Job 35
1 And Elihu went on to say:
U-Elihu wasesithi:
2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
“Ukhumbula ukuthi lokhu kulungile yini? Uthi, ‘Ngizagezwa nguNkulunkulu.’
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
Kodwa uyambuza uthi, ‘Kungisiza ngani lokhu na, njalo ngizuzani ngokungenzi isono?’
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
Ngithanda ukukuphendula kanye labangane bakho abalapha.
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Ake ukhangele emazulwini ubone; khangela amayezi aphakeme kangaka ngaphezu kwakho.
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
Ungaze wenze isono, lokho kumthinta ngani na? Nxa izono zakho zizinengi, kwenzani lokho kuye na?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
Nxa ulungile, kuyini omnika khona wena na, kumbe yena wamukelani esandleni sakho?
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Ububi bakho bulimaza kuphela umuntu onjengawe, lokulunga kwakho kuthinta amadodana abantu kuphela.
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
Abantu bayakhala ngomthwalo wokuncindezelwa; bacela ukuphunyuzwa ezingalweni zalabo abalamandla.
10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
Kodwa kakho othi, ‘Ungaphi uNkulunkulu uMenzi wami na, opha amahubo ebusuku,
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
osifundisayo thina kulezinyamazana zalapha emhlabeni asenze sihlakaniphe kulezinyoni zasemoyeni?’
12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Kaphenduli nxa abantu bebiza ngenxa yokuziphakamisa kwababi.
13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
Ngempela uNkulunkulu kakulaleli ukuncenga kwabo kwamanga; uSomandla kayilaleli into enjalo.
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,
Kuzakuba njani pho, angakulalela nxa usithi kawumboni, usithi indaba yakho iphambi kwakhe ngakho kuzamele ulinde yena,
15 and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
njalo futhi, ukuthi ulaka lwakhe kalujezisi njalo akabunanzi lakancane ububi.
16 So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
Yikho uJobe evula umlomo wakhe ekhuluma ize; ngokuswela ulwazi wandisa amazwi.”
