Job 23
1 Mgbe ahụ, Job zara sị:
Then answered Job, and said,
2 “Ọ bụladị taa, mkpesa m dị ilu; aka ya dị arọ megide m nʼagbanyeghị ịsụ ude m.
Even now is my complaint bitter: my suffering is heavier than my groans.
3 A sịkwa na m maara ebe m ga-achọta ya; a sịkwa na m nwere ike ijeru ebe obibi ya!
Oh who would grant that I knew where I might find him! that I might attain to his Judgment throne!
4 Aga m edozi mkpesa m nʼusoro nʼihu ya were ịrụ ụka mejuo ọnụ m.
I would put in order before him my cause, and my mouth would I fill with arguments.
5 Aga m achọpụta ihe o ga-aza m ma tuleekwa ihe ọ ga-agwa m.
I should know the words which he might answer me, and understand what he might say unto me.
6 Ọ ga-eji ike dị egwu megide m? Mba, ọ gaghị ebo m ebubo.
Would he with his power contend against me? he would truly not lay such doings to my charge.
7 Nʼebe ahụ, onye ziri ezi ga-eme mkpesa nʼihu ya. Nʼebe ahụ, a ga-anapụtakwa m site nʼaka onye ikpe m rụọ mgbe ebighị ebi.
There would an upright one argue with him; and I should be allowed to escape for ever by my judge.
8 “Ma ọ bụrụ na m agaa nʼọwụwa anyanwụ ọ nọghị nʼebe ahụ; ọ bụrụ na m gaa nʼọdịda anyanwụ, agaghị m achọta ya.
But, lo, I go eastward—and he is not there; and to the west— and I cannot perceive him;
9 Mgbe ọ nọ nʼọrụ nʼugwu anaghị m ahụ ya, mgbe ọ lọghachiri na ndịda anaghị m ahụkwa ya.
When he doth great things at the north, I behold him not; he hideth himself in the south—and I see him not.
10 Ma ọ maara ụzọ m na-aga, mgbe ọ nwapụtasịrị m, aga m apụta dịka ọlaedo,
But he knoweth the way that I take: were he to probe me, I should come forth as gold.
11 ụkwụ m abụọ na-agbaso nzọ ụkwụ ya; ana m eso ụzọ ya na-atụgharịghị nʼaka nri maọbụ aka ekpe.
On his steps my foot hath held fast: his way have I kept, and swerved not.
12 Esibeghị m nʼiwu nke si nʼọnụ ya pụta wezuga onwe m; a na m echekwa okwu ọnụ ya karịa nri nke m na-eri kwa ụbọchị.
From the commandment of his lips have I also not moved away: as a fixed statute for me have I treasured up the sayings of his mouth.
13 “Ma o guzo naanị ya, onye pụrụ iguzogide ya? Ọ na-eme ihe ọbụla masịrị ya.
But he is unchangeably one, and who can turn him? And what his will desireth, even that he doth.
14 Ọ na-emezu ụkpụrụ ya niile o zubere megide m, ọ ka nwekwara nzube ndị ọzọ yiri nke a o dobere imegide m.
For he will bring to completion what hath been destined for me: and like these hath he many other things with him.
15 Nʼihi ya ka obi ji ama m jijiji nʼihu ya; mgbe m chetara banyere ihe ndị a niile, ana m atụ egwu ya.
Therefore am I terrified at his presence: I will reflect, and be in dread of him.
16 Chineke emeela ka obi m daa mba; Onye pụrụ ime ihe niile emeela ka m maa jijiji.
Still God hath made timid my heart, and the Almighty hath terrified me;
17 Ma ọchịchịrị emeghị ka m mechie ọnụ m, bụ oke ọchịchịrị nke kpuchiri ihu m.
Because I was not destroyed before this darkness, and because he hath not hidden from my face [this] gloom.
