Yoube 14
1 Nini huluane da gasa hamedei amola hahani agoane lalelegei. Ninia esalusu da dunumuni amola amo ganodini bidi hamosu da defele hamosa.
“We humans are very frail. We live only a short time, and we experience a lot of trouble.
2 Nini da sogea heda: be defele hedolo heda: le, bu hedolo duginidaha, amola nini da baba gala: be defele fonobahadi ba: lu, bu hedolo geasa.
We disappear quickly, like flowers that grow from the ground quickly and then wither and die [SIM]. We are like shadows that disappear [when the sun stops shining].
3 Gode! Na da hamedeiba: le, Dia na ba: ma: bela: ? Di da nama adoba: ma: ne fofada: ma: bela: ?
[Yahweh, ] why do you keep watching me [to see if I am doing something that is wrong] [RHQ]? Are you wanting to take me to court to judge me?
4 Ninia osobo bagade dunu da ledo bagade gala. Fofoloi liligi da ninima gadili masunu hamedei.
People are sinners from the time when they are born; who can cause them to be sinless? No one [RHQ]!
5 Gode! Di da ninia esalumu ode amola oubi amo ninia hame lalelegei esoga ilegesa. Di da amo ilegeiba: le, bu afadenemu da hamedeidafa.
You have decided how long our lives will be. You have decided how many months we will live, and we cannot live more months than the (limit/number of months) that you have decided.
6 Ninima sosodobe yolesima! Nini yolesima! Ninia da se nabawane esala. Be ninia da fonobahadi hahawane esaloma: ne, Di nini yolesima!
So please stop examining us, and allow us to be alone, until/while we finish our time [here on earth], like a man finishes his work [at the end of the day].
7 Ifa daou da dafawane hamoma: beyale dawa: su gala. E da abi dagoi be e da bu gahegini lula dada: sa.
If someone cuts a tree down, we hope that it will sprout again and grow new branches.
8 Osobo hagudu, ifa ea daou amola difi da nuisa.
Its roots in the ground may be very old, and its stump may decay,
9 Be hano da dialebeba: le bu gahegini ulu heda: sa.
but if some water falls on it, it may bud/sprout and send up shoots like a young plant.
10 Be dunu da bogosea, e da fisi dagoi ba: sa. E da bogosea, habidili ba: ma: bela: ?
But when we people lose all our strength and die, we stop breathing and then we are gone [forever].
11 Amo da hano dalu yolebe, amola hano wayabo habe, amo defele,
Just like water evaporates from the ocean, or like a riverbed dries up,
12 dunu da bogosea, hamedafa wa: legadosa. Mu da mae mugululi dialeawane, ilia da hamedafa wa: legadomu amola ilia golai da hame nedigimu.
people [lie down and die and] do not get up again. Until the heavens disappear, people who die [EUP] do not wake up, and no one can wake them up.
13 Di da na bogoi dunu ilia sogebi amoga wamolegemu, na da hanai gala. Na da wamolegei dialea, Dia ougi da gumisia fawane, Dia na bu dawa: ma: ne eso ilegema. (Sheol h7585)
[“Yahweh, ] I wish that you would put me safely in the place of the dead and forget about me until you are no longer angry with me. I wish that you would decide how much time I would spend there, and then remember [that] I [am there]. (Sheol h7585)
14 Dunu afae da bogosea, e da bu uhini misa: bela: ? Hame mabu! Be na da amo bidi hamosu dagoma: ne, amola hahawane eso bu misa: ne, na da ouesalumu.
When we humans die, we will certainly not live again [RHQ]. If [I knew that] we would live again, I would wait patiently, and I would wait for you to release me [from my sufferings].
15 Amasea, Di da nama wele sia: sea, na da dabe adole imunu. Amola Di da na (Dia hamoi liligi) hahawane ba: mu.
You would call me, and I would answer. You would be eager to see me, one of the creatures that you had made.
16 Amasea, Di da na osa: le gaga ahoabe huluane ba: mu. Be Di da na wadela: le hamobe hame abodelalumu.
You would take care of [MET] me, instead of watching me to see if I would sin.
17 Di da na wadela: i hou huluanedafa gogolema: ne olofomu.
[It is as though the record of] my sins would be sealed in a small bag, and you would cover them up.
18 Eso da misunu amoga goumi da mugululi sa: imu, amola gasa bagade gafulu da agele sa: imu.
“But, just like mountains crumble and rocks fall down from a cliff,
19 Hano da magufu dogosa, amola gibu bagade da osobo dogone fasisa. Amo defele, Di da ninia dafawane esaloma: beyale dawa: su gugunufinisisa.
and just like water slowly wears away the stones, and just like floods wash away soil, [you eventually destroy us]; you do not allow us to continue to (hope/confidently expect) [that we will keep on living].
20 Di da Dia gasaga osobo bagade dunu banenesili, e bu hamedafa misa: ne, sefasisa. E da bogobeba: le, odagi momogosa.
You always defeat us, and then we die [EUP]. You cause our faces to look ugly after we die, and you send us away.
21 Eno dunu da ea manoma nodosa. Be e da amo hou hame dawa: sa. Amola ea mano da gogosiasu ba: sea, Dia da ema hame adosa.
[When we die] we do not know if our sons will grow up and [do things that will cause them to] be honored. And if they become disgraced, we do not see that, [either].
22 E da ea da: i hodo se fawane naba. Amola ea asigi dawa: su da: i dioi fawane naba.
We will feel our own pains; we will not feel anything else; we will be sorry for ourselves, not for anyone else.”
