Job ta yamukula
1 Job okwa yamukula ngeyi:
2 Iinima ngaambika onde yi uva nale;
ne amuhe aahekeleki mwaa na shilonga.
3 Oohapu dheni odhi na tuu ehulilo?
Oshike tashi mu endelelitha okuyamukula?
4 Ngame wo ote vulu okupopya nde mu fa, ando one mwa li ngame,
ote vulu okupopya, ndi mu tompe
noku mu pukapukila omutse gwandje.
5 Oohapu dhandje otadhi vulu oku mu laadhipika;
etalaleko tali zi mokana kandje, otali vulu okufudhitha.
6 Ihe ngele tandi popi, uuwehame wandje itau pepelele,
nongele tandi mwena, itau pu po.
7 Kalunga, owa hepeke ndje unene;
oluvalo lwandje owe lu hanagula po.
8 Owa kwata ndje nowa ningi ombangi yokutamaneka ndje;
onda ningi omasipa gowala,
naantu otaa tala kutya ongame omuyoni.
9 Kalunga ota kondjitha ndje, ota tuula ndje mondjahi ye
noti ikokotele ndje omayego;
ota tongolola ndje nda fa omutondi gwe.
10 Aantu oya makulila ndje omakana
nokuninga ndje oshipwedhela.
Otaa dhenge ndje koompanda ya dhina ndje,
otaa imanga okapandi, ya hangene ndje.
11 Kalunga okwa gandja ndje miikaha yaakolokoshi
noku umbile ndje momake gaakaanakalunga.
12 Onda li ndi na ombili, ihe okwa nyanyagula ndje;
okwa kwata ndje e ta hata ndje po.
Okwa ningi ndje oshishonekwa she.
13 Oondjumbeta dhe odha kunduka ndje,
niikuti ye oya yaha ndje miitiyanathigo pwaa na henda,
nonyango yandje oya tikile pevi.
14 Okwa matukile ndje omathimbo nomathimbo
nokwa ponokele ndje ongomukwiita omuhahu.
15 Mokusa oluhodhi ondi izaleke ehahi,
nesimano lyandje onde li fumvike montsi.
16 Oshipala shandje osha pembe kokulila,
nomulema omuluudhe ogwa kunduka oombafu dhandje,
17 ihe natango tuu iikaha yandje oya kwatunuka kondjahi,
nomagalikano gandje omayelele.
18 Evi, ino siikila uuwinayi mbo nda ningilwa!
Ino etha okulila kwandje ku mwenekwe!
19 Tala, ombangi yandje oyi li megulu;
omupopili gwandje oku li muule wokombanda.
20 Ookuume kandje otaa yolo ndje.
Omahodhi gandje otaga tondokele kuKalunga.
21 Ando pu kale ngoka ta galikanene ndje kuKalunga,
ngaashi omuntu ta galikanene kuume ke!
22 Oku na owala oomvula dhimwe,
ndi ye molweendo itaandi galuka we.
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.
