Job 26
1 Then Job answered:
Wasephendula uJobe wathi:
2 “How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
Umsize njani ongelamandla, wasindisa ingalo engelamandla?
3 How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
Umeluleke njani ongelakuhlakanipha, watshumayela ngobunengi ulwazi oluqotho?
4 To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
Utshele bani amazwi? Njalo ngumoya kabani ophume kuwe?
5 The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
Abafileyo bayathuthumela ngaphansi kwamanzi, labahlali bawo.
Isihogo sinqunu phambi kwakhe, lencithakalo kayilasisibekelo. (Sheol h7585)
7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
Welulela inyakatho phezu kwendawo engelalutho, aphanyeke umhlaba phezu kweze.
8 He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
Uyabophela amanzi emayezini akhe, kodwa amayezi kawadabuki ngaphansi kwawo.
9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
Uyasibekela ubuso besihlalo sakhe sobukhosi, endlale iyezi phezu kwaso.
10 He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
Udwebe umngcele oyisigombolozi phezu kobuso bamanzi, kuze kube sekucineni kokukhanya lomnyama.
11 The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
Insika zamazulu ziyathuthumela, zethuswa yikukhuza kwakhe.
12 By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
Ngamandla akhe uthulisa ulwandle, langenhlakanipho yakhe uphahlaza ukuziqhenya.
13 By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
Ngomoya wakhe ucecise amazulu; isandla sakhe sagwaza inyoka ebalekayo.
14 Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”
Khangela, lokhu kungamaphethelo ezindlela zakhe; kodwa kuzwakala into encinyane kangakanani ngaye! Kanti umdumo wamandla akhe ngubani ongawuqedisisa?
