Job 9
1 Job zara sị:
Then Job answered and said,
2 “Nʼezie, amaara m na ihe ndị a bụ eziokwu. Ma mmadụ dị ndụ ọ ga-esi aṅaa gosi na ya bụ onye aka ya dị ọcha nʼihu Chineke?
I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?
3 Ọ bụrụ na Chineke ekpebie ịjụ mmadụ ajụjụ, ebee ka mmadụ ahụ nọ nke nwere ike ịza ọ bụladị otu nʼime ajụjụ dị iche iche Chineke ga-ajụ ya?
For if he would enter into judgment with him, [God] would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.
4 Amamihe ya dị ukwuu, ike ya sara mbara, onye guzogidere ya ma hapụ imerụ ahụ?
For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?
5 Ọ na-enugharị ugwu ukwu ma ha adịghị ama nke a, na-akwatụ ha nʼiwe ya.
Who wears out the mountains, and [men] know it not: who overturns them in anger.
6 Ọ na-enugharịkwa ụwa site na ntọala ya, mee ka ogidi ya maa jijiji.
Who shakes the [earth] under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.
7 Ọ na-agwa anyanwụ okwu mee ka ọ kwụsị ịcha; ọ na-emenyụ ìhè kpakpando na-enye.
Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars.
8 Naanị ya gbasara mbara eluigwe, ọ na-agakwa ije nʼelu ebili mmiri nke oke osimiri.
Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground.
9 Ọ bụ ya mere kpakpando Bịaa, na Orion na Pleiades, na kpakpando niile nke ndịda eluigwe.
Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.
10 Ọ na-arụ ọtụtụ ọrụ ebube nke mmadụ na-enweghị ike ịghọta, ihe ịrịbama nke ọnụ na-enweghị ike ịgụta.
Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.
11 Mgbe ọ na-esi nʼakụkụ m agafe, enweghị m ike ịhụ ya, mgbe ọ na-agabiga, adịghị m amata na ọ bụ ya.
If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: if he should pass by me, neither thus have I known [it].
12 Ọ bụrụ na ọ pụnara ihe, onye na-akwụsị ya? Onye kwa pụrụ ịjụ ya si, ‘Gịnị ka ị na-eme?’
If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?
13 Chineke adịghị eme ka iwe ya laghachi, ọbụladị ndị inyeaka Rehab, ruru ala nʼụkwụ ya.
For [if] he has turned away [his] anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.
14 “Onye kwanụ ka m bụ, m ga-eji nwee ike iguzo nʼihu ya ịjụ ya ajụjụ, maọbụ mụ na ya ịrụrịta ụka?
Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.
15 Nʼagbanyeghị na aka m dị ọcha, apụghị m ịsa ya okwu; kama m ga-arịọ onye ikpe m ka o mere m ebere.
For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me: I will intreat his judgment.
16 A sịkwarị na m kpọọ ya oku, ọ za m, ekwenyeghị m na ọ ga-ege m ntị.
And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.
17 Ọ ga-eji oke ifufe tirie m, meekwa ka ihe mgbu m baa ụba na-enweghị ihe butere ya.
Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause.
18 Ọ gaghị ekwe ka iku ume m lọghachi kama ọ ga-eji iru ụjụ kpuchie m.
For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.
19 Ọ bụrụ ihe e ji ike eme, lee na ọ dị ike nke ukwuu! Ọzọ ọ bụrụ nʼikpe ziri ezi, onye pụrụ iguzogide ya.
For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment?
20 A sịkwarị na aka m dị ọcha, ọnụ m ga-ama m ikpe; ọ bụrụ na abụ m onye na-enweghị ịta ụta, ọ ga-agụ m nʼonye ikpe mara.
For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.
21 “Ọ bụ ezie na abụ m onye ikpe na-amaghị ejighị m onwe m kpọrọ ihe; nʼezie ana m eleda ndụ m anya.
For even if I have sinned, I know it not [in] my soul: but my life is taken away.
22 Otu ihe ahụ ka ọ bụ; nʼihi ya ka m ji asị, ‘Ọ na-ala ndị ezi omume na ndị ajọ omume nʼiyi.’
Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.
23 Mgbe ịpịa ụtarị wetara ọnwụ mberede, ọ na-achị enweghị olileanya nke ndị na-enweghị ihe ha mere ọchị.
For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.
24 Mgbe ala dabara nʼaka ndị na-emebi iwu, ọ na-ekpuchi ndị ọkaikpe anya. Ọ bụrụ na ọ bụghị ya na-eme ya, onye kwanụ bụ onye ahụ na-eme ya?
For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous [man]: he covers the faces of the judges [of the earth]: but if it be not he, who is it?
25 “Ụbọchị ndụ m dị gara gara karịa onye ọgba ọsọ; ha na-agafekwa na-ahụtụghị ọṅụ anya.
But my life is swifter than a post: [my days] have fled away, and they knew it not.
26 Ha na-agafe dịka ụgbọ mmiri papịrọs, dịka mgbe ugo na-efeda ngwangwa ijide anụ ọ ga-eri.
Or again, is there a trace of [their] path [left] by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks [its] prey?
27 Ọ bụrụ na m sị, ‘Aga m echefu mkpesa m, aga m agbanwe ihu m, nwee ihu ọchị.’
And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;
28 Nsogbu m niile ka na-atụ m egwu nʼihi na amara m na ị gaghị ewere m dịka onye aka ya dị ọcha.
I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone [as] innocent.
29 Ebe m bụrịị onye ikpe mara, nʼihi gịnị ka m ji na-adọgbu onwe m nʼefu?
But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?
30 A sịkwarị na m jiri ncha saa ahụ m werekwa soda saa aka m abụọ,
For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,
31 ị ga-enuba m nʼolulu apịtị nke pụrụ ime ka uwe m yi nʼahụ m kpọọ m asị.
thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.
32 “Ọ bụghị mmadụ efu dịka m nke m ga-aza ya, ka anyị abụọ kpọrịtaa onwe anyị ikpe nʼụlọikpe.
For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.
33 A sịkwarị na e nwere onye odozi okwu nʼetiti mụ na gị, onye ga-ebikwasị anyị abụọ aka ya,
Would that [he] our mediator were [present], and a reprover, and one who should hear [the cause] between both.
34 onye ga-ewepụ mkpara Chineke site nʼebe m nọ, ka oke egwu ya gharakwa ịtụ m ọzọ.
Let him remove [his] rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
35 Mgbe ahụ ka m ga-ekwu okwu na-atụghị ya egwu; ma ka ọ dị ugbu a ọ dịghị ihe m nwere ike ime.
so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious [of guilt].
