Job 35
1 फिर एलीहू इस प्रकार और भी कहता गया,
2 कि क्या तू इसे अपना हक़ समझता है? क्या तू दावा करता है कि तेरा धर्म ईश्वर के धर्म से अधिक है?
3 जो तू कहता है कि मुझे इस से क्या लाभ? और मुझे पापी होने में और न होने में कौन सा अधिक अन्तर है?
4 मैं तुझे और तेरे साथियों को भी एक संग उत्तर देता हूँ।
5 आकाश की ओर दृष्टि कर के देख; और आकाशमण्डल को ताक, जो तुझ से ऊंचा है।
6 यदि तू ने पाप किया है तो ईश्वर का क्या बिगड़ता है? यदि तेरे अपराध बहुत ही बढ़ जाएं तौभी तू उसके साथ क्या करता है?
7 यदि तू धमीं है तो उसको क्या दे देता है; वा उसे तेरे हाथ से क्या मिल जाता है?
8 तेरी दुष्टता का फल तुझ ऐसे ही पुरुष के लिये है, और तेरे धर्म का फल भी मनुष्य मात्र के लिये है।
9 बहुत अन्धेर होने के कारण वे चिल्लाते हैं; और बलवान के बाहुबल के कारण वे दोहाई देते हैं।
10 तौभी कोई यह नहीं कहता, कि मेरा सृजने वाला ईश्वर कहां है, जो रात में भी गीत गवाता है,
11 और हमें पृथ्वी के पशुओं से अधिक शिक्षा देता, और आकाश के पक्षियों से अधिक बुद्धि देता है?
12 वे दोहाई देते हैं परन्तु कोई उत्तर नहीं देता, यह बुरे लोगों के घमण्ड के कारण होता है।
13 निश्चय ईश्वर व्यर्थ बातें कभी नहीं सुनता, और न सर्वशक्तिमान उन पर चित्त लगाता है।
14 तो तू क्यों कहता है, कि वह मुझे दर्शन नहीं देता, कि यह मुक़द्दमा उसके साम्हने है, और तू उसकी बाट जोहता हुआ ठहरा है?
15 परन्तु अभी तो उसने क्रोध कर के दण्ड नहीं दिया है, और अभिमान पर चित्त बहुत नहीं लगाया;
16 इस कारण अय्यूब व्यर्थ मुंह खोल कर अज्ञानता की बातें बहुत बनाता है।
1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,
2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day’s journey.
13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
16 Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.
17 For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.
18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
19 And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
21 Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
22 Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
23 And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,
25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
26 And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.