UJobe 23

1 Waphendula uJobe wathi:

And he answered Job and he said.

2 “Lalamuhla ukusola kwami kulokhu kubuhlungu kabi, isandla sakhe siyasinda loba ngibubula kangaka.

Also this day [the] rebellion of complaint my hand my it is heavy on groaning my.

3 Ngabe ngiyakwazi lapho engingamfumana khona; aluba nje bengingaya emzini wakhe!

Who? will he give I knew and I will find him I will come to place his.

4 Bengizayibeka kuhle indaba yami phambi kwakhe ngigcwalise umlomo wami ngamazwi empikiswano.

Let me set in order before him a case and mouth my let me fill arguments.

5 Bengizakuzwa ukuthi yena uphendula athini, ngikuhlolisise lokho akutshoyo.

I want to know [the] words [which] he will answer me and I want to understand what? will he say to me.

6 Kambe angangiphikisa ngamandla na? Hatshi, angazake angethese cala.

¿ With greatness of power will he conduct a case with me not surely he he will put on me.

7 Lapho umuntu oqotho ubengendlala indaba yakhe phambi kwakhe, njalo bengizakhululwa lanini kumahluleli wami.

There an upright [person] [will be] reasoning with him and I will deliver to perpetuity from judge my.

8 Kodwa nxa ngisiya empumalanga, yena kakho khona; nxa ngisiya entshonalanga, kangimfumani khona.

Here! forward I go and there not [is] he and backwards and not I perceive him.

9 Nxa esemsebenzini enyakatho, kangimboni; angaphendukela eningizimu, kangiboni lokuthi tshazi kwakhe.

[the] left [side] When acts he and not I see [him] he turns [the] right [side] and not I see [him].

10 Kodwa uyayazi indlela engihamba ngayo; nxa esengilingile, ngizaphuma senginjengegolide.

That he knows [the] way with me he has tested me like gold I will come forth.

11 Inyawo zami bezilokhu zilandelana lezinyathelo zakhe; ngalela endleleni yakhe angaze ngaphambuka.

On step his it has taken hold foot my way his I have kept and not I have turned aside.

12 Angigudlukanga emilayweni yezindebe zakhe; ngiwenze igugu amazwi omlomo wakhe ukwedlula isinkwa sami sansukuzonke.

[the] commandment of Lips his and not I have ceased more than portion my I have treasured up [the] words of mouth his.

13 Kodwa uzimele yedwa, ngubani ongaphikisana laye na? Uyenza loba yini ayifunayo.

And he [is] one and who? will he turn back him and [that which] self his it has desired and he has done.

14 Uyagcwalisa isimiso sakhe ngami, njalo manengi amacebo anjalo awagcinileyo.

For he performs decree my and like them many [are] with him.

15 Yikho-nje ngithuthumela ukuma phambi kwakhe; ngithi ngingakukhumbula konke lokhu ngimesabe.

There-fore of him I am terrified I consider and I may be in dread from him.

16 UNkulunkulu usenze inhliziyo yami yaphela amandla; uSomandla usengethusile.

And God he has made faint heart my and [the] Almighty he has terrified me.

17 Kodwa kawuyikungithulisa umnyama lo, umnyama lo onzima ovala ubuso bami.”

For not I have been destroyed from before darkness and from before me it covers gloom.