Yoube 9
1 Yoube da bu adole i,
Then Job replied,
2 “Ma! Na da amo sia: huluane musa: nabi dagoi. Be osobo bagade dunu da habodane Godema moloma: ne fofada: ma: bela: ?
“Yes, I certainly know that [much of] what you said is true. But (how can anyone say to God, ‘I (am innocent/have not done what is wrong) and prove it?’/no one can say to God ‘I (am innocent/have not done what is wrong) and prove it.’) [RHQ]
3 Osobo bagade dunu da Godema fofada: mu hamedei galebe. E da osia: i (1,000 agoane) adole ba: sea, nowa da Ema bu adole imunu dawa: ma: bela: ?
If someone wanted to argue with God [about that], God could ask him 1,000 questions, and that person would not be able to answer any of them!
4 Gode da asigi dawa: su bagadedafa gala amola gasa bagade gala. Osobo bagade dunu da Ema dabele sia: mu da hamedei.
God is very wise [IDM] and very powerful; no one who has tried to challenge God has been able to win.
5 E da mae sisane, goumi gaguli asili eno sogebiga ligisisa. E da ougiba: le. goumi gugunufinisisa.
He even moves mountains, without them (OR, anyone) knowing about it. When he is angry, he turns them upside down.
6 Gode da bebeda: nima iasili, osobo bagade da yagugusa. Fedege agoane, E da osobo bagade golasu ifa bai amo yagugusa.
He sends earthquakes that shake the ground; he causes the pillars that support the earth to tremble.
7 E da eso ea mabe hedofamusa: dawa: E da gasia gasumuni ilia diga: be hou hedofamusa: dawa:
[Some days] he speaks to the sun, and it does not rise, and [some nights] he prevents the stars from shining.
8 Gode Hisu da mu hahamoi. Eno dunu da E hame fidisu. Gode hisu da hano wayabo bagade ganodini esalebe ohe bagade amo ea baligiga ososa: gisa.
He alone (stretched out/put in place) the sky; he alone puts his feet on the waves (OR, on the huge sea monster).
9 Gode da gasumuni huluane muagado bugisisi. Gasumuni eno ilia dio da Bea Bagade, Olione, Bileidese, amola ga (south) gasumuni huluane.
He put in their places [the clusters/groups of stars that are called] The Dipper/Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars in the southern sky.
10 Ea gasa bagade hamobe, ninia da dawa: digimu hame dawa: Ea musa: hame ba: su hamobe da hamedafa dagomu.
Only he does great things that we cannot understand; he does more marvelous things than we are able to count.
11 Gode da bobaligila ahoa, be na da E hame ba: sa.
He passes by where I am, but I do not see him; he moves further on, but I do not see him go.
12 E da hi hanaiga liligi laha. Amola Ea logo enoga hedofamu da hamedei. Dunu huluane da beda: iba: le, Ema, “Di adi hamosala: ?” amane sia: mu da hamedei ba: sa.
If he [wants to] snatch something away, no one [RHQ] can hinder him; no one dares to ask him, ‘Why are you doing that?’ [RHQ]
13 Gode Ea ougi hou da eso huluane dialumu. Hano wayabo bagade ohe (La: iha: be) da Godema gegei. Godema ha lai dunu da La: iha: be fuligala: i. Be Gode da ili huluane hasalasi.
God will not very easily stop being angry; he defeated [MTY] those who [tried to] help Rahab, [the great sea monster].
14 Amaiba: le, na da habodane Godema bu fofada: ma: bela: ?
“So, [if God took me to court], what could I say [MTY] to answer him?
15 Na da wadela: i hou hamedafa hamoi. Be Gode da na fofada: su dunu. Amaiba: le, na da logo hame gala. E da nama asigima: ne fawane, na da Ema edegemu.
Even though I (would be innocent/would not have done what is wrong), I would not be able to answer him. All I could do would be to request God, my judge/accuser, to act mercifully toward me.
16 Be E da na Ema sia: mu logo doasisia, E da na sia: nabima: bela: ?
If I summoned him to [come to the courtroom] and he said that he would come, I would not believe that he would pay attention to what I would say.
17 E da udigili na se nabima: ne, isu gibula bobodobe, na fama: ne, iasisa.
He sends storms to batter me, and he bruises me many times (without any reason to do that/even though I am innocent).
18 Ea hamobeba: le, na da mifo lamu gogolei. Ea hamobeba: le, na esalusu da da: i dioi amoga nabai gala.
[It is as though] he will not let me get/catch my breath, because he causes me to suffer all the time.
19 Na da Ema sesele hamoma: bela: ? Osobo bagade dunu da Godema sesemu hamedei. Na da E fofada: su diasuga oule masa: bela: ? Be nowa da E amoga masa: ne sesema: bela: ?
If I would try to (wrestle with/fight against) him, [there is no way that I could defeat him, ] [because] he is stronger than I am. If I would request him to appear in court, there is no one who could [RHQ] force him to go there.
20 Na da wadela: i hou hamedafa hamoi, amola dafawaneyale dawa: su hou hame fisi. Be na sia: da wadela: i hamosu dunu ea sia: agoai gala. Na sia: be huluane da nama se dabe imunu fofada: su liligi agoai ba: sa.
Even though I was innocent, what I would say would cause him to say that I must be punished [MTY]; even though I had not done anything wrong, he would prove that I am guilty.
“I have not done what is wrong, but that is not important. I despise continuing to remain alive.
22 Na da wadela: i hou hame hamoi. Be na da da: i dioiba: le, bu hame dawa: digisa. Na da bu esalumu higa: i gala. Liligi huluane da hamedei. Gode da wadela: i dunu amola moloidafa dunu, amo defele, gugunufinisimu.
But it doesn’t matter, because God will get rid of [all of us, ] both those who are innocent and those who are wicked.
23 Moloidafa dunu da hedolo bogosea, Gode da nodosa.
When people experience disaster and it causes them to suddenly die, God laughs at it, even if they are innocent.
24 Gode da osobo bagade amo wadela: i hou hamosu dunu ilima i dagoi. E da moloidafa fofada: su dunu huluane ilia si wadela: lesi dagoi. Gode da amo hame hamoi ganiaba, nowa da hamobela: ?
God has allowed wicked people to control [what happens in] the world. [It is as though] he has caused judges to be blindfolded, [with the result that they cannot judge fairly]. If it is not God who has put wicked people in control, who has done it?
25 Na esalebe eso da hehenasa. Amo eso huluane da wadela: i gala.
“My days go by very quickly, like a fast runner; [it is as though] they run away, and nothing good happens to me on those days.
26 Na esalusu da dusagai ea hehenasu agoai gala. Na esalusu da buhiba ea ohe fonobahadi famusa: , adogomusa: hagili dabe agoane daha.
My life goes by very rapidly, like a boat made from reeds sailing swiftly, or like an eagle that swoops down to seize a small animal.
If I smile and say [to God], ‘I will forget what I am complaining about; I will stop looking sad and try to be cheerful/happy,’
28 Na da se nabasu gogolema: ne, onigisia, na da bu se naba. Gode da na da wadela: le hamosu dunu dawa: sa.
then I become afraid because of all that I am suffering, because I know that God does not consider that I am innocent.
29 Amaiba: le, Gode da nama fofada: nanu, na da wadela: i dunu sia: beba: le, na da abuliba: le Ema dawa: ma: bela: ?
He will (condemn me/declare that I should be punished), so why should I keep trying in vain [to defend myself]?
30 Safoga da na wadela: i hou dodofemu hamedei galebe.
If I washed myself with snow or cleansed my hands with lye/soap [to get rid of my guilt],
31 Gode da na amola ledo bagade gilisili uli dogoiga ha: digi dagoi. Fedege agoane, na abula da na da: i hodo ba: sea, gogosiasa.
he would still throw me into a filthy pit; as a result [it would be as though] even my clothes would detest me.
32 Gode da osobo bagade dunu ganiaba, na da Ema adole ia: noba. Ania da sia: ga gegei hahamoma: ne, fofada: su diasuga ahoa: noba.
“God is not a human, as I am, so there is no way that I could answer him [to prove that I am innocent] if we went together to have a trial [in a courtroom].
33 Be ania dogoa aligili, gaga: su dunu da hame gala. Gode amola na, anima fofada: su dunu da hamedafa.
There is no one to (mediate/hear us and decide who is right), no one who has authority over both of us [IDM].
34 Gode! Nama se iabe yolesima! Na bu beda: ma: ne, maedafa hamoma!
I wish/desire that he would stop punishing [MTY] me, and that he would not continue to terrify me.
35 Na da Dima hame beda: i! Na da sia: mu! Bai na da na asigi dawa: su dawa: !
If he did that, I would declare [that I am innocent] without being afraid of him, because I know that I really have not [done what is wrong like God thinks that I have].”
