Jovu 14

1 Hagi a'nemo'zama vahe'ma kasezmantege'za osi'a kna nemani'za rama'a knazampina unefraze.

Life is short and full of trouble,

2 Trazamo amosre ahenteteno, ame huno friankna vahe'mota nehune. Huge zagemo hanatino remsa higeno amema'amo ame huno fore huteno, ame huno fanane hiankna nehune.

like a flower that blooms and withers, like a passing shadow that soon disappears.

3 Hagi Kagra e'inahu vahete kavua antenka ketenka mani'nano? Kagra e'inahu vahe zamavarenka keaga huzmantenka refkoa hunezmantano?

Do you even notice me, God, and why do you have to drag me to court?

4 Hagi agruma osu vahera, iza azeri agru hugara hu'ne? I'o mago'mo'a anara osutfa hugahie.

Who can bring something clean of what is unclean? No one.

5 Hagi manita vanuna kna Kagra antahinka kenka hu'nane. Tagra nama'a ika manita vugahune, Kagra antahinka kenka hu'nanankinka, ko e'inahu kna'afi manigahaze hunka hunte'nanankino, mago vahe'mo'a agra'ama manino'ma vania kna'a azeri za'zara huno omanigahie.

You have determined how long we shall live—the number of months, a time limit on our lives.

6 E'ina hu'negu amnerega kavua antenka negenka, natrege'na mani'ne'na zago eri'za eneri'za vahe'mo'zama nehazaza hu'na manisua kna'afina eri'zana e'neri'na musenkasea ha'neno.

So leave us alone and give us some peace—so like a laborer we could enjoy a few hours of rest at the end of the day.

7 Na'ankure zafama antagima atrazage'za, ete hagegahune hu'za amuhara nehazanki'za kasefa agata hage'za azankunatmina omere emere hugahaze.

Even a tree that's cut down has the hope of sprouting again, of sending up shoots and continuing to live.

8 Hagi ana zafamofo arafu'namo'a ome ra huno osaparesingeno, agafa'amo'a hagege huno mopafina kasrigahie.

Even though its roots grow old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground,

9 Hianagi mopafina tima me'nenigeno'a ana zafamo'a ete agata hageno, kasefa zafagna huno hageno marerigahie.

just a trickle of water will make it bud and grow branches like a young plant.

10 Hianagi vahe'ma frigeno'a hankaveamo'a vaganeregeno, atumparega ra asimu'ma anteteno nefrie.

But human beings die, their strength dwindles away; they perish, and where are they then?

11 Hagi hagerimpima zagema rentegeno'ma amuho huno amu'ma mareriankna nehuno, ra zagema regeno'ma tiramo'ma taneankna huno,

Like water evaporating from a lake and a river that dries up and disappears,

12 vahe'mo'a frino manigasa hu'nenigeno monamo'a vagaregahie.

so human beings lie down and don't get up again. Until the heavens cease to exist they will not awake from their sleep.

13 Hanki matipima fraki nantenka kagekani nantenankeno karimpa ahe'zamo'ma evunagateresiana knare hisine. Hianagi ete nagri'ma antahi namisana kna, mago kna huhamprinanto. (Sheol h7585)

I wish you would hide me in Sheol; conceal me there until your anger is gone. Set a definite time for me there, and remember me! (Sheol h7585)

14 Hagi fri'ne'nia vahe'mo'a ete otinora manigahifi? Hagi e'inahu zama me'nenige'na, maraguzamati'na vanua knafina frizampinti'ma nazeri oti'nia zankura amuhara hu'na vugahue.

Will the dead live again? Then I would have hope through all my time of trouble until my release comes.

15 Hagi Kagra nagriku'ma kema hananke'na kenona hunegantenugenka, Kagraka'a kazanuti'ma tro'ma hunte'nana vahe'mo'nagura tusiza hunka antahintahia hugahane.

You would call and I would answer you; you would long for me, the being that you made.

16 Na'ankure menina nagama rerakaure'nama kama vanoma nehuazana negananki, kumi'ma huazamofona ohamprio.

Then you would look after me and wouldn't be watching me to see if I sinned.

17 Hagi e'ina nehunka kefo navu'nava zana kupi eririnka anaki nentenka kumi'ni'a refitesane.

My sins would be sealed up in a bag and you would cover my guilt.

18 Hianagi agonamo ankariseno eramianka nehigeno, mehimpinti havemo atamana huramiankna nehigeno,

But just as the mountains crumble and fall, and the rocks tumble down;

19 tima hageno havea erino eviankna nehanigeno, tima hageno mopa erino viankna hunka vahe'mo'ma maniso'ema hunaku'ma amuha'ma nehiazana eri haviza nehane.

as water wears away the stones, as floods wash away the soil, so you destroy the hope people have.

20 Kagra hankavetinka maka knafina zamazeri zamagatere vava nehanke'za fanane nehazagenka, zamavufaga eri ruzahu hutenka huzmantanke'za friza nevaze.

You continually overpower them and they pass away; you distort their faces in death and send them away.

21 Hagi ana vahe'mokizmi mofavreramimo'za zamagi me'nea vahe mani'nazanagi, zamagra e'i ana zana antahi'za ke'za osu'naze. Hagi zamazeri fenkamima atresniana antahi'za ke'za osugahaze.

Their children may become important or fall from their positions, but they don't know or see any of this.

22 Zamagrira zamavufagafintira zamata negrige'za zamatagura nehu'za zamagra zamavufagura zavira netaze.

As people die they only know their own pain and are sad for themselves.”