Job 35
1 And Elihu went on to say:
UElihu wasephendula wathi:
2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
Ukhumbula ukuthi lokhu kuqondile yini? Uthe: Ukulunga kwami kwedlula okukaNkulunkulu.
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
Ngoba uthe kusizani kuwe, kungisizani okwedlula isono sami?
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
Mina ngizakuphendula, labangane bakho kanye lawe.
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Khangela amazulu ubone; ukhangele amayezi, aphakeme kulawe.
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
Uba usona, wenzani kuye? Uba iziphambeko zakho zizinengi, wenzani kuye?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
Uba ulungile, umnikani, kumbe wemukelani esandleni sakho?
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Ububi bakho buthinta umuntu onjengawe, lokulunga kwakho indodana yomuntu.
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
Ngenxa yobunengi bencindezelo babenza bakhale; bayakhala ngenxa yengalo yabalamandla.
10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
Kodwa kakho othi: Ungaphi uNkulunkulu umenzi wami, onika amahubo ebusuku,
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
osifundisa okwedlula inyamazana zomhlaba, asenze sihlakaniphe okwedlula inyoni zamazulu?
12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Lapho bayakhala, kodwa kaphenduli, ngenxa yokuzigqaja kwababi.
13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
Isibili uNkulunkulu kayikuzwa ize, loSomandla kayikukunanza.
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,
Yebo, lanxa usithi: Kawumboni, kanti isahlulelo siphambi kwakhe; ngakho umlindele.
15 and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
Kodwa khathesi, ngoba intukuthelo yakhe ingajezisanga, laye kayikwejwayela kakhulu yini ukuziphakamisa?
16 So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
Ngakho uJobe uvule umlomo wakhe ngeze, wandisa amazwi engelalwazi.
