Job 23
1 Mgbe ahụ, Job zara sị:
And he answered Job and he said.
2 “Ọ bụladị taa, mkpesa m dị ilu; aka ya dị arọ megide m nʼagbanyeghị ịsụ ude m.
Also this day [the] rebellion of complaint my hand my it is heavy on groaning my.
3 A sịkwa na m maara ebe m ga-achọta ya; a sịkwa na m nwere ike ijeru ebe obibi ya!
Who? will he give I knew and I will find him I will come to place his.
4 Aga m edozi mkpesa m nʼusoro nʼihu ya were ịrụ ụka mejuo ọnụ m.
Let me set in order before him a case and mouth my let me fill arguments.
5 Aga m achọpụta ihe o ga-aza m ma tuleekwa ihe ọ ga-agwa m.
I want to know [the] words [which] he will answer me and I want to understand what? will he say to me.
6 Ọ ga-eji ike dị egwu megide m? Mba, ọ gaghị ebo m ebubo.
¿ With greatness of power will he conduct a case with me not surely he he will put on me.
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 an upright [person] [will be] reasoning with him and I will deliver to perpetuity from judge my.
8 “Ma ọ bụrụ na m agaa nʼọwụwa anyanwụ ọ nọghị nʼebe ahụ; ọ bụrụ na m gaa nʼọdịda anyanwụ, agaghị m achọta ya.
Here! forward I go and there not [is] he and backwards and not I perceive him.
9 Mgbe ọ nọ nʼọrụ nʼugwu anaghị m ahụ ya, mgbe ọ lọghachiri na ndịda anaghị m ahụkwa ya.
[the] left [side] When acts he and not I see [him] he turns [the] right [side] and not I see [him].
10 Ma ọ maara ụzọ m na-aga, mgbe ọ nwapụtasịrị m, aga m apụta dịka ọlaedo,
That he knows [the] way with me he has tested me like gold I will come forth.
11 ụkwụ m abụọ na-agbaso nzọ ụkwụ ya; ana m eso ụzọ ya na-atụgharịghị nʼaka nri maọbụ aka ekpe.
On step his it has taken hold foot my way his I have kept and not I have turned aside.
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.
[the] commandment of Lips his and not I have ceased more than portion my I have treasured up [the] words of mouth his.
13 “Ma o guzo naanị ya, onye pụrụ iguzogide ya? Ọ na-eme ihe ọbụla masịrị ya.
And he [is] one and who? will he turn back him and [that which] self his it has desired and he has done.
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 performs decree my and like them many [are] 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.
There-fore of him I am terrified I consider and I may be in dread from him.
16 Chineke emeela ka obi m daa mba; Onye pụrụ ime ihe niile emeela ka m maa jijiji.
And God he has made faint heart my and [the] Almighty he has terrified me.
17 Ma ọchịchịrị emeghị ka m mechie ọnụ m, bụ oke ọchịchịrị nke kpuchiri ihu m.
For not I have been destroyed from before darkness and from before me it covers gloom.
