Job 15
1 And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,
Na Temanni Elifas buaa sɛ,
2 Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?
“Enti onyansafoɔ de nsɛm a aba biara nni muo bɛyi nʼano anaasɛ ɔde apueeɛ mframa a emu yɛ hye bɛhyɛ nʼafuru ma?
3 Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?
Ɔde nsɛm huhuo bɛdi anobaabaeɛ, aka nsɛm a ɛntu bunu biara anaa?
4 Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.
Wototo onyamesuro ase mmom na wosi Onyankopɔn mu ahotosoɔ ho ɛkwan.
5 For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
Wo bɔne kyerɛ wʼano deɛ ɔnka; na woafa aniteɛ tɛkrɛma.
6 It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.
Wo ankasa wʼano bu wo kumfɔ, ɛnyɛ me deɛ; wʼankasa wʼano di adanseɛ tia wo.
7 Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?
“Wone onipa a wɔwoo wo dii ɛkan? Wɔwoo wo ansa na wɔrewo nkokoɔ?
8 Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?
Wotie Onyankopɔn afotuo anaa? Wo nko ara na wonim nyansa anaa?
9 What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?
Ɛdeɛn na wonim a, yɛnnim? Nhunumu bɛn na wowɔ a yɛnnie?
10 With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.
Deɛ wafu dwono ne akɔkoraa wɔ yɛn afa, wɔn a wɔanyini sene wʼagya mpo.
11 Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?
Onyankopɔn awerɛkyekyerɛ ne nsɛm a wɔka no brɛoo kyerɛ wo no sua ma wo anaa?
12 Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;
Adɛn enti na wʼakoma atwe wo korɔ adɛn enti na wʼani asɔ ogya,
13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?
na woadane wʼabofuo agu Onyankopɔn so na woma saa nsɛm yi pue firi wʼano?
14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
“Ɔdasani ne hwan a ɔbɛtumi ayɛ pɛ, anaasɛ deɛ ɔbaa awo noɔ bɛn na ɔbɛtumi ayɛ ɔteneneeni?
15 Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;
Onyankopɔn nni ahotosoɔ wɔ nʼakronkronfoɔ mu. Ɔsorosoro mpo nnyɛ kronn wɔ nʼani so,
16 How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
na nkantom onipa bɔnefoɔ ne omumuyɛfoɔ a ɔnom awurukasɛm sɛ nsuo.
17 Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen:
“Tie me, na mɛkyerɛ wo mu; ma menka deɛ mahunu nkyerɛ wo,
18 (The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;
deɛ anyansafoɔ apae mu aka, a wɔamfa biribiara a wɔnya firii wɔn agyanom hɔ no ansie
19 For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them: )
(wɔn a wɔde asase no maa wɔn ɛberɛ a ananafoɔ biara nni hɔ):
20 The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.
Omumuyɛfoɔ kɔ ahohiahia mu ne nkwanna nyinaa. Na basabasayɛni nso, wɔahyehyɛ ne mfeɛ nyinaa ama no.
21 A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:
Nnyegyeɛ a ɛyɛ hu hyɛ nʼasom ma; na sɛ ɛyɛ sɛ nneɛma rekɔ yie ma no a, akorɔmfoɔ to hyɛ ne so.
22 He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;
Ɔpa aba sɛ ɔbɛdwane afiri esum mu; wɔabɔ no ato hɔ ama akofena.
23 He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:
Ɔkyinkyini hwehwɛ aduane; ɔnim sɛ esum da no abɛn.
24 He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:
Ɔhaw ne ahoyera yi no hu; ɛhyɛ ne so sɛ ɔhene a wasiesie ne ho ama ɔko,
25 Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,
ɛfiri sɛ ɔtenetene ne nsa kyerɛ Onyankopɔn na ɔma ne ho so tia Otumfoɔ.
26 Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,
Wɔde akokyɛm a emu pi na ɛyɛ den kɔ ne so a wɔnsuro no.
27 Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;
“Ɛwom sɛ sradeɛ ama wɔn afono atotɔ na wɔn asene mu ɛnam agu mmɛbɛ deɛ,
28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.
nanso wɔbɛtena nkuro a aguo so na wɔatena afie a obi nte mu, afie a ɛrebubu mu.
29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.
Wɔrenkɔ so nyɛ adefoɔ bio, na wɔn ahonya rennyina, na wɔn agyapadeɛ so bɛte na ayera wɔ asase so.
30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.
Esum bɛduru wɔn; ogyaframa bɛkusa wɔn mman, na Onyankopɔn anom ahomeguo bɛsoa wɔn akɔ.
31 Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.
Ɛnsɛ sɛ wɔde wɔn ho to nneɛma huhuo so de daadaa wɔn ho, ɛfiri sɛ wɔrennya hwee mfiri mu.
32 His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.
Ansa na wɔn da bɛduru no, wɔbɛtua wɔn ka a ebi renka, na wɔn mman renyɛ frɔmfrɔm.
33 He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.
Wɔbɛyɛ sɛ bobedua a wɔapore so aba a ɛnnyiniiɛ, te sɛ ngo dua a ne nhyerɛnne repore gu fam.
34 For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.
Na abɔnefoɔ fekuo a wɔnnim Onyankopɔn no renso aba, na ogya bɛhye wɔn a wɔdɔ kɛtɛasehyɛ no ntomadan.
35 Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.
Wɔnyinsɛn ɔhaw na wɔwo amumuyɛ; wɔn awotwaa siesie nnaadaa.”
