Jovu 14
1 Hagi a'nemo'zama vahe'ma kasezmantege'za osi'a kna nemani'za rama'a knazampina unefraze.
“We humans are very frail. We live only a short time, and we experience a lot 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.
We disappear quickly, like flowers that grow from the ground quickly and then wither and die [SIM]. We are like shadows that disappear [when the sun stops shining].
3 Hagi Kagra e'inahu vahete kavua antenka ketenka mani'nano? Kagra e'inahu vahe zamavarenka keaga huzmantenka refkoa hunezmantano?
[Yahweh, ] why do you keep watching me [to see if I am doing something that is wrong] [RHQ]? Are you wanting to take me to court to judge me?
4 Hagi agruma osu vahera, iza azeri agru hugara hu'ne? I'o mago'mo'a anara osutfa hugahie.
People are sinners from the time when they are born; who can cause them to be sinless? No one [RHQ]!
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 decided how long our lives will be. You have decided how many months we will live, and we cannot live more months than the (limit/number of months) that you have decided.
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 please stop examining us, and allow us to be alone, until/while we finish our time [here on earth], like a man finishes his work [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.
If someone cuts a tree down, we hope that it will sprout again and grow new branches.
8 Hagi ana zafamofo arafu'namo'a ome ra huno osaparesingeno, agafa'amo'a hagege huno mopafina kasrigahie.
Its roots in the ground may be very old, and its stump may decay,
9 Hianagi mopafina tima me'nenigeno'a ana zafamo'a ete agata hageno, kasefa zafagna huno hageno marerigahie.
but if some water falls on it, it may bud/sprout and send up shoots like a young plant.
10 Hianagi vahe'ma frigeno'a hankaveamo'a vaganeregeno, atumparega ra asimu'ma anteteno nefrie.
But when we people lose all our strength and die, we stop breathing and then we are gone [forever].
11 Hagi hagerimpima zagema rentegeno'ma amuho huno amu'ma mareriankna nehuno, ra zagema regeno'ma tiramo'ma taneankna huno,
Just like water evaporates from the ocean, or like a riverbed dries up,
12 vahe'mo'a frino manigasa hu'nenigeno monamo'a vagaregahie.
people [lie down and die and] do not get up again. Until the heavens disappear, people who die [EUP] do not wake up, and no one can wake them up.
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)
[“Yahweh, ] I wish that you would put me safely in the place of the dead and forget about me until you are no longer angry with me. I wish that you would decide how much time I would spend there, and then remember [that] I [am there]. (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.
When we humans die, we will certainly not live again [RHQ]. If [I knew that] we would live again, I would wait patiently, and I would wait for you to release me [from my sufferings].
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 me, and I would answer. You would be eager to see me, one of the creatures that you had made.
16 Na'ankure menina nagama rerakaure'nama kama vanoma nehuazana negananki, kumi'ma huazamofona ohamprio.
You would take care of [MET] me, instead of watching me to see if I would sin.
17 Hagi e'ina nehunka kefo navu'nava zana kupi eririnka anaki nentenka kumi'ni'a refitesane.
[It is as though the record of] my sins would be sealed in a small bag, and you would cover them up.
18 Hianagi agonamo ankariseno eramianka nehigeno, mehimpinti havemo atamana huramiankna nehigeno,
“But, just like mountains crumble and rocks fall down from a cliff,
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.
and just like water slowly wears away the stones, and just like floods wash away soil, [you eventually destroy us]; you do not allow us to continue to (hope/confidently expect) [that we will keep on living].
20 Kagra hankavetinka maka knafina zamazeri zamagatere vava nehanke'za fanane nehazagenka, zamavufaga eri ruzahu hutenka huzmantanke'za friza nevaze.
You always defeat us, and then we die [EUP]. You cause our faces to look ugly after we die, and you send us 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.
[When we die] we do not know if our sons will grow up and [do things that will cause them to] be honored. And if they become disgraced, we do not see that, [either].
22 Zamagrira zamavufagafintira zamata negrige'za zamatagura nehu'za zamagra zamavufagura zavira netaze.
We will feel our own pains; we will not feel anything else; we will be sorry for ourselves, not for anyone else.”
