UJobe 26
1 UJobe wasephendula wathi:
Then Job made answer and said,
2 “Usumsize njani ongelamandla! Usuyilamulele njani ingalo ebuthakathaka!
How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!
3 Yiseluleko esinjani osusiphe lowo ongelakuhlakanipha! Njalo usubonise mbono bani!
How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
4 Ngubani okuncedisileyo ukukhuluma amazwi la na? Ngokabani umoya okhulume ngomlomo wakho na?
To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?
5 Abafileyo basebuhlungwini obukhulu, labo abangaphansi kwamanzi lalabo abahlala kuwo.
The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil. (Sheol h7585)
7 Uyawendlala umkhathi wenyakatho endaweni engelalutho; aphanyeke umhlaba phezu kweze.
By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
8 Ugoqele amanzi emayezini akhe, kodwa amayezi kawapatshaki yikusindwa ngamanzi.
By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
9 Uyayigubuzela inyanga egcweleyo, endlale amayezi phezu kwayo.
By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.
10 Umisa umkhawulo wokwengama umkhathi emanzini kube ngumngcele phakathi kokukhanya lobumnyama.
By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.
11 Izinsika zamazulu ziyazamazama, zisethuswa yikukhuza kwakhe.
The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.
12 Ngamandla akhe waluthulisa ulwandle; ngenhlakanipho yakhe waquma uRahabi waba yiziqa.
By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.
13 Ngomoya wakhe umkhathi wacethula; isandla sakhe sayigwaza inyoka ibaleka.
By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.
14 Njalo le yimisebenzi yakhe engaphandle nje ekucineni; esikuzwayo yilizwana nje lokunyenyeza kwakhe! Pho ngubani ongawuzwisisa umdumo wamandla akhe na?”
See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.
