< Job 35 >

1 Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
OLELO aku la hoi o Elihu, i aku la,
2 Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?
Ke manao nei oe he pono keia, O kau i olelo mai, O ko'u pono, ua oi mamua o ko ke Akua?
3 For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
No ka mea, ua ninau mai oe, Heaha ka pono no'u? Heaha hoi ko'u pomaikai no kuu hewa ole ana?
4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.
Owau ke hoihoi aku ia olelo iou la, A i kou mau hoalauna me oe.
5 Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
E nana ae oe i ka lani, a ike; A e nana i na ao, ua kiekie lakou mamua ou.
6 If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?
Ina e hana hewa oe, heaha kau hana ia ia? Ina e hoonuiia kou mau hala, heaha kau e hana'i nana?
7 If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
Ina ua pono oe, heaha kau e haawi aku ai ia ia? Heaha kana e loaa'i mai kou lima aku?
8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
No ke kanaka e like me oe kou hala, A no ke keiki a ke kanaka kou pono.
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Ke uwe ae nei ka poe kaumaha no ka hooluhiia; I uwe lakou no ka lima o na mea koikoi.
10 But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
Aka, aole e i mai kekahi, Auhea ke Akua nana au i hana, Ka mea i haawi mai i na mele olioli i ka po;
11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
O ka mea i ao mai ia kakou mamua o na holoholona o ka honua, A ua hoonaauao oia ia kakou mamua o na manu o ka lewa?
12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Malaila lakou e uwe ai, aole mea i ekemu mai, No ka haaheo o ka poe hewa.
13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
He oiaio, aole ke Akua e hoolohe mai i ka mea wahahee, Aole ka Mea mana e maliu mai ia.
14 Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.
Ina paha e olelo oe, aole oe i ike ia ia, Imua ona ka hooponopono, nolaila e kali aku oe ia ia.
15 But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
Ano hoi, he mea ole ka hoopai ana o kona inaina, Aole ia e haka pono mai i na hewa;
16 Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
Nolaila i oaka hewa mai ai ko Ioba waha, He hoonui olelo kana me ko ike ole.

< Job 35 >