Job 35
1 Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
UElihu wasephendula wathi:
2 Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?
Ukhumbula ukuthi lokhu kuqondile yini? Uthe: Ukulunga kwami kwedlula okukaNkulunkulu.
3 For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Ngoba uthe kusizani kuwe, kungisizani okwedlula isono sami?
4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.
Mina ngizakuphendula, labangane bakho kanye lawe.
5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
Khangela amazulu ubone; ukhangele amayezi, aphakeme kulawe.
6 If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you unto him?
Uba usona, wenzani kuye? Uba iziphambeko zakho zizinengi, wenzani kuye?
7 If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
Uba ulungile, umnikani, kumbe wemukelani esandleni sakho?
8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
Ububi bakho buthinta umuntu onjengawe, lokulunga kwakho indodana yomuntu.
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.
Ngenxa yobunengi bencindezelo babenza bakhale; bayakhala ngenxa yengalo yabalamandla.
10 But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
Kodwa kakho othi: Ungaphi uNkulunkulu umenzi wami, onika amahubo ebusuku,
11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
osifundisa okwedlula inyamazana zomhlaba, asenze sihlakaniphe okwedlula inyoni zamazulu?
12 There they cry, but none gives answer, 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 you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.
Yebo, lanxa usithi: Kawumboni, kanti isahlulelo siphambi kwakhe; ngakho umlindele.
15 But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
Kodwa khathesi, ngoba intukuthelo yakhe ingajezisanga, laye kayikwejwayela kakhulu yini ukuziphakamisa?
16 Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
Ngakho uJobe uvule umlomo wakhe ngeze, wandisa amazwi engelalwazi.
