UJobe 4
1 Wasephendula u-Elifazi umThemani wathi:
and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
2 “Nxa umuntu angaphosa ilizwi nje kuwe uzacunuka na? Kodwa ngubani ongathula angakhulumi na?
to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
3 Khumbula ukuthi sewabafundisa njani abanengi, ukuthi ubaqinise njani abalezandla ezibuthakathaka.
behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
4 Amazwi akho abasekele labo abakhubekayo; uwaqinisile amadolo axegayo.
to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
5 Kodwa manje uhlupho luze kuwe, usuphela amandla; lukutshaya ubusudela ithemba.
for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay
6 Kungani ukukholwa kwakho kungabi yiso isibindi sakho na lezindlela zakho ezimsulwa zibe lithemba lakho na?
not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
7 Khumbula manje: Ngubani owathi engelacala wabhubha na? Kungaphi lapho abaqotho abake babhujiswa khona na?
to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide
8 Ngokubona kwami labo abalima okubi lalabo abahlanyela ububi bavuna bona.
like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him
9 Ngokuphefumula kukaNkulunkulu bayabhubha; ngokukhwaza kolaka lwakhe bayafa.
from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy
10 Izilwane zingabhonga zihwabhe, kodwa amazinyo ezilwane ezinkulu ayephuka.
roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break
11 Isilwane siyafa ngokuswela ukudla besekuthi imidlwane yesilwanekazi ihlakazeke.
lion to perish from without prey and son: young animal lion to separate
12 Kulethwe ilizwi kimi ngasese, indlebe zami zilizwile linyenyezwa.
and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him
13 Phakathi kwamaphupho adungayo ebusuku, lapho abantu belele obukabhuka,
in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human
14 ukwesaba lokuthuthumela kwangifikela kwenza wonke amathambo ami aqhaqhazela.
dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread
15 Kwathi tshazi umoya emehlweni ami, wahlasimula umzimba wami lenwele zami zema.
and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my
16 Umoya lowo wema, kodwa kangikwazanga ukuthi kuyini. Kwakumi into phambi kwamehlo ami, ngasengisizwa ilizwi elihelezayo:
to stand: stand and not to recognize appearance his likeness to/for before eye my silence and voice to hear: hear
17 ‘Kambe umuntu angalunga ukwedlula uNkulunkulu na? Umuntu angahlanzeka kuloMenzi wakhe na?
human from god to justify if: surely no from to make him be pure great man
18 Nxa uNkulunkulu engazethembi izinceku zakhe, nxa ebeka izingilosi zakhe umlandu ngokona,
look! in/on/with servant/slave his not be faithful and in/on/with messenger: angel his to set: make error
19 pho-ke kuzakuba njani kulabo abahlala ezindlini zodaka, ozisekelo zazo zisothulini, abahlifizeka lula njengenondo!
also to dwell house: home clay which in/on/with dust foundation their to crush them to/for face: before moth
20 Phakathi kokusa lokuhlwa bayabhidlizwa babe yizicucu; bengananzwa langubani, bayabhubha kokuphela.
from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
21 Izintambo zamatende abo kazidonswa na, bafe bengelalwazi?’”
not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom
