Joba 35

1 Le hoe ty natovo’ i Eliho:

And Elius resumed and said,

2 Atao’o mahity hao i nanoe’o ty hoe, Izaho ro vantañe te aman’ Añahare.

What is this that you think to be according to right? who are you that you have said, I am righteous before the Lord?

3 Fa hoe irehe, Inoñe ty ho tombo’e ho azo? Ino ty ho tambeko mandikoatse te tsy nandilatse?

I will answer you, and your three friends.

4 Hanoiñe azo naho o rañe’o mindre ama’oo iraho.

Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high [they are] above you.

5 Mitalakesa mb’andikerañe ey vaho Mahaisaha; Heheke o rahoñeo, ambòne’o iereo.

If you have sinned, what will you do?

6 Ihe mandilatse, Mijoy aze hao? Ie bey hakeo, Inoñe ty anoe’o ama’e?

and if too you have transgressed much, what can you perform?

7 Ie vantan-drehe, ino ty atolo’o aze, ke ino ty rambese’e am-pità’o?

And suppose you are righteous, what will you give him? or what shall he receive of your hand?

8 Ho ama’ ondaty manahak’ azo ty hatsivokara’o naho amo ana’ ondatio ty havañona’o.

Your ungodliness [may affect] a man who is like to you; or your righteousness a son of man.

9 O hamarom-pamorekekeañeo ty itoreova’ iareo, ty sira maoza’ i maroy ty ikaiha’iareo,

They that are oppressed of a multitude will be ready to cry out; they will call for help because of the arm of many.

10 fe tsy eo ty manao: Aia t’i Andrianamboatse ahy, i Mpañomey sabo an-kaleñey,

But none said, Where is God that made me, who appoints the night-watches;

11 i mañòke raha maro amantika te amo bibi’ ty tane toioy, vaho ampahihire’e ambone’ o voron-tiokeo?

who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?

12 Eo ty mikaike, f’ie tsy manoiñe ty amy firengevoha’ ondaty raty tserekeoy.

There they shall cry, and none shall listen, even because of the insolence of wicked men.

13 Toe tsy janjin’ Añahare ty raha kafoake; tsy haoñe’ i El-Sadai,

For the Lord desires not to look on error, for he is the Almighty One.

14 Antsake t’ie manao te tsy mahaoniñe aze; aolo’e eo ty enta’o, aa le liñiso;

He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and he will save me: and do you plead before him, if you can praise him, as it is [possible] even now.

15 Ie henaneo, mbe tsy nitilihe’e an-kaviñera’e, tsy loho nihaoñe’e o fandilarañeo.

For he is not [now] regarding his wrath, nor has he noticed severely any trespass.

16 Aa le evoñe ty aakam-palie’ Iobe; ampitomboa’e lañonañe tsy aman-kilala.

Yet Job vainly opens his mouth, in ignorance he multiplies words.