Yobo 35

1 Bongo Eliwu alobaki:

And Elihu answers and says:

2 « Boni, okanisi ete yango ezali sembo? Olobi: ‹ Nazali sembo liboso ya Nzambe. ›

“Have you reckoned this for judgment [when] you have said, My righteousness [is] more than God’s?

3 Nzokande, ozali koloba: ‹ Nakozwa nini, litomba nini nakozwa soki nasali masumu te? ›

For you say, What does it profit You? What do I profit from my sin?

4 Nalingi kopesa yo eyano, yo elongo na baninga na yo.

I return words, and your friends with you,

5 Tombola miso na likolo mpe tala; mona ndenge mapata ezali likolo na yo.

Behold attentively the heavens—and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than you.

6 Soki osali masumu, ekosala Nzambe nini? Soki masumu na yo ezali ebele, ekosala Ye nini?

If you have sinned, what do you do against Him? And your transgressions have been multiplied, What do you do to Him?

7 Soki ozali sembo, okopesa Ye nini to akozwa nini na loboko na yo?

If you have been righteous, What do you give to Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?

8 Mabe na yo ekokomela kaka bazalani na yo, bosembo na yo ezali na litomba kaka epai ya bana na bato.

For a man like yourself [is] your wickedness, And for a son of man your righteousness.

9 Bato bazali kolela na se ya mokumba ya minyoko, bazali koganga na se ya motema makasi ya bato minene.

Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because 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,

And none said, Where [is] God my Maker? Giving songs in the night,

11 Ye oyo ateyaka biso koleka banyama ya mokili mpe akomisaka biso mayele koleka bandeke ya likolo, azali wapi? ›

Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Indeed, He makes us wiser than the bird of the heavens.

12 Ata bagangi, Nzambe akoyanola te, mpo na lolendo ya bato mabe.

There they cry, and He does not answer, Because of the pride of evildoers.

13 Pamba te, Nzambe ayokaka te maloba na bango ya pamba, Nkolo-Na-Nguya-Nyonso azalaka ata na bokebi na yango te.

Surely God does not hear vanity, And the Mighty does not behold it.

14 Nzokande, yo ozali komeka koloba ete ozali komona Ye te, ete ozwi nanu eyano te na kolela na yo epai na Ye.

Indeed, though you say you do not behold Him, Judgment [is] before Him, and stays for 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,

And now, because there is not, He has appointed His anger, And He has not known in great extremity.

16 elingi koloba ete yo, Yobo, ofungoli monoko na yo kaka na pamba mpe otondisi yango na maloba ya bozoba. »

And Job opens his mouth [with] vanity, He multiplies words without knowledge.”