Job 15
1 Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,
Pamenepo Elifazi wa ku Temani anayankha kuti,
2 Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,
“Kodi munthu wanzeru angayankhe ndi mawu achabechabe otere, kapena angakhutitse mimba yake ndi mphepo yotentha yochokera kummawa?
3 reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit?
Kodi angathe kutsutsa ndi mawu opanda pake, kapena kuyankhula mawu opanda phindu?
4 Hast not you moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?
Koma iwe ukuchepetsa zoopa Mulungu ndipo ukutchinga zodzikhuthulira kwa Mulungu.
5 You are guilty by the words of your mouth, neither have you discerned the words of the mighty.
Tchimo lako ndiye likuyankhulitsa pakamwa pakopo; ndipo watengera mayankhulidwe a atambwali.
6 Let your own mouth, and not me, reprove you: and your lips shall testify against you.
Pakamwa pakopo ndiye pakukutsutsa osati pakamwa panga; milomo yakoyo ikukutsutsa.
7 What! are you the first man that was born? or were you established before the hills?
“Kodi ndiwe munthu woyamba kubadwa? Kodi unalengedwa mapiri asanalengedwe?
8 Or have you heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used you as [his] counsellor? and has wisdom come [only] to you?
Kodi unali mʼgulu la alangizi a Mulungu? Kodi ukudziyesa wanzeru ndiwe wekha?
9 For what know you, that, we know not? or what understand you, which we do not also?
Kodi iwe umadziwa chiyani chimene ife sitichidziwa? Kodi iwe uli ndi chidziwitso chanji chimene ife tilibe?
10 Truly amongst us [are] both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than your father.
Anthu a imvi ndi okalamba ali mbali yathu, anthu amvulazakale kupambana abambo ako.
11 You have been scourged for [but] few of your sins: you have spoken haughtily [and] extravagantly.
Kodi mawu otonthoza mtima ochokera kwa Mulungu sakukukwanira, mawu oyankhula mofatsawa kwa iwe?
12 What has your heart dared? or what have your eyes [aimed at],
Chifukwa chiyani ukupsa mtima, ndipo chifukwa chiyani ukutuzula maso ako,
13 that you have vented [your] rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from [your] mouth?
moti ukupsera mtima Mulungu ndi kuyankhula mawu otero pakamwa pako?
14 For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? or, [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just?
“Kodi munthu nʼchiyani kuti nʼkukhala woyera mtima kapena wobadwa mwa amayi nʼchiyani kuti nʼkukhala wolungama mtima?
15 Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.
Ngati Mulungu sakhulupirira ngakhale angelo ake, ngakhale zakumwamba sizoyera pamaso pake,
16 Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.
nanga kuli bwanji munthu amene ndi wonyansa ndi wa njira zokhotakhota, amene kuchita zoyipa kuli ngati kumwa madzi.
17 But I will tell you, listen to me; I will tell you now what I have seen;
“Mvetsera kwa ine ndipo ndidzakufotokozera; ndilole ndikuwuze zimene ndaziona,
18 things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.
zimene anandiphunzitsa anthu anzeru, sanandibisire kalikonse kamene anamva kuchokera kwa makolo awo.
19 To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them.
(Ndi kwa iwowa kumene dziko lino linaperekedwa pamene panalibe mlendo wokhala pakati pawo).
20 All the life of the ungodly [is spent] in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.
Munthu woyipa amavutika ndi masautso masiku onse a moyo wake, munthu wankhanza adzavutika zaka zake zonse.
21 And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.
Amamva mawu owopsa mʼmakutu mwake, pamene zonse zikuoneka ngati zili bwino, anthu achifwamba amamuthira nkhondo.
22 Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.
Iye sakhulupirira kuti angathe kupulumuka ku mdima wa imfa; iyeyo ndi woyenera kuphedwa.
23 And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.
Amangoyendayenda pali ponse kunka nafuna chakudya; amadziwa kuti tsiku la mdima lili pafupi.
24 Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank.
Masautso ndi nthumanzi zimamuchititsa mantha kwambiri; zimamugonjetsa iye monga imachitira mfumu yokonzekera kukathira nkhondo,
25 For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.
chifukwa iye amatambasula dzanja lake kuyambana ndi Mulungu ndipo amadzitama yekha polimbana ndi Wamphamvuzonse.
26 And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.
Amapita mwa mwano kukalimbana naye atanyamula chishango chochindikala ndi cholimba.
27 For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.
“Ngakhale nkhope yake ndi yonenepa ndipo mʼchiwuno mwake muli mnofu wambiri,
28 And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.
munthuyo adzakhala mʼmizinda yowonongeka ndi mʼnyumba zosayenera kukhalamo anthu, nyumba zimene zikugwa ndi kuwonongeka.
29 Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.
Iye sadzalemeranso ndipo chuma chake sichidzakhalitsa, ngakhale minda yake sidzabala zipatso pa dziko lapansi.
30 Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.
Iyeyo sadzapulumuka mu mdimamo; lawi lamoto lidzawumitsa nthambi zake, ndipo mpweya wochokera mʼkamwa mwa Mulungu udzamusesa.
31 Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.
Asadzinyenge yekha podalira zinthu zachabechabe, pakuti pa mapeto pake sadzaphulapo kanthu.
32 His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.
Iye adzalandira malipiro ake nthawi yake isanakwane, ndipo nthambi zake sizidzaphukanso.
33 And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.
Iye adzakhala ngati mtengo wamphesa wopululidwa zipatso zake zisanapse, adzakhala ngati mtengo wa olivi umene wayoyola maluwa ake.
34 For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.
Pakuti anthu osapembedza Mulungu adzakhala osabala ndipo moto udzapsereza nyumba za onse okonda ziphuphu.
35 And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.
Iwo amalingalira zaupandu ndipo amachita zoyipa; mtima wawo umakonzekera zachinyengo.”
