UJobe 10
1 “Senginengwa yimpilo yami; ngakho sengizasola ngingasathikazi ngithulule ubuhlungu bomphefumulo wami.
I am weary of my life; I will give free expression to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 Ngizakuthi kuNkulunkulu: Ungangilahli, kodwa ngitshela ukuthi ungethesa cala bani.
I will say to God, 'Do not merely condemn me; show me why you accuse me.
3 Kuyakuthabisa na ukungizwisa ubuhlungu, ukulahla umsebenzi wezandla zakho, ikanti uyahlekelela ngamacebo ababi?
Is it good to you that you should oppress me, to despise the work of your hands while you smile on the plans of the wicked?
4 Ulamehlo enyama na? Ubona njengokubona kwabantu na?
Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see like a man sees?
5 Insuku zakho ziyafanana lezabantu yini, kumbe iminyaka yakho njengeyomuntu yini,
Are your days like the days of mankind or your years like the years of people,
6 osungaze uphenye iziphambeko zami njalo ulandelele isono sami,
that you inquire after my iniquity and search after my sin,
7 loba wena ukwazi ukuthi angilacala lokuthi kakho ongangikhulula esandleni sakho?
although you know I am not guilty and there is no one who can rescue me from your hand?
8 Izandla zakho zangibumba zangenza. Pho usuzaphenduka ungibhidlize na?
Your hands have framed and fashioned me together round about, yet you are destroying me.
9 Khumbula ukuthi wangibumba njengomdaka. Pho usuzabuye ungiphendule uthuli na?
Call to mind, I beg you, that you have fashioned me like clay; will you bring me into dust again?
10 Kawungichithanga yini njengochago njalo wangijiyisa njengolaza,
Have you not poured me out like milk and curdled me like cheese?
11 wangigqokisa ngesikhumba lenyama, wangithungela ndawonye ngamathambo lemisipha?
You have clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 Wangipha ukuphila wangitshengisa umusa, ukunanza kwakho kwawelusa umoya wami.
You have granted me life and covenant faithfulness; your help has guarded my spirit.
13 Kodwa lokhu yikho owakufihla enhliziyweni yakho, njalo ngiyazi ukuthi lokhu kwakukhona engqondweni yakho:
Yet these things you hid in your heart— I know that this is what you were thinking:
14 Nxa ngona, ngabe wawungikhangele wawungeke wekela ukona kwami kungajeziswa.
that if I sinned, you would notice it; you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
15 Aluba ngilecala, maye mina! Laloba ngimsulwa, akukho engingakwenza, ngoba ngiyafa ngenhloni njalo ngiyagalula ekuhluphekeni kwami.
If I have acted wickedly, woe to me; and even if I acted righteously, I could not lift up my head, since I am filled with disgrace— see my affliction!
16 Nxa ngingathi ngivusa ikhanda ungicwathela njengesilwane uphinde utshengise amandla akho esabekayo kimi.
If my head were lifted up, you would stalk me like a lion; and again you would show yourself with marvellous acts of power against me.
17 Uletha ofakazi abatsha abangilahlayo, wandise ulaka lwakho kimi; amabutho akho angihlasela amaviyo ngamaviyo.
You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger against me; you attack me with fresh armies.
18 Pho kungani wangikhupha esibelethweni na? Ngifisa ukuthi ngabe ngafa ngingakabonwa laloba yiliphi ilihlo.
Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up my spirit and that no eye had ever seen me.
19 Aluba ngavele ngingabi ngophilayo, loba ngathwalwa ngisuka esibelethweni ngasiwa ethuneni!
I would have been as though I had never existed; I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Insuku zami ezilutshwane kaseziphelile nje? Akungifulathele ukuze ngizuze umzuzwana wentokozo nje
Are not my days only a few? Stop then, let me alone, so that I may have a little rest
21 ngingakayi lapho okungabuywa khona, elizweni lobumnyama lethunzi elikhulu,
before I go from where I will not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,
22 elizweni lobusuku obujule ngempela, elethunzi elinzima lengxubevange, lapho lokukhanya kunjengobumnyama.”
the land that is as dark as midnight, the land of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is like midnight.'”
