Hopa 13
1 Nana, kua kitea katoatia tenei e toku kanohi, kua rongo toku taringa, kua mohio.
Lo, mine eye has seen all this, mine ear has heard and understood it.
2 Ko ta koutou e mohio na, ko taku ano tena e mohio nei: kahore hoki ahau i hoki iho i a koutou.
What all of you know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
3 Ina, e whai kupu ano ahau ki te Kaha Rawa: a e hiahia ana ki te korerorero ki te Atua.
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4 Ko koutou ia, he hunga tito i te teka, he rata horihori noa koutou katoa.
But all of you are forgers of lies, all of you are all physicians of no value.
5 Te pai na, me i mutu rawa a koutou korero! Ko to koutou whakaaro nui hoki tena.
O that all of you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6 Tena ra, whakarongo mai ki taku tautohe, maharatia nga whawhai a oku ngutu.
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Me tautoko ta te Atua ki te kupu kino? me tautoko ranei tana ki te tinihanga?
Will all of you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8 Ka whakapai kanohi koia koutou ki a ia? Ma koutou ranei ta te Atua tautohe?
Will all of you accept his person? will all of you contend for God?
9 He pai ranei kia rapua ta koutou e ia? E maminga ranei koutou ki a ia, e pera me tetahi ka maminga nei ki te tangata?
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do all of you so mock him?
10 He pono ka whakahe ia ki a koutou ki te whakapai puku koutou i te kanohi.
He will surely reprove you, if all of you do secretly accept persons.
11 E kore ranei koutou e mataku ki tona nui? E kore ranei te wehi ki a ia e tau ki a koutou?
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12 Ko a koutou pepeha nunui he whakatauki no te pungarehu, ko o koutou parepare he parepare paru.
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 Kati te korero, waiho noa iho ahau, kia korero ai ahau, ahakoa pa mai te aha ki ahau.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14 He aha oku kikokiko i ngaua ai e oku niho? He aha toku wairua i waiho ai e ahau i roto i toku ringa?
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15 Ahakoa whakamate noa ia i ahau, ka tatari tonu ahau ki a ia: otiia ka mau tonu ahau ki oku ara i tona aroaro.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
16 Ko tenei hoki hei oranga moku; e kore hoki te tangata atuakore e tae mai ki tona aroaro.
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17 Ata whakarongo ki aku korero: kia anga mai o koutou taringa ki taku e whakapuaki nei.
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18 Na kua takoto taku mo te whakawa; e mohio ana ahau he tika ahau.
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19 Ko wai ia hei totohe ki ahau? Ka whakarongo puku hoki ahau aianei, a ka hemo ahau.
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the spirit.
20 Engari kaua nga mea e rua e meatia mai ki ahau; katahi ahau ka kore e huna i ahau i tou mata.
Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from you.
21 Kia matara atu tou ringa ki tawhiti i ahau; a kaua ahau e whakawehia e te mataku ki a koe.
Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid.
22 Ko reira, mau e karanga, a maku e whakao atu; maku ranei e korero, a mau e whakahoki kupu mai ki ahau.
Then call you, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer you me.
23 Ka hia ra oku kino, oku hara? Meinga ahau kia matau ki toku he me toku hara.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 He aha tou mata i huna ai e koe? He aha ahau i kiia ai e koe he hoariri?
Wherefore hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
25 E kapokapohia ranei e koe te pakawha e puhia haeretia ana? E whaia ranei e koe te papapa maroke?
Will you break a leaf driven back and forth? and will you pursue the dry stubble?
26 Kei te tuhituhi na hoki koe i nga mea kawa moku, e mea ana hoki kia riro mai i ahau nga he o toku taitamarikitanga.
For you write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27 Karapitia iho e koe oku waewae ki te rakau, he mea tohu nau oku ara katoa, a he mea tuhi nau oku takahanga waewae tawhio noa:
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 Ahakoa toku rite kei te mea pirau, e memeha noa ana, kei te kakahu e kainga ana e te purehurehu.
And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten.
