Ayub 16
1 Eka Ayub nodwoko ni,
Then Job answered and said,
2 “Asewinjo weche machal kamago mathoth; un duto un johocho ma chunygi odhier mogik!
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all.
3 Wecheu moywarego biro rumo karangʼo? Koso utuo, momiyo usiko gi mino wach?
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4 Ka dabed ni un ema uwinjo marach kaka awinjoni, to an bende anyalo wuoyo mana kaka uwuoyono; dikoro arogonu gi weche ma ok rum kendo dikoro akinonu wiya.
I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.
5 To dhoga dine ojiwou; kendo hoch mawuok e dhoga dine odwogo chunyu.
[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of my lips should assuage [your grief].
6 “To kata awuo manade, to rem ma an-go medore ameda; to kata ka aweyo wuoyo to bende ok orum.
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased?
7 Kuom adier, yaye Nyasaye, isedwoka piny mogik, isetieko joga duto pep.
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8 Isemaka kaka jasiki, mi adhero ma adongʼ choke lilo, kendo mano miyo ji paro ni an jasiki.
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
9 Nyasaye ok dwara omiyo osegoyo denda gi tuoche magalagala ka en gi mirima kendo kokayona lake, ka wasika to juolona wangʼ-gi ka gisin koda.
He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10 Ji ngʼamo dhogi ka gijara; Githalo lemba ka gisin koda, kendo ginur kuoma giduto ka giriwona.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves against me.
11 Nyasaye osejwangʼa e lwet joma timbegi richo adier Nyasaye osewita e lwet jo-mahundu.
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
12 Gik moko duto ne dhina maber, to koro osetieka; mi omaka gi ngʼuta kendo otura matindo tindo. Osechoma tir;
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
13 kendo aserni mage olwora koni gi koni. Gisechwoya mi iya oo piny e lowo, to eka pod ok okecha.
His archers encompass me; he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14 Ohinyo denda kinde ka kinde; kendo omonja ka jalweny ma chunye okethore.
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
15 “Asetwangʼo pien gugru mi arwako kendo asebuko lela wangʼa gi buru.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
16 Ywak osemiyo wangʼa olokore makwar, kendo wangʼa osiko neno mana mudho;
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [are] the shades of death;
17 to lwetena pok otimo tim mahundu kata dichiel kendo alamo Nyasaye gi chuny maler.
Not for [any] injustice in my hands: also my prayer [is] pure.
18 “Yaye lowo, kik iyie iyik remba; mad ywak ma aywakgo kik rum!
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19 Kata mana sani ngʼat matimo nenda maber ni e polo, ngʼat mabiro chungʼ ka chwaka ni malo.
Also now, behold, my witness [is] in heaven, and my record [is] on high.
20 Osiepena jara to pi wangʼa chwer ka akwayo Nyasaye mondo odwok lamona;
My friends scorn me: [but] my eye poureth out [tears] to God.
21 okwayo Nyasaye kolamo kar ngʼama chielo mana kaka ngʼato nyalo kwechone osiepne.
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbor!
22 “Adongʼ gi higni matin nono, bangʼe to abiro dhi kama ok duogie.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
