Job 35
1 Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
Afei, Elihu kaa sɛ:
2 Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?
“Wogye di sɛ yei fata? Woka sɛ, ‘Onyankopɔn bɛtwitwa agye me.’
3 For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Nanso wobisa no sɛ, ‘Mfasoɔ bɛn na mɛnya, na sɛ manyɛ bɔne a, mfasoɔ bɛn na mɛnya?’
4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.
“Mepɛ sɛ mebua wo ne wo nnamfonom nyinaa.
5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
Ma wʼani so kyerɛ ɔsoro na hwɛ; hwɛ omununkum a ɛwɔ wʼatifi ɔsorosoro nohoa.
6 If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you unto him?
Sɛ woyɛ bɔne a, ɛkwan bɛn so na ɛsakyera Onyankopɔn? Mpo sɛ wo bɔne dɔɔso a, nsunsuansoɔ bɛn na ɛnya wo ne so?
7 If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
Sɛ wotene a, ɛdeɛn na wode ma noɔ anaasɛ ɛdeɛn na ɔnya firi wo nsam?
8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
Wʼamumuyɛ pira onipa a ɔte sɛ wo na wo tenenee pira nnipa mma nko ara.
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.
“Nnipa su ɛberɛ a wɔwɔ nhyɛsoɔ ase; na wɔsrɛ mmoa firi deɛ ɔwɔ tumi nsam.
10 But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
Nanso, obi mmisa sɛ, ‘Ɛhe na Onyankopɔn, me Yɛfoɔ no wɔ, deɛ ɔma nnwom anadwo no,
11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
deɛ ɔkyerɛ yɛn nimdeɛ bebree sene asase so mmoa na ɔma yɛhunu nyansa sene ewiem nnomaa?’
12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Sɛ nnipa su team a, ɔmmua, amumuyɛfoɔ ahantan enti.
13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Ampa ara Onyankopɔn rentie wɔn nkotosrɛ hunu no; na Otumfoɔ remmu.
14 Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.
Woka sɛ wonhunu no, nanso sɛ wotwɛn no a, ɔde atɛntenenee bɛba enti ɛsɛ sɛ wotwɛn no.
15 But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
Bio, woka sɛ nʼabufuo mmfa asotweɛ mma na nʼani nni amumuyɛsɛm akyi pii.
16 Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
Enti Hiob bue nʼano ka nsɛm hunu; nimdeɛ a ɔnni enti, ɔkeka nsɛm bebree.”
