Job 35
1 Then Elihu continued, saying,
Bongo Eliwu alobaki:
2 “Do you think it's honest to claim you are right before God?
« Boni, okanisi ete yango ezali sembo? Olobi: ‹ Nazali sembo liboso ya Nzambe. ›
3 And you ask, ‘What benefit do I get? What good has it done me by not sinning?’
Nzokande, ozali koloba: ‹ Nakozwa nini, litomba nini nakozwa soki nasali masumu te? ›
4 I'll tell you, and your friends too!
Nalingi kopesa yo eyano, yo elongo na baninga na yo.
5 Just look up at the sky and see. Observe the clouds high above you.
Tombola miso na likolo mpe tala; mona ndenge mapata ezali likolo na yo.
6 If you sin, how does that harm God? How do your many sins affect God?
Soki osali masumu, ekosala Nzambe nini? Soki masumu na yo ezali ebele, ekosala Ye nini?
7 If you do what's right, what good are you doing for him?
Soki ozali sembo, okopesa Ye nini to akozwa nini na loboko na yo?
8 No—your sins only affect people like yourself, and whatever good you do only affects them too.
Mabe na yo ekokomela kaka bazalani na yo, bosembo na yo ezali na litomba kaka epai ya bana na bato.
9 People cry out because of terrible persecution; they call for someone to save them from their oppressors.
Bato bazali kolela na se ya mokumba ya minyoko, bazali koganga na se ya motema makasi ya bato minene.
10 But no one asks, ‘Where is the God my maker, the one who gives songs in the night,
Kasi moto moko te azali koloba: ‹ Nzambe Mokeli na ngai, Ye oyo apesaka banzembo ya esengo na butu,
11 who teaches us more than the animals, and makes us wiser than the birds?’
Ye oyo ateyaka biso koleka banyama ya mokili mpe akomisaka biso mayele koleka bandeke ya likolo, azali wapi? ›
12 When they call out for help, God doesn't answer because they are proud and evil people.
Ata bagangi, Nzambe akoyanola te, mpo na lolendo ya bato mabe.
13 God doesn't listen to their empty cries; the Almighty doesn't pay them any attention.
Pamba te, Nzambe ayokaka te maloba na bango ya pamba, Nkolo-Na-Nguya-Nyonso azalaka ata na bokebi na yango te.
14 How much less will God hear you when you say he can't see you? Your case is before him, so you have to wait for him.
Nzokande, yo ozali komeka koloba ete ozali komona Ye te, ete ozwi nanu eyano te na kolela na yo epai na Ye.
15 You're saying that God doesn't punish people in his anger and pays little attention to sin.
Mpe sik’oyo, soki kanda ya Nzambe eyei nanu likolo na yo te mpe soki Ye azali nanu kobosana maloba na yo ya soni,
16 You, Job, are talking nonsense, making long speeches when you know nothing!”
elingi koloba ete yo, Yobo, ofungoli monoko na yo kaka na pamba mpe otondisi yango na maloba ya bozoba. »
