Job 8
1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
Na Suhini Bildad buae se:
2 “How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
“Wobɛkɔ so aka saa nsɛm yi akosi da bɛn? Wo nsɛm yɛ mframa huhuw.
3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Onyankopɔn kyea atɛntrenee ana? Otumfo kyea nea ɛteɛ ana?
4 If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
Bere a wo mma yɛɛ bɔne tiaa no no, ogyaw wɔn maa wɔn bɔne so akatua.
5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
Nanso sɛ wode wʼani bɛto Onyankopɔn so na woabɔ Otumfo no mpae,
6 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
sɛ woyɛ kronkron, na woteɛ a, wo nti, ɔbɛma ne ho so mprempren na wama wo asi wo dedaw mu.
7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
Wo mfiase bɛyɛ nkakrankakra na daakye woanya ama abu so.
8 “Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
“Bisa awo ntoatoaso a atwa mu no, na hwehwɛ nea wɔn agyanom hui,
9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
na wɔwoo yɛn nkyɛe na yennim hwee, yɛn nna wɔ asase yi so te sɛ sunsuma.
10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
Wɔrenkyerɛkyerɛ wo na wɔrenka nkyerɛ wo ana? Wɔremfi wɔn ntease mu nka nsɛm bi ana?
11 “Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
So paparɔso betumi anyin akɔ soro wɔ baabi a ɛnyɛ ɔwora? Demmire betumi afifi baabi a nsu nni ana?
12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
Bere a ɛrenyin a wontwae no, ɛhyew ntɛm so sen sare.
13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
Saa na wɔn a wɔn werɛ fi Onyankopɔn no awiei te; saa ara na wɔn a wonni nyamesu no anidaso nkosi hwee.
14 whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
Biribiara a nʼani da so no nni ahoɔden; nea ɔde ne ho to so no yɛ ananse ntontan.
15 He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
Otweri ne ntontan, nanso ɛtetew; oso mu dennen, nanso ɛnyɛ yie.
16 He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
Ɔte sɛ afifide a wogugu so nsu yiye a esi owia mu, ɛtrɛtrɛw ne mman mu wɔ turo no so;
17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
Ne ntin nyin fa abotan ho, na ɛhwehwɛ ɔkwan kɔ abo mu.
18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
Nanso sɛ wotu fi ne sibea a, saa beae no nnim no bio na ɛka se, ‘Minhuu wo da.’
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way. Out of the earth, others will spring.
Ampa ara ne nkwa twa mu, na afifide foforo nyin asase no so.
20 “Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
“Ampa ara Onyankopɔn mpo onipa a ne ho nni asɛm na ɔnhyɛ amumɔyɛfo nsa mu den.
21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
Ɔbɛma woaserew bio, na wode ahosɛpɛw ateɛteɛ mu.
22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”
Wɔde aniwu befura wɔn a wɔtan wo, na amumɔyɛfo ntamadan bɛsɛe.”
