Yobu 13
1 “Laba, eriiso lyange lyalaba ebyo byonna, n’okutu kwange ne kuwulira ne mbitegeera.
Lo, mine eye has seen all this, mine ear has heard and understood it.
2 Kye mumanyi nange kye mmanyi; siri wa wansi ku mmwe.
What all of you know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
3 Naye neegomba okwogera n’oyo Ayinzabyonna, era n’okuleeta ensonga zange mu maaso ga Katonda.
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4 Naye mmwe mumpayiriza; muli basawo abatagasa mmwe mwenna!
But all of you are forgers of lies, all of you are all physicians of no value.
5 Kale singa musirika! Olwo lwe mwandibadde n’amagezi.
O that all of you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6 Muwulire kaakano endowooza yange, muwulirize okwegayirira kw’emimwa gyange.
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Katonda munaamwogerera nga mwogera ebitali bya butuukirivu? Munaamwogerera eby’obulimba?
Will all of you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8 Munaamulaga ng’ataliiko luuyi, munaamuwoleza ensonga ze.
Will all of you accept his person? will all of you contend for God?
9 Singa akukebera, anaakusanga oli bulungi? Oyinza okumulimba nga bw’oyinza okulimba abantu?
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do all of you so mock him?
10 Tayinza butakunenya, singa osaliriza mu bubba.
He will surely reprove you, if all of you do secretly accept persons.
11 Ekitiibwa kye ekisukiridde tekyandikutiisizza? Entiisa ye teyandikuguddeko?
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12 Ebigambo byammwe ebijjukirwa ngero za vvu, n’okwewolereza kwammwe kwa bbumba.
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 Musirike nze njogere; kyonna ekinantukako kale kintuukeko.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14 Lwaki neeteeka mu mitawaana, obulamu bwange ne mbutwalira mu mikono gyange?
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15 Ne bw’anzita, mu ye mwe nnina essuubi, ddala ddala nditwala ensonga zange mu maaso ge.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
16 Ddala kino kinaavaamu okusumululwa kwange, kubanga teri muntu atatya Katonda ayinza kwetantala kujja mu maaso ge!
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17 Muwulirize ebigambo byange n’obwegendereza; amatu gammwe gawulire bye ŋŋamba.
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18 Kaakano nga bwe ntegese empoza yange, mmanyi nti nzija kwejeerera.
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19 Waliwo ayinza okuleeta emisango gye nvunaanibwa? Bwe kiba bwe kityo, nzija kusirika nfe.
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the spirit.
20 Ebintu ebyo ebibiri byokka by’oba ompa, Ayi Katonda, awo sijja kukwekweka.
Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from you.
21 Nzigyako omukono gwo, olekere awo okuntiisatiisa n’okunkangakanga.
Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid.
22 Kale nno ompite nzija kukuddamu, oba leka njogere ggwe onziremu.
Then call you, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer you me.
23 Nsobi meka era bibi bimeka bye nkoze? Ndaga ekibi kyange era n’omusango gwange.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 Lwaki okweka amaaso go, n’onfuula omulabe wo?
Wherefore hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
25 Onoobonyaabonya ekikoola ekifuuyiddwa omuyaga? Onooyigga ebisasiro ebikaze?
Will you break a leaf driven back and forth? and will you pursue the dry stubble?
26 Kubanga ompadiikako ebintu ebiruma, n’ondeetera okuddamu okwetikka ebibi byange eby’omu buvubuka.
For you write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27 Oteeka ebigere byange mu nvuba, era okuuma butiribiri amakubo gange mwe mpita ng’oteeka obubonero ku bisinziiro by’ebigere byange.
You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly unto all my paths; you set a print upon the heels of my feet.
28 Bw’atyo omuntu bw’aggwaawo ng’ekintu ekivundu, ng’olugoye oluliiriddwa ennyenje.”
And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten.
