Hiob 13
1 “Nye ŋkuwo kpɔ nu siawo katã, nye towo se wo eye wose wo gɔme.
Lo, mine eye has seen all this, mine ear has heard and understood it.
2 Nu si nènya la, nye hã menyae, mède ŋgɔ wum o.
What all of you know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
3 Gake medi vevie be maƒo nu kple Ŋusẽkatãtɔ la eye mahe nya kple Mawu.
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4 Ke miawo la, miele ŋunye gblẽm kple aʋatsonyawo, mi katã mienye gbedala siwo ŋu viɖe aɖeke mele o!
But all of you are forgers of lies, all of you are all physicians of no value.
5 Ne mi katã miahaɖo to ɖe! Le mia gbɔ la, esia anye nunya.
O that all of you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6 Mise ɖokuinyenuɖeɖe azɔ, mise nye nuyiwo ƒe kokoƒoƒo.
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Ɖe miaƒo nu baɖa ɖe Mawu nua? Ɖe miaƒo nu bebletɔe ɖe enua?
Will all of you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8 Ɖe miebe yewoade edzia? Ɖe miebe yewoaxɔ nya ɖe Mawu nua?
Will all of you accept his person? will all of you contend for God?
9 Anyo na mi ne edo mi kpɔa? Miate ŋu ablee abe ale si miable amewo enea?
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do all of you so mock him?
10 Le nyateƒe me, aka mo na mi, ne miede edzi le adzame.
He will surely reprove you, if all of you do secretly accept persons.
11 Ɖe eƒe ŋutikɔkɔe mado ŋɔdzi na mi oa? Ɖe eƒe ŋɔdzi malé mi oa?
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12 Miaƒe nya tsitsiwo nye lododo gbɔlowo eye dedinɔnɔ ƒe gli siwo mieɖo la nye anyigliwo ko.
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 “Mizi ɖoɖoe ne miana mɔm maƒo nu, ekema nu si be yeadzɔ ɖe dzinye la nedzɔ.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14 Nu ka ŋuti metsɔ ɖokuinye de xaxa me eye metsɔ nye agbe ɖo nye asiƒome?
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15 Togbɔ be ele wu ye ge hã la, matsɔ nye mɔkpɔkpɔ ada ɖe eya amea dzi ko. Le nyateƒe me maʋu go nye mɔwo ɖe ŋkume nɛ.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
16 Vavã esia ava zu ɖeɖe nam elabena mawumavɔ̃la aɖeke mate kpɔ be yeado ɖe eŋkume o!
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17 Miɖo to miase nye nyawo nyuie, miƒu to anyi miase nu si gblɔ ge mele.
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18 Azɔ meɖo nye nyawo ɖe ɖoɖo nu vɔ, menya be tɔnye adzɔ godoo.
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19 Ɖe ame aɖe ate ŋu atsɔ nya ɖe ŋunyea? Ne ame aɖe ate ŋui la, ekema mazi ɖoɖoe aku.
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the spirit.
20 “O Mawu, nu eve siawo ko medi be nàwɔ nam, eye nyemaɣla ɖokuinye ɖe wò o.
Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from you.
21 Te wò asi ɖa xaa tso gbɔnye eye nàdzudzɔ vɔvɔ̃dodo nam kple wò ŋɔdzinuwo.
Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid.
22 Ekema yɔm eye matɔ alo maƒo nu eye nàɖo eŋu.
Then call you, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer you me.
23 Nu vɔ̃ kple nu gbegblẽ nenie mewɔ? Ɖe nye vodada kple nu vɔ̃ fiam.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 Nu ka tae nèɣla wò mo eye nèbum wò futɔe?
Wherefore hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
25 Ɖe nàwɔ funyafunya aŋgba si ya lɔ ɖe nua? Ɖe nàti atsa yomea?
Will you break a leaf driven back and forth? and will you pursue the dry stubble?
26 Elabena èŋlɔ nu vɔ̃ɖiwo ɖi ɖe ŋunye eye nèna nye ɖekakpuimenu vɔ̃wo va dzinye.
For you write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27 Ède gakɔsɔkɔsɔ nye afɔwo, wò ŋkuwo le nye toƒewo katã ŋu eye nède dzesi nye afɔƒome.
You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly unto all my paths; you set a print upon the heels of my feet.
28 “Ale mevɔ le eme abe nu si ƒaƒã alo avɔ si gbagblaʋui ɖu la ene.”
And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten.
