁰Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;
unnoticed, they perish forever.
²¹Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,
so that they die without wisdom?’