Kniha Jób

Biblia - Sväté písmo

(KJV - Anglický - King James)

Jób 3, 1-26

1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job spake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. 7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. 8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. 9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. 18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. 25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. 26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

Verš 1

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

Jer 15:10 - Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Jer 20:14 - Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

Verš 11

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

Jób 10:18 - Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

Verš 23

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

Jób 19:8 - He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

Job 3,3-26 - Jóbova reč je ovplyvnená jeho nesmiernou telesnou a duševnou bolesťou. Z tohto hľadiska treba posúdiť jej jednotlivé výrazy, ktoré prezrádzajú netrpezlivosť, ba až zúfalosť. Jób sa pritom nebúri proti Bohu.

Job 3,8 - Pôvodca Knihy preberá tieto zvláštne výrazy z ľudovej reči, aby nimi spestril svoj opis ľudskej biedy. "Zaklínači" sú najskôr bytosti, o ktorých sa mylne domnievali, že čarami a iným magickým umením vedeli privolať nešťastie na určité dni. "Krokodíl" (doslovne: Leviatan, t. j. vrtký had) je bájoslovné meno mora, ktoré si zosobnene predstavovali ako odvekého draka.

Job 3,12 - Otec brával narodené dieťa na svoje kolená na znak toho, že ho uznáva za svoje a pripúšťa ho medzi ostatných členov rodiny.

Job 3,14-15 - "Samoty" (doslovne: rumoviská) znamenajú "kráľovské hrobky". K telesným pozostatkom kráľov prikladali obľúbené náčinie, zbrane a skvosty.

Job 3,23 - Výraz "Pán ho ohradil" je obrazom nielen ochrany, ale aj úplnej uzavretosti a odlúčenosti.