Job 15
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
Na Temanni Elifas buaa sɛ,
2 "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
“Enti onyansafoɔ de nsɛm a aba biara nni muo bɛyi nʼano anaasɛ ɔde apueeɛ mframa a emu yɛ hye bɛhyɛ nʼafuru ma?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
Ɔde nsɛm huhuo bɛdi anobaabaeɛ, aka nsɛm a ɛntu bunu biara anaa?
4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
Wototo onyamesuro ase mmom na wosi Onyankopɔn mu ahotosoɔ ho ɛkwan.
5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Wo bɔne kyerɛ wʼano deɛ ɔnka; na woafa aniteɛ tɛkrɛma.
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
Wo ankasa wʼano bu wo kumfɔ, ɛnyɛ me deɛ; wʼankasa wʼano di adanseɛ tia wo.
7 "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
“Wone onipa a wɔwoo wo dii ɛkan? Wɔwoo wo ansa na wɔrewo nkokoɔ?
8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Wotie Onyankopɔn afotuo anaa? Wo nko ara na wonim nyansa anaa?
9 What do you know, that we do not know? What do you understand, which is not in us?
Ɛdeɛn na wonim a, yɛnnim? Nhunumu bɛn na wowɔ a yɛnnie?
10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.
Deɛ wafu dwono ne akɔkoraa wɔ yɛn afa, wɔn a wɔanyini sene wʼagya mpo.
11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
Onyankopɔn awerɛkyekyerɛ ne nsɛm a wɔka no brɛoo kyerɛ wo no sua ma wo anaa?
12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
Adɛn enti na wʼakoma atwe wo korɔ adɛn enti na wʼani asɔ ogya,
13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
na woadane wʼabofuo agu Onyankopɔn so na woma saa nsɛm yi pue firi wʼano?
14 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
“Ɔdasani ne hwan a ɔbɛtumi ayɛ pɛ, anaasɛ deɛ ɔbaa awo noɔ bɛn na ɔbɛtumi ayɛ ɔteneneeni?
15 Look, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
Onyankopɔn nni ahotosoɔ wɔ nʼakronkronfoɔ mu. Ɔsorosoro mpo nnyɛ kronn wɔ nʼani so,
16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water.
na nkantom onipa bɔnefoɔ ne omumuyɛfoɔ a ɔnom awurukasɛm sɛ nsuo.
17 "I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare:
“Tie me, na mɛkyerɛ wo mu; ma menka deɛ mahunu nkyerɛ wo,
18 (Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
deɛ anyansafoɔ apae mu aka, a wɔamfa biribiara a wɔnya firii wɔn agyanom hɔ no ansie
19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):
(wɔn a wɔde asase no maa wɔn ɛberɛ a ananafoɔ biara nni hɔ):
20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
Omumuyɛfoɔ kɔ ahohiahia mu ne nkwanna nyinaa. Na basabasayɛni nso, wɔahyehyɛ ne mfeɛ nyinaa ama no.
21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
Nnyegyeɛ a ɛyɛ hu hyɛ nʼasom ma; na sɛ ɛyɛ sɛ nneɛma rekɔ yie ma no a, akorɔmfoɔ to hyɛ ne so.
22 He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
Ɔpa aba sɛ ɔbɛdwane afiri esum mu; wɔabɔ no ato hɔ ama akofena.
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Ɔkyinkyini hwehwɛ aduane; ɔnim sɛ esum da no abɛn.
24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Ɔhaw ne ahoyera yi no hu; ɛhyɛ ne so sɛ ɔhene a wasiesie ne ho ama ɔko,
25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against Shaddai;
ɛfiri sɛ ɔtenetene ne nsa kyerɛ Onyankopɔn na ɔma ne ho so tia Otumfoɔ.
26 he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers;
Wɔde akokyɛm a emu pi na ɛyɛ den kɔ ne so a wɔnsuro no.
27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
“Ɛwom sɛ sradeɛ ama wɔn afono atotɔ na wɔn asene mu ɛnam agu mmɛbɛ deɛ,
28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
nanso wɔbɛtena nkuro a aguo so na wɔatena afie a obi nte mu, afie a ɛrebubu mu.
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
Wɔrenkɔ so nyɛ adefoɔ bio, na wɔn ahonya rennyina, na wɔn agyapadeɛ so bɛte na ayera wɔ asase so.
30 He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.
Esum bɛduru wɔn; ogyaframa bɛkusa wɔn mman, na Onyankopɔn anom ahomeguo bɛsoa wɔn akɔ.
31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.
Ɛnsɛ sɛ wɔde wɔn ho to nneɛma huhuo so de daadaa wɔn ho, ɛfiri sɛ wɔrennya hwee mfiri mu.
32 It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.
Ansa na wɔn da bɛduru no, wɔbɛtua wɔn ka a ebi renka, na wɔn mman renyɛ frɔmfrɔm.
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.
Wɔbɛyɛ sɛ bobedua a wɔapore so aba a ɛnnyiniiɛ, te sɛ ngo dua a ne nhyerɛnne repore gu fam.
34 For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
Na abɔnefoɔ fekuo a wɔnnim Onyankopɔn no renso aba, na ogya bɛhye wɔn a wɔdɔ kɛtɛasehyɛ no ntomadan.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."
Wɔnyinsɛn ɔhaw na wɔwo amumuyɛ; wɔn awotwaa siesie nnaadaa.”
