Job 26
1 Then Job made answer and said,
Wasephendula uJobe wathi:
2 How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!
Umsize njani ongelamandla, wasindisa ingalo engelamandla?
3 How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
Umeluleke njani ongelakuhlakanipha, watshumayela ngobunengi ulwazi oluqotho?
4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?
Utshele bani amazwi? Njalo ngumoya kabani ophume kuwe?
5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
Abafileyo bayathuthumela ngaphansi kwamanzi, labahlali bawo.
Isihogo sinqunu phambi kwakhe, lencithakalo kayilasisibekelo. (Sheol h7585)
7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
Welulela inyakatho phezu kwendawo engelalutho, aphanyeke umhlaba phezu kweze.
8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
Uyabophela amanzi emayezini akhe, kodwa amayezi kawadabuki ngaphansi kwawo.
9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.
Uyasibekela ubuso besihlalo sakhe sobukhosi, endlale iyezi phezu kwaso.
10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.
Udwebe umngcele oyisigombolozi phezu kobuso bamanzi, kuze kube sekucineni kokukhanya lomnyama.
11 The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.
Insika zamazulu ziyathuthumela, zethuswa yikukhuza kwakhe.
12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.
Ngamandla akhe uthulisa ulwandle, langenhlakanipho yakhe uphahlaza ukuziqhenya.
13 By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.
Ngomoya wakhe ucecise amazulu; isandla sakhe sagwaza inyoka ebalekayo.
14 See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.
Khangela, lokhu kungamaphethelo ezindlela zakhe; kodwa kuzwakala into encinyane kangakanani ngaye! Kanti umdumo wamandla akhe ngubani ongawuqedisisa?
