Job 19
1 And Job answers and says:
Ndipo Ayubu akajibu na kusema,
2 “Until when do you afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
lini mtanifanya mimi kuteseka na kunivunja vunja mimi vipande vipnde kwa maneno?
3 These ten times you put me to shame, you do not blush. You make yourselves strange to me—
Mara kumi hivi mmenishutumu mimi; ninyi hamuoni aibu kwamba mmenitendea mimi kwa ukatili.
4 And also—truly, I have erred, My error remains with me.
Kama ni dhahiri kweli mimi nimekosa, makosa yangu hubaki kuwa wajibu wangu.
5 If, truly, you magnify yourselves over me, And decide my reproach against me;
Kama ni dhahiri ninyi mtajiinua juu yangu mimi na kuutumia uvumilivu wangu kunipinga mimi,
6 Know now, that God turned me upside down, And has set around His net against me,
kisha ninyi mnapaswa kutambua kwamba Mungu amefanya mabaya kwangu mimi na amenikamata mimi katika mtego wake yeye.
7 Behold, I cry out—violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
Tazama, Mimi ninalia kwa sauti, “dhuluma!” lakini sipati jibu. Mimi ninaita kwa ajili ya msaada, lakini hakuna haki.
8 He hedged up my way, and I do not pass over, And He places darkness on my paths.
Yeye ameiwekea ukuta njia yangu, ili kwamba mimi nisiweze kupita, na yeye ameweka giza katika njia yangu.
9 He has stripped my honor from off me, And He turns the crown from my head.
Yeye ameniondoa Mimi kutoka katika utukufu wangu, na ameichukua taji kutoka kwenye kichwa changu mimi.
10 He breaks me down all around, and I go, And removes my hope like a tree.
Yeye amenivunjavunja mimi chini kwa kila upande, na Mimi nimetoweka; yeye amelikokota juu tumaini langu kama mti.
11 And He kindles His anger against me, And reckons me to Him as His adversaries.
Yeye pia ameiongeza ghadhabu yake dhidi yangu mimi; yeye ananihesabu mimi kama mmoja wa adui zake.
12 His troops come in together, And they raise up their way against me, And encamp around my tent.
Majeshi yake huja juu pamoja; wao wananikosesha tumaini kwa kuniteka nyara kwa kundi kubwa kupigana na mimi wakizunguka hema yangu.
13 He has put my brothers far off from me, And my acquaintances have surely been estranged from me.
Yeye amewaweka ndugu zangu mbali kutoka kwangu mimi; watu wangu wa karibu wote wamejitenga kutoka kwangu mimi.
14 My neighbors have ceased And my familiar friends have forgotten me,
Vizazi vyangu vimeniangusha mimi; rafiki zangu wa karibu wamenisahamu mimi.
15 Sojourners of my house and my maids, Reckon me for a stranger; I have been an alien in their eyes.
Wale ambao mwanzoni walikaa kama wageni ndani ya nyumba yangu na watumishi wangu wa kike, hunihesabu mimi kama mgeni. Mimi nimekuwa mgeni katika macho yao.
16 I have called to my servant, And he does not answer, With my mouth I make supplication to him.
Mimi ninamwita mtumishi wangu, lakini yeye hanipi jibu japokuwa Mimi nimemsihi yeye kwa midomo yangu.
17 My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favors to the sons of my [mother’s] womb.
Pumzi yangu mimi ni chukizo kwa mke wangu; Hata mimi ninachukiwa na wale ambao walizaliwa kutoka katika tumbo la mama yangu mimi.
18 Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
Hata watoto wachanga wananichukia mimi; ikiwa Mimi nitainuka kuzungumza, wao huzungumza dhidi yangu mimi.
19 All the men of my counsel detest me, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.
Rafiki zangu wote ninaowazoea wananichukia sana mimi; wale ambao Mimi ninawapenda wamegeuka kinyume na mimi.
20 To my skin and to my flesh My bone has cleaved, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
Mifupa yangu inashikamana kwenye ngozi yangu na kwenye mwili wangu; Mimi ninaishi tu kwa ngozi ya meno yangu.
21 Pity me, pity me, you my friends, For the hand of God has struck against me.
Iweni na huruma juu yangu mimi, muwe na huruma juu yangu mimi, rafiki zangu, kwa maana mkono wa Mungu umenigusa mimi.
22 Why do you pursue me as God? And are not satisfied with my flesh?
Kwa nini mnanitesa mimi kama ninyi mlikuwa Mungu? kwa nini hamjatosheka bado kwa kula mwili wangu?
23 Who grants now, that my words may be written? Who grants that they may be inscribed in a scroll?
Laiti, hayo maneno yangu yangekuwa yameandikwa chini! Laiti, hayo yangekuwa yameandikwa katika kitabu!
24 With a pen of iron and lead—They may be hewn in a rock forever.
Laiti, kwa kalamu ya chuma na risasi hayo yangekuwa yamechorwa katika mwamba siku zote!
25 That—I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For He raises the dust.
Lakini kama ilivyo kwangu mimi, Mimi ninafahamu kwamba mkombozi wangu anaishi, na kwamba hata mwisho atasimama katika nchi;
26 And after my skin has surrounded this [body], Then from my flesh I see God—
baada ya ngozi yangu, hivyo ndivyo, mwili huu, unaharibiwa, ndipo katika mwili wangu mimi Nitamwona Mungu.
27 Whom I see on my side, And my eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, My reins have been consumed in my bosom.
Mimi nitamwona yeye kwa macho yangu mwenyewe-Mimi, na siyo mtu mwingine. Moyo wangu hushindwa ndani yangu mimi.
28 But you say, Why do we pursue after him? And the root of the matter has been found in me.
Kama mnatasema, 'Kwa jinsi gani tutamtesa yeye? Mzizi wa mahangaiko yake unakaa katika yeye;
29 Be afraid because of the sword, For the punishments of the sword [are] furious, That you may know that [there is] a judgment.”
ndipo uwe umeogopeshwa kwa ule upanga, kwa sababu ghadhabu huleta hukumu ya upanga, hivyo kwamba wewe uweze kutambua kuna hukumu.”
