Yobu 35
1 Ndipo Elihu anawonjeza kunena kuti,
Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
2 “Kodi mukuganiza kuti mukukhoza? Mukunena kuti, ‘Ndine wolungama pamaso pa Mulungu.’
Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?
3 Komanso inu mukufunsa kuti, ‘Kodi phindu langa nʼchiyani, ndipo ndimapeza chiyani ndikapanda kuchimwa?’
For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4 “Ine ndikufuna ndikuyankheni inu pamodzi ndi abwenzi anu omwe.
I will answer you, and your companions with you.
5 Yangʼanani kumwamba ndipo muone mitambo imene ili kutali ndi inuyo.
Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
6 Inuyo mukachimwa, Iye zimamukhudza motani? Ngati machimo anu ndi ochuluka, zimenezo zimachita chiyani kwa Iye?
If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?
7 Ngati inu ndinu wolungama, mumamupatsa Iyeyo chiyani? Kapena Iye amalandira chiyani chochokera mʼdzanja lanu?
If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
8 Kuyipa kwanu kumangokhudza anthu ngati inuyo, ndipo chilungamo chanu chimakhudza anthu anzanu.
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
9 “Anthu akufuwula chifukwa cha kuzunzidwa; akufuna chithandizo kuti achoke pansi pa ulamuliro wa anthu amphamvu.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10 Koma palibe amene akunena kuti, ‘Kodi ali kuti Mulungu, Mlengi wanga, amene amatisangalatsa nthawi ya usiku,
But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
11 amene amatiphunzitsa kupambana nyama za dziko lapansi ndipo amatipatsa nzeru kupambana mbalame zowuluka?’
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12 Iye sayankha pamene anthu akufuwulira kwa Iye chifukwa cha kudzikuza kwa anthu oyipa.
There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Ndithu, Mulungu samva kupempha kwawo kopanda pake; Wamphamvuzonse sasamalira zimenezi.
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 Ndipo ndi bodza lalikulu kunena kuti Iye saona zimene zikuchitika. Iye adzaweruza molungama ngati inu mutamudikira
Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.
15 ndiye tsono popeza kuti ukali wake sukupereka chilango, zoyipa zambiri zimene anthu amachita,
But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
16 abambo Yobu mumangoyankhula zopandapake, mukungochulukitsa mawu opanda nzeru.”
Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
