Job ma ziri Elifas
1 Job wa zira a tja:
2 “Omambo otja inga mbe ye zuva rukuru;
omahuhumiṋino ngu mamu
ndji pe owo ondatumisire uriri.
3 Mo kara pokuhungira nao nga aruhe are?
Poo otjiṋa tjiṋe tji matji ku
handjisa okundjizira nai?
4 Andakuzu eṋe mwa ri moruveze rwandje
nami mba ri moruveze rweṋu,
ami etje hungira oviṋa
avihe mbi mamu hungire.
Ami etje mu takera otjiuru tjandje,
ne mu havere nomambo omengi.
5 Ami etje mu zeuparisa
nomaronga wandje,
ne kara pokuhungira kutja
mbi mu huhumiṋe.
6 “Nungwari ngamwa
atjihe tji me hungire,
otjo katji nombatero,
nu okumwina wina kaku
nokuwisa omuhihamo wandje pehi.
7 Ove we ndji mana, Ndjambi;
wa zepaisisa eṱunḓu randje arihe.
8 Ove we ndji wangata;
oove omunavita na ami.
Owami omukova nomaṱupa,
novandu mave itavere kutja ihi
otji tji ri otjiraisiro tjozondjo zandje.
9 “Momazenge we Ndjambi
me ndji pora moviṋepo pekepeke;
eye me ndji tara nomeho omatwe.
10 Ovandu mave ndji nyekerere;
owo mave ndji kovere
nu mave ndji tono momurungu.
11 Ndjambi we ndji yandja kovarunde,
ne ndji twa momake wovanauvi.
12 Ami ee kara mohange,
nungwari Ndjambi we
ndji kambura posengo
ne ndji nyanyaura.
Ndjambi we ndji kuramisa
momuhunga womayahero,
13 nu me ndji yaha noviku
okuza komikuma avihe,
oviku, mbi mavi ndji tuvakaṋa
navi ndji tende tjinene;
nu nangarire kutja pe ri nao,
eye ke nokundjiṱirotjari.
14 Eye me ndji tende potuingi,
me ndji rwisa otja omurwe
wovita ngu nomazenge tjinene.
15 “Ami mbi noruhoze nu mba
zara ozombanda zomakutu;
mba haama mba moruuma amba
haverwa nambi hi nomaundjiro.
16 Ami mba riri nga omurungu
wandje tji wa seraere,
nomeho wandje ya suru
nu kwe rikutjire eṱuku,
17 nungwari hi nondjo yozondjito
zoutwe ngamwa azehe,
nongumbiro yandje ku
Ndjambi oyo osemba.
18 “Hi, o horeke ourunde
mbwa tjitwa ku ami!
O mwinisa ondjuriro yandje
yokupewa ousemba!
19 Ami mbi nomuhongonone meyuru
ngu ma sekama mena randje,
nu ngu me ndji yama.
20 Omapanga wandje maye ndji hembe;
omeho wandje maye ziza
omahoze komurungu wa Ndjambi.
21 Me vanga omundu ngu me
ndji yarikaṋene ku Ndjambi,
otja omundu tje riyarikaṋena epanga re.
22 Ozombura zandje nambano
ze ri pokuyanda;
nu me twara ondjira ndji
ha kotokwa rukwao.
Job
1-2 I have heard words like that before;
the comfort you give is only torment.
3 Are you going to keep on talking forever?
Do you always have to have the last word?
4 If you were in my place and I in yours,
I could say everything you are saying.
I could shake my head wisely
and drown you with a flood of words.
5 I could strengthen you with advice
and keep talking to comfort you.
6 But nothing I say helps,
and being silent does not calm my pain.
7 You have worn me out, God;
you have let my family be killed.
8 You have seized me; you are my enemy.
I am skin and bones,
and people take that as proof of my guilt.
9 In anger God tears me limb from limb;
he glares at me with hate.
10 People sneer at me;
they crowd around me and slap my face.
11 God has handed me over to evil people.
12 I was living in peace,
but God took me by the throat
and battered me and crushed me.
God uses me for target practice
13 and shoots arrows at me from every side—
arrows that pierce and wound me;
and even then he shows no pity.
14 He wounds me again and again;
he attacks like a soldier gone mad with hate.
15 I mourn and wear clothes made of sackcloth,
and I sit here in the dust defeated.
16 I have cried until my face is red,
and my eyes are swollen and circled with shadows,
17 but I am not guilty of any violence,
and my prayer to God is sincere.
18 O Earth, don't hide the wrongs done to me!
Don't let my call for justice be silenced!
19 There is someone in heaven
to stand up for me and take my side.
20 My friends scorn me;
my eyes pour out tears to God.
21 I want someone to plead with God for me,
as one pleads for a friend.
22 My years are passing now,
and I walk the road of no return.
