Kniha Jób

Biblia - Sväté písmo

(CPDV - Anglický - Catholic PD)

Jób 9, 1-35

1 And Job, responding, said: 2 Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God. 3 If he chooses to contend with him, he is not able to respond to him once out of a thousand times. 4 He is understanding in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and yet had peace? 5 He has moved mountains, and those whom he overthrew in his fury did not know it. 6 He shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars tremble. 7 He commands the sun and it does not rise, and he closes the stars as if under a seal. 8 He alone extends the heavens, and he walks upon the waves of the sea. 9 He fashions Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the interior of the south. 10 He accomplishes great and incomprehensible and miraculous things, which cannot be numbered. 11 If he approaches me, I will not see him; if he departs, I will not understand. 12 If he suddenly should question, who will answer him? Or who can say, “Why did you do so?” 13 God, whose wrath no one is able to resist, and under whom they bend who carry the world, 14 what am I then, that I should answer him and exchange words with him? 15 And if I now have any justice, I will not respond, but will beseech my judge. 16 And if he should listen to me when I call, I would not believe that he had heard my voice. 17 For he will crush me in a whirlwind and multiply my wounds, even without cause. 18 He does not permit my spirit to rest, and he fills me with bitterness. 19 If strength is sought, he is most strong; if equity in judgment, no one would dare to give testimony for me. 20 If I wanted to justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me; if I would reveal my innocence, he would prove me depraved. 21 And if I now became simple, my soul would be ignorant even of this, and my life would weary me. 22 There is one thing that I have said: both the innocent and the impious he consumes. 23 If he scourges, let him kill all at once, and not laugh at the punishment of the innocent. 24 Since the earth has been given into the hand of the impious, he covers the face of its judges; for if it is not him, then who is it? 25 My days have been swifter than a messenger; they have fled and have not seen goodness. 26 They have passed by like ships carrying fruits, just like an eagle flying to food. 27 If I say: “By no means will I speak this way.” I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow. 28 I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender. 29 Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain? 30 If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing, 31 yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me. 32 For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment. 33 There is no one who could both prevail in argument and in placing his hand between the two. 34 Let him take his staff away from me, and let not the fear of him terrify me. 35 I will speak and I will not fear him, for in fearfulness I am not able to respond.

Verš 32

For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment.

Kaz 6:10 - Whoever shall be in the future, his name has already been called. And it is known that he is a man and that he is not able to contend in judgment against one who is stronger than himself.

Jer 49:19 - Behold, he will ascend like a lion from the arrogance of the Jordan, against the robust beauty. For I will cause him to rush against her suddenly. And who will be the elect one, whom I may appoint over her? For who is like me? And who can endure me? And who is that pastor who can withstand my countenance?

Verš 2

Truly, I know that it is so, and that man cannot be justified compared with God.

Ž 143:2 - My mercy and my refuge, my supporter and my deliverer, my protector and him in whom I have hoped: he subdues my people under me.

Verš 8

He alone extends the heavens, and he walks upon the waves of the sea.

Gn 1:6 - God also said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide waters from waters.”

Verš 10

He accomplishes great and incomprehensible and miraculous things, which cannot be numbered.

Jób 5:9 - He does great and unfathomable and miraculous things without number.

Ž 72:18 - So, because of deceitfulness, truly, you have placed it before them. While they were being lifted up, you were casting them down.

Ž 77:14 - And he led them with a cloud by day, and with illumination by fire throughout the night.

Ž 86:10 -

Rim 11:33 - Oh, the depths of the richness of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable are his ways!

Verš 34

Let him take his staff away from me, and let not the fear of him terrify me.

Jób 13:20 - Do not do such things to me twice, and then I will not hide from your face.

Jób 33:7 - So, truly, do not let my wonders terrify you, and do not let my eloquence be burdensome to you.

Verš 22

There is one thing that I have said: both the innocent and the impious he consumes.

Kaz 9:2 - But all things in the future remain uncertain, because all things happen equally to the just and to the impious, to the good and to the bad, to the pure and to the impure, to those who offer sacrifices and to those who despise sacrifices. As the good are, so also are sinners. As those who commit perjury are, so also are those who swear to the truth.

Mal 3:14 - And you have said, “What have we spoken against you?” You have said, “He labors in vain who serves God,” and, “What advantage is it that we have kept his precepts, and that we have walked sorrowfully in the sight of the Lord of hosts?

Verš 25

My days have been swifter than a messenger; they have fled and have not seen goodness.

Jób 7:6 - My days have passed by more quickly than threads are cut by a weaver, and they have been consumed without any hope.

Verš 30

If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,

Jer 2:22 - Even if you wash yourself with soap, and increase your use of herbal soaps, you are still stained by your iniquity in my sight, says the Lord God.

Job 9,5-7 - Ohromná moc Božia javí sa v zosúvaní horstiev (verš 5), zemetrasení (verš 6) a v zatmeniach slnka (verš 7).

Job 9,8 - Tvorivá moc Božia nepozná obmedzenie a hranice. Rovnako stvoril Boh oblohu a hlboké more. – "Prechádzať sa" znamená niečo do svojej moci prevziať, nad niečím neobmedzene vládnuť.

Job 9,13 - "Potvora" a "voje Potvory" (v pôvodine Rachab a voje Rachaby) sú zasa bájoslovné antické predstavy o mori so všetkými jeho domnelými obludami (pravekými zvermi), ktorými bolo preplnené. Svätopisec užíva tieto všeobecne známe ľudové predstavy, aby tak poukázal na nepremožiteľnú moc Božiu, s ktorou vládne nad bytosťami, ktorých predstava budila v mysliach ľudí úžas.

Job 9,19-20 - Božia moc a prevaha je taká veľká v očiach Jóbových, že sám prichádza k poznaniu svojej bezmocnosti, keď sa chce porovnať s Bohom.

Job 9,22-24 - Na tvrdenie Bildadovo, že Boh je krajne spravodlivý, ktorý len hriešnikov tresce, Jób odpovedá záporne a tvrdí, že Boh bez ohľadu na čnosť a hriešnosť zaobchádza s ľuďmi úplne podľa ľubovôle.

Job 9,33 - "Ruku vložiť na niekoho" znamená nad niekým získať moc a vládu.