Yobo 4
1 Elifazi, moto ya Temani, azwaki maloba mpe alobaki:
and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
2 « Soki moto moko ameki koloba na yo ata liloba moko, boni, okotomboka mpo na yango te? Kasi nani akoki penza kokanga motema mpe kozanga maloba?
to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
3 Kanisa nanu ndenge ozalaki koteya bato ebele, ndenge ozalaki kolendisa bato oyo balembaki!
behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
4 Maloba na yo ezalaki kolendisa bato oyo bazalaki kotepatepa, mpe oyo mabolongo na bango ezalaki kolemba.
to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
5 Kasi awa sik’oyo pasi ekomeli yo, olembi na yo! Awa pasi ebeti yo, okomi na yo koyoka somo!
for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay
6 Boni, kondima na yo epai ya Nzambe esengeli te kozala likonzi na yo, mpe bosembo na yo esengeli te kosimba elikya na yo?
not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
7 Kanisa nanu: Nani akotikala kokufa te mpo ete asalaka mabe te? Esika nini bato ya sembo bakotikala kokufa te?
to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide
8 Kolanda makambo oyo ngai nasili komona, bato oyo basalaka mabe, mpe ba-oyo balonaka minyoko, babukaka mpe kaka mabe lokola mbuma;
like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him
9 bakufaka na mopepe ya Nzambe mpe basilaka na mopepe ya kanda na Ye.
from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy
10 Nkosi ekoki na yango koganga, mpe mwana ya nkosi ekoki kotia makelele ndenge elingi, kasi Nzambe abukaka minu ya nkosi.
roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break
11 Nkosi ekufaka mpo na kozanga nyama ya kolia, mpe bana ya nkosi ya mwasi epanzanaka.
lion to perish from without prey and son: young animal lion to separate
12 Liloba moko eyelaki ngai na nkuku, mpe matoyi na ngai eyokaki yango na se penza:
and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him
13 kati na bandoto ya butu, na tango bato bazwaka pongi makasi,
in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human
14 kobanga mpe somo ekangaki ngai mpe eningisaki mikuwa na ngai nyonso;
dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread
15 molimo moko elekaki liboso ya elongi na ngai lokola mopepe, mpe suki ya moto na ngai etelemaki.
and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my
16 Molimo yango etelemaki wana, kasi nalongaki te kososola soki ezali nini; elilingi yango etelemaki liboso ya miso na ngai, mpe nayokaki mongongo moko koloba na se penza:
to stand: stand and not to recognize appearance his likeness to/for before eye my silence and voice to hear: hear
17 ‹ Boni, moto akoki solo koleka Nzambe na bosembo to akoki solo koleka Mokeli na ye na bule?
human from god to justify if: surely no from to make him be pure great man
18 Soki Nzambe atielaka basali na Ye motema te, soki kutu amonaka mabunga epai ya ba-anjelu na Ye,
look! in/on/with servant/slave his not be faithful and in/on/with messenger: angel his to set: make error
19 mpo na nini te epai ya bato oyo basalema na mabele, ba-oyo bazali kaka putulu mpe bakoki kofinafina bango lokola mitsopi?
also to dwell house: home clay which in/on/with dust foundation their to crush them to/for face: before moth
20 Kobanda na tongo kino na pokwa, bakataka-kataka bango na biteni; bakufaka mpo na libela, mpe moto ata moko te alandelaka likambo na bango;
from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
21 basinga oyo esimbaka bandako na bango ya kapo epikolamaka na mbalakata, mpe bakufaka ndenge wana bazanga bwanya. ›
not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom
