Yobo 35
1 Bongo Eliwu alobaki:
Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
2 « Boni, okanisi ete yango ezali sembo? Olobi: ‹ Nazali sembo liboso ya Nzambe. ›
Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?
3 Nzokande, ozali koloba: ‹ Nakozwa nini, litomba nini nakozwa soki nasali masumu te? ›
For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4 Nalingi kopesa yo eyano, yo elongo na baninga na yo.
I will answer you, and your companions with you.
5 Tombola miso na likolo mpe tala; mona ndenge mapata ezali likolo na yo.
Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
6 Soki osali masumu, ekosala Nzambe nini? Soki masumu na yo ezali ebele, ekosala Ye nini?
If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?
7 Soki ozali sembo, okopesa Ye nini to akozwa nini na loboko na yo?
If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
8 Mabe na yo ekokomela kaka bazalani na yo, bosembo na yo ezali na litomba kaka epai ya bana na bato.
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
9 Bato bazali kolela na se ya mokumba ya minyoko, bazali koganga na se ya motema makasi ya bato minene.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10 Kasi moto moko te azali koloba: ‹ Nzambe Mokeli na ngai, Ye oyo apesaka banzembo ya esengo na butu,
But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
11 Ye oyo ateyaka biso koleka banyama ya mokili mpe akomisaka biso mayele koleka bandeke ya likolo, azali wapi? ›
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12 Ata bagangi, Nzambe akoyanola te, mpo na lolendo ya bato mabe.
There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Pamba te, Nzambe ayokaka te maloba na bango ya pamba, Nkolo-Na-Nguya-Nyonso azalaka ata na bokebi na yango te.
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 Nzokande, yo ozali komeka koloba ete ozali komona Ye te, ete ozwi nanu eyano te na kolela na yo epai na Ye.
Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.
15 Mpe sik’oyo, soki kanda ya Nzambe eyei nanu likolo na yo te mpe soki Ye azali nanu kobosana maloba na yo ya soni,
But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
16 elingi koloba ete yo, Yobo, ofungoli monoko na yo kaka na pamba mpe otondisi yango na maloba ya bozoba. »
Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
