Yoube 12
1 Yoube da amane sia: i,
Then Job said [to his three friends],
2 “Dafawane! Dilia da dunu huluane ilia lafi agoai gala! Dilia da bogosea, asigi dawa: su noga: idafa amolawane da bogoi dialebe ba: mu!
“You (talk as though/You think) [SAR] that you are the people [whom everyone should listen to], and that when you die, there will be no more wise people.
3 Be na asigi dawa: su da dilia asigi dawa: su defele gala. Dilia hou da na hou hame baligisa. Dilia waha sia: be amo dunu huluane ilia dawa:
But I have as much good sense as you do; I am (not less wise than/certainly as wise as [LIT]) you. Certainly everyone knows [RHQ] all that you have said.
4 Be wali na na: iyadodafa amolawane ilia naba: le habosesele oufesega: sa. Be na hou da moloidafa amola na da wadela: le hamosu hame dawa: Be musa: , Gode da na sia: ne gadosu nabane, adole iasu.
My friends all laugh at me now. Previously I habitually requested God to help me, and he answered/helped me. I am righteous, a very godly man [DOU], but everyone laughs at me.
5 Dilia da bidi hamosu hame dawa: Be dilia da nama habosesele oufesega: sa. Dilia da dunu amo da dafamu gadenei, amo fasa.
Those [like you] who have no troubles make fun of me; they cause those [like me] who are already suffering to have more troubles.
6 Wamolasu dunu amola Gode Ea hou hame lalegagui dunu ilia ‘gode’ da ilila: gasa fawane. Be ilia da osobo bagadega olofoiwane esala.
Bandits live peacefully, and no one threatens those who cause God to become angry; their own strength is the god [that they worship].
7 Be sio fi amola ohe fi da dilima olelemusa: dawa:
“But ask the wild animals [what they know about God], and [if they could speak] they would teach you. [If you could] ask the birds, they would tell you.
8 Dilia osobo bagadega amola hano wayabo bagadega esalebe liligi, amo ilia da dilima olelema: ne, adole ba: mu da defea.
[If you could] ask the creatures [that crawl] on the ground, or the fish in the sea, they would tell you [about God].
9 Ilia huluane da Hina Gode da ili hamoi, amo dawa:
All of them certainly know [RHQ] that it is Yahweh who has made them with his hands.
10 Gode Hi fawane da Ea hamoi liligi huluane, ilia esalusu ouligisa. Dunu huluane ilia esalusu da Ea gasaha diala.
He directs the lives of all living creatures; he gives breath to all [us] humans [to enable us to remain alive].
11 Be dilia! Dilia gona: su da ha: i manu ea hedai hahawane naba. Amo defele, dilia ge da udigili sia: dabe hahawane naba.
And when we [SYN] hear what other people [like you] say, we [RHQ] think carefully about what they say [to determine what is good and what is bad], like we [SYN] taste food [to determine what is good and what is bad].
Old people are [often] very wise, and because of having lived many years, they understand much,
13 Da: i hamoi dunu ilia da asigi dawa: su bagade gala. Be Gode da asigi dawa: su bagadedafa amola gasa bagade gala. E da Ea hawa: hamomu defele, gasa bagadedafa gala.
but God is wise and very powerful; he has good sense and understands [everything].
14 Gode da dunu ilia gagui liligi mugulusia, nowa da bu gaguma: bela: ? Gode da dunu amo se iasu diasu ganodini sanasisia, nowa da amo se iasu diasu logo doasima: bela: ?
If he tears [something] down, no one can rebuild it; if he puts someone in prison, no one can open [the prison doors to allow that person to escape].
15 Gode da gibu dabe logo ga: sisia, ha: bagade ba: sa. E da gibu bagade iasisia, hano da bagadewane heda: le, osobo dedebosa.
When he prevents rain from falling, everything dries up. When he causes a lot of rain to fall, [the result is that] there are floods.
16 Gode da gasa bagade amola E da Ea ha lai dunu eso huluane hasala. Ogogosu dunu amola dunu ilima ilia ogogoi, ilia gilisili Gode Ea gasaha esalebe.
He is the one who is truly strong and wise; he rules over those who deceive others and those whom they deceive.
17 Gode da ouligisu dunu ilia asigi dawa: su samogesa. E da bagade dawa: su ouligisu dunu ilia hou afadenene, amasea ilia da gagaoui dunu agoai hamosa.
He [sometimes] causes [the king’s] officials to no longer be wise, and he causes judges to become foolish.
18 E da hina bagade dunu ilia ouligibi fadegale, ili se iasu diasu ganodini sala.
He takes from kings the robes that they wear and puts loincloths around their waists, [causing them to become slaves].
19 E da gobele salasu dunu amola gasa bagade dunu, ilia hou fonobosa.
He takes from priests the sacred clothes that they wear, [with the result that they no longer can do their work], and takes power from those who rule others.
20 Osobo bagade dunu da eno dunu ilia hou dafawaneyale dawa: be. Be Gode da amo dunu ouiya: ma: ne, ilia lafi ga: sisa. E da da: i hamoi dunu ilia bagade dawa: su hou samogesa.
He [sometimes] causes those whom others trust to be unable to speak, and he causes old men to no longer have good sense.
21 E da gasa bagade ouligisu dunu gogosiama: ne hamosa, amola ilia gasa bagade hou hedofasa.
He causes those who have authority to be despised, and he causes those who are powerful to no longer have any power/strength.
22 E da gasi bagade sogebi amoga hadigi iasisa.
He causes things that are hidden in the darkness to be revealed.
23 E da fifi asi gala amo gasa bagade heda: ma: ne hamosa. Amalalu, E da amo fifi asi gala hasalasili, ili gugunufinisisa.
He causes some nations to become very great, and [later] he destroys them; he causes the territory of some nations to become much larger, and [later] he causes them to be defeated and their people to be scattered.
He causes [some] rulers to become foolish/stupid, and then he causes them to wander around, lost, in an barren desert.
25 E da ilia ouligisu dunu gagaoui dunu agoane hamosa. Amasea, ilia da udigili doulasili, gasi ganodini adini ba: i dunu defele feloasa.
They grope around in the darkness, without any light, and he causes them to stagger like [SIM] people who are drunk.”
