Job 35
1 And Elihu went on to say:
Le hoe ty natovo’ i Eliho:
2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
Atao’o mahity hao i nanoe’o ty hoe, Izaho ro vantañe te aman’ Añahare.
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
Fa hoe irehe, Inoñe ty ho tombo’e ho azo? Ino ty ho tambeko mandikoatse te tsy nandilatse?
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
Hanoiñe azo naho o rañe’o mindre ama’oo iraho.
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Mitalakesa mb’andikerañe ey vaho Mahaisaha; Heheke o rahoñeo, ambòne’o iereo.
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
Ihe mandilatse, Mijoy aze hao? Ie bey hakeo, Inoñe ty anoe’o ama’e?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
Ie vantan-drehe, ino ty atolo’o aze, ke ino ty rambese’e am-pità’o?
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Ho ama’ ondaty manahak’ azo ty hatsivokara’o naho amo ana’ ondatio ty havañona’o.
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
O hamarom-pamorekekeañeo ty itoreova’ iareo, ty sira maoza’ i maroy ty ikaiha’iareo,
10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
fe tsy eo ty manao: Aia t’i Andrianamboatse ahy, i Mpañomey sabo an-kaleñey,
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
i mañòke raha maro amantika te amo bibi’ ty tane toioy, vaho ampahihire’e ambone’ o voron-tiokeo?
12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Eo ty mikaike, f’ie tsy manoiñe ty amy firengevoha’ ondaty raty tserekeoy.
13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
Toe tsy janjin’ Añahare ty raha kafoake; tsy haoñe’ i El-Sadai,
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,
Antsake t’ie manao te tsy mahaoniñe aze; aolo’e eo ty enta’o, aa le liñiso;
15 and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
Ie henaneo, mbe tsy nitilihe’e an-kaviñera’e, tsy loho nihaoñe’e o fandilarañeo.
16 So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
Aa le evoñe ty aakam-palie’ Iobe; ampitomboa’e lañonañe tsy aman-kilala.
