Job 23
1 Mgbe ahụ, Job zara sị:
and to answer Job and to say
2 “Ọ bụladị taa, mkpesa m dị ilu; aka ya dị arọ megide m nʼagbanyeghị ịsụ ude m.
also [the] day rebellion complaint my hand my to honor: heavy upon sighing my
3 A sịkwa na m maara ebe m ga-achọta ya; a sịkwa na m nwere ike ijeru ebe obibi ya!
who? to give: if only! to know and to find him to come (in): come till place his
4 Aga m edozi mkpesa m nʼusoro nʼihu ya were ịrụ ụka mejuo ọnụ m.
to arrange to/for face: before his justice and lip my to fill argument
5 Aga m achọpụta ihe o ga-aza m ma tuleekwa ihe ọ ga-agwa m.
to know speech to answer me and to understand what? to say to/for me
6 Ọ ga-eji ike dị egwu megide m? Mba, ọ gaghị ebo m ebubo.
in/on/with abundance strength to contend with me me not surely he/she/it to set: consider in/on/with 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 upright to rebuke with him and to escape to/for perpetuity from to judge me
8 “Ma ọ bụrụ na m agaa nʼọwụwa anyanwụ ọ nọghị nʼebe ahụ; ọ bụrụ na m gaa nʼọdịda anyanwụ, agaghị m achọta ya.
look! front: forward to go: went and nothing he and back and not to understand to/for him
9 Mgbe ọ nọ nʼọrụ nʼugwu anaghị m ahụ ya, mgbe ọ lọghachiri na ndịda anaghị m ahụkwa ya.
left in/on/with to make: do he and not to see to turn aside right and not to see: see
10 Ma ọ maara ụzọ m na-aga, mgbe ọ nwapụtasịrị m, aga m apụta dịka ọlaedo,
for to know way: conduct with me me to test me like/as gold to come out: come
11 ụkwụ m abụọ na-agbaso nzọ ụkwụ ya; ana m eso ụzọ ya na-atụgharịghị nʼaka nri maọbụ aka ekpe.
in/on/with step his to grasp foot my way: conduct his to keep: obey and not to stretch
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.
commandment lips his and not to remove from statute: portion my to treasure word lip his
13 “Ma o guzo naanị ya, onye pụrụ iguzogide ya? Ọ na-eme ihe ọbụla masịrị ya.
and he/she/it in/on/with one and who? to return: turn back him and soul: myself his to desire and to make: do
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 to complete statute: portion my and like/as them many 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.
upon so from face his to dismay to understand and to dread from him
16 Chineke emeela ka obi m daa mba; Onye pụrụ ime ihe niile emeela ka m maa jijiji.
and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me
17 Ma ọchịchịrị emeghị ka m mechie ọnụ m, bụ oke ọchịchịrị nke kpuchiri ihu m.
for not to destroy from face: before darkness and from face my to cover darkness
