Ayub 17
1 Chunya onyosore, ndalona ongʼad machiek, kendo thona ema chiegni koda.
My spirit, is broken, My days, are extinguished, Graves, are left me.
2 Jogo ma nyiera olwora koni gi koni; kendo asiko mana kaneno gero ma gin-go koda.
Verily there are mockers, with me! And, on their insults, mine eye doth rest.
3 “Yaye Nyasaye, nyisa gima idwaro. En ngʼa machielo mabiro rita?
Appoint it, I pray thee—be thou surety for me with thyself, Who is there that, on my side, can pledge himself?
4 Isedino pachgi mondo kik gifweny adiera; omiyo ok ibi yie mondo gibed joloch.
For, their heart, hast thou kept back from understanding, On this account, thou wilt not exalt them.
5 Ka ngʼato ondhogo osiepne mondo oyud mwandu to gima otimono nyaka dongʼ ewi nyithinde.
He that, for a share, denounceth friends, even, the eyes of his children, shall be dim.
6 “Nyasaye osemiyo abedo ngʼama ji duto goyo ngero kendo ma ka ji oneno to ngʼudho kuome olawo.
But he hath set me, as the byword of peoples, And, one to be spit on in the face, do I become.
7 Wengena koro ok nen maber nikech kuyo ma an-go; denda duto olokore choke lilo.
Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.
8 Joma paro ni gin joma kare kibaji omako; kendo joma paro ni ler wacho ni ok angʼeyo Nyasaye.
Upright men shall be astounded over this, and, the innocent, against the impious, shall rouse themselves.
9 Kata kamano, joma kare nosik koluwo yoregi makare, kendo joma yoregi oriere nomed bedo motegno.
That the righteous may hold on his way, and, the clean of hands, increase in strength.
10 “Un duto weyauru kendo dhiuru mabor nikech ok aneno ngʼama riek kuomu-ka.
But indeed, as for them all, will ye bethink yourselves and enter into it, I pray you? Or shall I not find, among you, one who is wise?
11 Ndalona osekadho, chenrona duto osekethore, kaachiel gi gik moko duto ma chunya gombo.
My days, are past, my purposes, are broken off, the possessions of my heart!
12 Jogi loko otieno mi bed odiechiengʼ; ka piny otimo mudho to giwacho ni, ‘Ler ni machiegni.’
Night for day, they appoint, Light, is near, by reason of darkness!
13 Ka dipo ni dala ma ageno dhiye en mana liel kende, kata kapo ni apedho kitandana e mudho, (Sheol h7585)
If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch; (Sheol h7585)
14 ka dipo ni awacho ne kethruok ni, ‘In e wuonwa,’ kendo aluongo kudni ni, ‘minwa,’ kata ni, ‘nyamera,’
To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm.
15 to koro geno mara ni kune? En ngʼa manyalo neno geno moro amora ma an-go?
Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it!
