Job, 10

1. My soul is weary of my life. I will release my words against myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

1. Kad mi je duši život omrznuo, nek' mi tužaljka poteèe slobodno, zborit æu u gorèini duše svoje.

2. I will say to God: Do not be willing to condemn me. Reveal to me why you judge me this way.

2. Reæu æu Bogu: Nemoj me osudit! Kaži mi zašto se na me obaraš.

3. Does it seem good to you, if you find fault with me and oppress me, the work of your own hands, and assist the counsel of the impious?

3. TÓa što od toga imaš da me tlaèiš, da djelo ruku svojih zabacuješ, da pomažeš namjerama opakih?

4. Do you have bodily eyes? Or, just as man sees, will you see?

4. Jesu li u tebe oèi tjelesne? Zar ti vidiš kao što èovjek vidi?

5. Are your days just like the days of man, and are your years as the times of humans,

5. Zar su ti dani k'o dani smrtnika a kao ljudski vijek tvoje godine?

6. so that you would inquire about my iniquity and examine my sin?

6. Zbog èega krivnju moju istražuješ i grijehe moje hoæeš razotkriti,

7. And you know that I have done nothing impious, yet there is no one who can deliver from your hand.

7. kad znadeš dobro da sam nedužan, da ruci tvojoj izmaknut ne mogu?

8. Your hands have made me and formed me all around, and, in this way, do you suddenly throw me away?

8. Tvoje me ruke sazdaše, stvoriše, zašto da me sada opet rašèiniš!

9. Remember, I ask you, that you have fashioned me like clay, and you will reduce me to dust.

9. Sjeti se, k'o glinu si me sazdao i u prah æeš me ponovo vratiti.

10. Have you not extracted me like milk and curdled me like cheese?

10. Nisi li mene k'o mlijeko ulio i uèinio da se k'o sir zgrušam?

11. You have clothed me with skin and flesh. You have put me together with bones and nerves.

11. Kožom si me i mesom odjenuo, kostima si me spleo i žilama.

12. You have assigned to me life and mercy, and your visitation has preserved my spirit.

12. S milošæu si mi život darovao, brižljivo si nad mojim bdio dahom.

13. Though you may conceal this in your heart, yet I know that you remember everything.

13. Al' u svom srcu ovo si sakrio, znam da je tvoja to bila namjera:

14. If I have sinned, and you have spared me for an hour, why do you not endure me to be clean from my iniquity?

14. da paziš budno hoæu li zgriješiti i da mi grijeh ne proðe nekažnjeno.

15. And if I should be impious, woe to me, and if I should be just, I will not lift up my head, being drenched with affliction and misery.

15. Ako sam grešan, onda teško meni, ako li sam prav, glavu ne smijem diæi - shrvan sramotom, nesreæom napojen!

16. And because of pride, you will seize me like a lioness, and having returned, you torment me to an extraordinary degree.

16. Ispravim li se, k'o lav me nagoniš, snagu svoju okušavaš na meni,

17. You renew your testimony against me, and you multiply your wrath against me, and these punishments make war within me.

17. optužbe nove na mene podižeš, jarošæu veæom na mene usplamtiš i sa svježim se èetama obaraš.

18. Why did you lead me out of the womb? If only I had been consumed, so that no eye would ever see me!

18. Iz utrobe što si me izvukao? O, što ne umrijeh: vidjeli me ne bi,

19. I should have been as if I had not been: transferred from the womb to the tomb.

19. bio bih k'o da me ni bilo nije, iz utrobe u grob bi me stavili.

20. Will not my few days be completed soon? Release me, therefore, so that I may lament my sorrows a little,

20. Mog su života dani tako kratki! Pusti me da se još malo veselim

21. before I depart and return no more to a land that is dark and covered with the fog of death,

21. prije nego æu na put bez povratka, u zemlju tame, zemlju sjene smrtne,

22. a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells.

22. u zemlju tmine guste i meteža, gdje je svjetlost slièna noæi najcrnjoj."