Joba 2
1 Ary tamin’ ny indray andro koa dia avy ireo zanak’ Andriamanitra hiseho teo anatrehan’ i Jehovah, ka dia mba tonga teo koa Satana tafaharo taminy hiseho teo anatrehan’ i Jehovah.
And it came to pass on a certain day, that the angels of God came to stand before the Lord, and the devil came among them to stand before the Lord.
2 Dia hoy Jehovah tamin’ i Satana: Avy taiza ianao? Ary Satana dia namaly an’ i Jehovah ka nanao hoe: Avy nizahazaha teny amin’ ny tany aho ka nivezivezy teny.
And the Lord, said to the devil, Whence come you? Then the devil said before the Lord, I am come from going through the world, and walking about the whole earth.
3 Dia hoy Jehovah tamin’ i Satana: Efa nandinika an’ i Joba mpanompoko va ianao? Fa tsy misy tahaka azy eny ambonin’ ny tany, fa olona marina sy mahitsy izy sady matahotra an’ Andriamanitra ka mifady ny ratsy? Ary mbola mitana mafy ny fahamarinany ihany izy, na dia nanesika Ahy hamongotra azy foana aza ianao.
And the Lord said to the devil, Hast you then observed my servant Job, that there is none of [men] upon the earth like him, a harmless, true, blameless, godly man, abstaining from all evil? and he yet cleaves to innocence, whereas you has told [me] to destroy his substance without cause?
4 Ary Satana dia namaly an’ i Jehovah ka nanao hoe: Hoditra fefin’ ny hoditra, eny, izay rehetra ananan’ ny olona dia homeny ho-fefin’ ny ainy.
And the devil answered and said to the Lord, Skin for skin, all that a man has will he give as a ransom for his life.
5 Fa ahinjiro ange ny tananao, ka tendreo ny taolany sy ny nofony raha tsy handà Anao eo Imasonao aza Izy e!
Nay, but put forth your hand, and touch his bones and his flesh: verily he will bless you to [your] face.
6 Dia hoy Jehovah tamin’ i Satana: Indro, eo an-tananao izy; ny ainy tokana ihany no aza asiana.
And the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I deliver him up to you; only save his life.
7 Dia nivoaka Satana avy teo anatrehan’ i Jehovah ka namely vay ratsy an’ i Joba hatramin’ ny faladiany ka hatramin’ ny tampon-dohany.
So the devil went out from the Lord, and struck Job with sore boils from [his] feet to [his] head.
8 Dia naka tavim-bilany hihaorany izy, raha nipetraka teo an-davenona.
And he took a potsherd to scrape away the discharge, and sat upon a dung-heap outside the city.
9 Ary hoy ny vadiny taminy: Mbola mitana ny fahamarinanao ihany va ianao? Mahafoiza an’ Andriamanitra ianao, dia aoka ho faty.
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
10 Fa hoy izy taminy: Tahaka ny tenin’ ny anankiray amin’ ny vehivavy adala ny teninao. Moa ny soa ihany va no horaisintsika avy amin’ Andriamanitra, fa tsy ny ratsy koa? Tamin’ izany rehetra izany dia tsy nanota tamin’ ny molony Joba.
But he looked on her, and said to her, You have spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? In all these things that happened to him, Job sinned not at all with his lips before God.
11 Ary rehefa ren’ ny sakaizan’ i Joba telo lahy ny fahoriana rehetra izay nanjo azy, dia samy niainga avy tany amin’ ny fonenany avy izy dia Elifaza Temanita sy Bildada Sohita ary Zofara Namatita ary nifamotoana izy mba handeha hitsapa alahelo sy hampionona azy.
Now his three friends having heard of all the evil that was come upon him, came to him each from his own country: Eliphaz the king of the Thaemans, Baldad sovereign of the Saucheans, Sophar king of he Minaeans: and they came to him with one accord, to comfort and to visit him.
12 Ary nanopy ny masony teny lavidavitra eny izy telo lahy ka tsy nahafantatra azy, dia nanandratra ny feony izy ka nitomany; ary samy nandriatra ny lambany avy koa izy rehetra, dia nanopy vovoka ho amin’ ny lanitra hiraraka amin’ ny lohany.
And when they saw him from a distance they did not know him; and they cried with a loud voice, and wept, and tore every one his garment, and sprinkled dust upon [their heads],
13 Ary niara-nipetraka teo aminy tamin’ ny tany hafitoan’ andro sy hafitoan’ alina izy, nefa tsy nisy niteny taminy na dia indraim-bava akory aza, satria hitany fa mafy loatra ny fahoriany.
and they sat down beside him seven days and seven nights, and no one of them spoke; for they saw that his affliction was dreadful and very great.
