Job 18
1 Mgbe ahụ Bildad onye Shua zara sị:
Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
2 “Ruo ole mgbe ka ị ga-ekwubi okwu ndị a ị na-ekwu? Nwee ezi uche ka anyị kparịtaa ụka.
How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.
3 Gịnị mere i ji were anyị dịka anụ ọhịa, gụọ anyị dịka ndị na-enweghị uche nʼanya gị?
For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?
4 Gị onye na-eji iwe adọkasị onwe gị, a ga-ahapụ ụwa nʼihi gị? Ka a ga-enupu oke nkume nʼọnọdụ ha?
Anger has possessed you: for what if you should die; would [the earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?
5 “A na-afụnyụ oriọna nke onye na-emebi iwu; ire ọkụ ya ga-akwụsịkwa inwu enwu,
But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.
6 ìhè nke dị nʼime ụlọ ikwu ya na-abụ ọchịchịrị, oriọna nke dị nʼakụkụ ya na-anyụkwa.
His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
7 Ike agakwaghị adị na nzọ ukwu ya; atụmatụ ya onwe ya ga-atụda ya nʼala.
Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].
8 Ụkwụ ya na-eduba ya nʼọnya; ọ na-akpagharị na-adaba nʼime oghere.
His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.
9 Ọnya na-ejide ikiri ụkwụ ya, ọnya ahụ na-ejidesi ya ike.
And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
10 E zobere ya ụdọ ọnya igbudu nʼala, ihe e ji ejide ya na-echere ya nʼụzọ ya.
His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.
11 Ihe egwu na-emenye ya ụjọ nʼakụkụ niile, na-agbasokwa nzọ ụkwụ ya niile.
Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,
12 Ịla nʼiyi na-achọsi ya ike; mbibi nọkwa na njikere na-eche mgbe ọ ga-ada.
[vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
13 Mbibi na-eripịa akụkụ anụ ahụ ya; ọkpara ọnwụ na-eripịa ahụ ya niile.
Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.
14 Esi na nchekwa nke ụlọ ikwu ya dọpụta ya duru ya jekwuru eze nke ihe egwu niile.
And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.
15 Ọkụ na-ebi nʼime ụlọ ikwu ya; a ga-efesasị nkume na-enwu ọkụ nʼebe obibi ya.
It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.
16 Mgbọrọgwụ ya na-akpọ nkụ nʼime ala, alaka ya ga-akpọnwụ nʼelu.
His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.
17 A gaghị echeta echiche ya nʼụwa ọzọ, o nweghị onye ọbụla na-echetakwa aha ya.
Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.
18 A na-esite nʼìhè chụba ya nʼọchịchịrị, otu a kwa, a na-achụpụkwa ya site nʼụwa.
Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.
19 O nweghị ụmụ, o nwekwaghị ụmụ ụmụ nʼetiti ndị ya, ọ dịghị onye fọdụrụ nʼebe o bi na mbụ.
He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.
20 Ọnọdụ ya na-eju ndị si nʼọdịda anyanwụ anya; oke egwu na-ejidekwa ndị si nʼọwụwa anyanwụ nʼihi ya.
But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.
21 Nʼezie, otu a ka ebe obibi nke onye ajọ omume dị, ee, bụ onye ahụ nke na-amaghị Chineke.”
These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.
