Yobo 23
1 Yobo azongisaki:
and to answer Job and to say
2 « Lelo lisusu, kolela na ngai ezali bololo, loboko oyo ezali likolo na ngai eleki kolela ya motema na ngai na kilo.
also [the] day rebellion complaint my hand my to honor: heavy upon sighing my
3 Soki nayebaki esika nini nakoki komona Nzambe, nalingaki kokoma liboso ya kiti ya bokonzi na Ye,
who? to give: if only! to know and to find him to come (in): come till place his
4 nalingaki kotalisa, na bosembo nyonso, likambo na ngai liboso na Ye, mpe kotondisa monoko na ngai na matatoli ya solo,
to arrange to/for face: before his justice and lip my to fill argument
5 nalingaki koyeba biyano oyo alingaki kopesa ngai, mpe kososola makambo oyo alingaki koloba na ngai.
to know speech to answer me and to understand what? to say to/for me
6 Boni, alingaki kosalela nguya na Ye mpo na kosamba na ngai? Te, alingaki kutu koyokela ngai mawa!
in/on/with abundance strength to contend with me me not surely he/she/it to set: consider in/on/with me
7 Kuna, liboso na Ye, moto ya sembo akososolisa Ye likambo na ngai, mpe nakokangolama libela wuta na maboko ya mosambisi na ngai.
there upright to rebuke with him and to escape to/for perpetuity from to judge me
8 Soki nakeyi na ngambo ya este, azali kuna te; soki nakeyi na ngambo ya weste, nazali komona Ye te.
look! front: forward to go: went and nothing he and back and not to understand to/for him
9 Tango azali na mosala na ngambo ya nor, nazali komona Ye te, tango azali kobaluka na ngambo ya sude, nazali komona Ye ata moke te.
left in/on/with to make: do he and not to see to turn aside right and not to see: see
10 Nzokande, Ye ayebi nzela oyo ngai nazali kolanda; soki ameki ngai, nakokoma lokola wolo ya peto.
for to know way: conduct with me me to test me like/as gold to come out: come
11 Makolo na ngai elandaki matambe na Ye; natambolaki na nzela na Ye mpe natikalaki kopengwa na yango te.
in/on/with step his to grasp foot my way: conduct his to keep: obey and not to stretch
12 Napengwaki te mosika ya mateya ya bibebu na Ye; nabatelaki yango lokola bomengo ya kitoko, koleka lipa na ngai ya mokolo na mokolo.
commandment lips his and not to remove from statute: portion my to treasure word lip his
13 Kasi Ye, azwaka Ye moko mokano na Ye; nani akoki kotelemela Ye? Asalaka nyonso oyo esepelisaka Ye.
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 Akokokisa ekateli oyo azwaki na tina na ngai mpe ebele ya mabongisi mosusu oyo akobongisa.
for to complete statute: portion my and like/as them many with him
15 Yango wana, liboso na Ye, nazali koyoka somo makasi; mpe wana nazali kokanisa makambo oyo nyonso, nazali kobanga Ye.
upon so from face his to dismay to understand and to dread from him
16 Nzambe alembisi ngai, Nkolo-Na-Nguya-Nyonso abangisi ngai.
and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me
17 Atako bongo, molili to molili makasi oyo ezingeli ngai ekangi ngai monoko te.
for not to destroy from face: before darkness and from face my to cover darkness
