Job 35
1 And Elihu went on to say:
Bongo Eliwu alobaki:
2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
« Boni, okanisi ete yango ezali sembo? Olobi: ‹ Nazali sembo liboso ya Nzambe. ›
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
Nzokande, ozali koloba: ‹ Nakozwa nini, litomba nini nakozwa soki nasali masumu te? ›
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
Nalingi kopesa yo eyano, yo elongo na baninga na yo.
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Tombola miso na likolo mpe tala; mona ndenge mapata ezali likolo na yo.
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
Soki osali masumu, ekosala Nzambe nini? Soki masumu na yo ezali ebele, ekosala Ye nini?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
Soki ozali sembo, okopesa Ye nini to akozwa nini na loboko na yo?
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Mabe na yo ekokomela kaka bazalani na yo, bosembo na yo ezali na litomba kaka epai ya bana na bato.
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
Bato bazali kolela na se ya mokumba ya minyoko, bazali koganga na se ya motema makasi ya bato minene.
10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
Kasi moto moko te azali koloba: ‹ Nzambe Mokeli na ngai, Ye oyo apesaka banzembo ya esengo na butu,
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
Ye oyo ateyaka biso koleka banyama ya mokili mpe akomisaka biso mayele koleka bandeke ya likolo, azali wapi? ›
12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Ata bagangi, Nzambe akoyanola te, mpo na lolendo ya bato mabe.
13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
Pamba te, Nzambe ayokaka te maloba na bango ya pamba, Nkolo-Na-Nguya-Nyonso azalaka ata na bokebi na yango te.
14 How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
Nzokande, yo ozali komeka koloba ete ozali komona Ye te, ete ozwi nanu eyano te na kolela na yo epai na Ye.
15 and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
Mpe sik’oyo, soki kanda ya Nzambe eyei nanu likolo na yo te mpe soki Ye azali nanu kobosana maloba na yo ya soni,
16 So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
elingi koloba ete yo, Yobo, ofungoli monoko na yo kaka na pamba mpe otondisi yango na maloba ya bozoba. »
