Joba 17
1 Efa ho ritra ny aiko; Efa milopilopy ny androko; Efa miandry ahy ny fasana.
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
2 Eny, fanesoana tokoa no manodidina ahy, ary tsy maintsy mijery ny filany ady amiko aho.
Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.
3 Masìna Hianao, aoka ny tenanao ihany no hiantoka ahy aminao; Fa iza moa no hety hiantoka ahy?
Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself. Who is there that will strike hands with me?
4 Fa ny fon’ ireto dia voahidinao tsy hidiran’ ny fahalalana; koa izany no tsy hanandratanao azy.
For thou have hid their heart from understanding. Therefore thou shall not exalt them.
5 Izay manolotra ny sakaizany ho babo, dia ho pahina kosa ny mason’ ny zanany.
He who denounces his friends for a prey, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.
6 Ary efa nanao ahy ho ambentinteny amin’ ny firenena Izy, ka rorany mandrakariva ny tavako.
But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.
7 Efa pahina ny masoko noho ny alahelo; Ary efa toy ny aloka ny momba ny tenako rehetra.
My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
8 Ankona noho izany ny olona mahitsy, ary ny tsy manan-tsiny mihendratra mahita ny mpihatsaravela-tsihy.
Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the profane.
9 Fa ny marina mifikitra tsara amin’ ny halehany, ary izay madio tanana no hitombo hery.
Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
10 Avia avokoa indray ary ianareo rehetra tsy mahita izay olon-kendry eo aminareo aho.
But as for you all, come on now again, and I shall not find a wise man among you.
11 Mihelina ny androko, voaongotra ny fikasako. Dia izay hevitra fikirin’ ny foko indrindra;
My days are past. My purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12 Ny alina ataon’ ireny ho antoandro, ary ny mazava ho efa akaiky, nefa tamy ihany ny maizina.
They change the night into day. The light, they say, is near to the darkness.
13 Raha mbola misy antenaiko, dia ny fiainan-tsi-hita fonenako ihany; Ao amin’ ny maizina no hamelarako ny fandriako. (Sheol h7585)
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, (Sheol h7585)
14 Ny fasana no nantsoiko hoe: Raiko ianao; Ary ny kankana: Reniko sy anabaviko ianao.
if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
15 Fa aiza ary ny fanantenako? Ary iza no mahita azy?
where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
