Job 35
1 Moreover Elihu answered and said,
UElihu wasephendula wathi:
2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
Ukhumbula ukuthi lokhu kuqondile yini? Uthe: Ukulunga kwami kwedlula okukaNkulunkulu.
3 For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?
Ngoba uthe kusizani kuwe, kungisizani okwedlula isono sami?
4 I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.
Mina ngizakuphendula, labangane bakho kanye lawe.
5 Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.
Khangela amazulu ubone; ukhangele amayezi, aphakeme kulawe.
6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Uba usona, wenzani kuye? Uba iziphambeko zakho zizinengi, wenzani kuye?
7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand?
Uba ulungile, umnikani, kumbe wemukelani esandleni sakho?
8 Thy wickedness [may affect] a man as thou [art], and thy righteousness a son of man.
Ububi bakho buthinta umuntu onjengawe, lokulunga kwakho indodana yomuntu.
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty:
Ngenxa yobunengi bencindezelo babenza bakhale; bayakhala ngenxa yengalo yabalamandla.
10 But none saith, Where is God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night,
Kodwa kakho othi: Ungaphi uNkulunkulu umenzi wami, onika amahubo ebusuku,
11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?
osifundisa okwedlula inyamazana zomhlaba, asenze sihlakaniphe okwedlula inyoni zamazulu?
12 There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men.
Lapho bayakhala, kodwa kaphenduli, ngenxa yokuzigqaja kwababi.
13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Isibili uNkulunkulu kayikuzwa ize, loSomandla kayikukunanza.
14 Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him.
Yebo, lanxa usithi: Kawumboni, kanti isahlulelo siphambi kwakhe; ngakho umlindele.
15 But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not [Job] know [his] great arrogancy?
Kodwa khathesi, ngoba intukuthelo yakhe ingajezisanga, laye kayikwejwayela kakhulu yini ukuziphakamisa?
16 For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.
Ngakho uJobe uvule umlomo wakhe ngeze, wandisa amazwi engelalwazi.
