UJobe 16
1 Wasephendula uJobe wathi:
And Job answered and said,
2 Ngizwile izinto ezinengi ezinje; lingabaduduzi abakhathazayo lina lonke.
I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.
3 Kuzakuba lesiphetho yini emazwini angumoya? Kumbe kuyini okulicunulayo ukuthi liphendule?
Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
4 Lami bengingakhuluma njengani uba umphefumulo wenu ubusendaweni yomphefumulo wami; bengingabuthelela amazwi phezu kwenu, ngilinikinele ikhanda lami.
I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;
5 Bengingaliqinisa ngomlomo wami, lokunyikinyeka kwendebe zami bekungadedisaubuhlungu benu.
[But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].
6 Uba ngikhuluma, ubuhlungu bami kabudedi; uba ngiyekela, kuyini okusuka kimi?
If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
7 Kodwa khathesi ungidinisile yena, wena uchithile yonke inhlangano yami.
But now he hath made me weary; ...thou hast made desolate all my family;
8 Ungitshwabhanisile, kube yibufakazi, lokucaka kwami kungivukele, kuyafakaza ebusweni bami.
Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.
9 Ulaka lwakhe luyangidwengula, njalo uyangizonda; ungigedlela amazinyo akhe; isitha sami singicijisela amehlo aso.
His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.
10 Bangikhamisela umlomo wabo, bangiwakala esihlathini ngokuyangisa, bengihlanganyela ndawonye.
They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.
11 UNkulunkulu unginikele kokhohlakeleyo, wangiphosela ezandleni zababi.
God hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.
12 Ngangonwabile, kodwa wangichoboza, wangidumela ngentamo, wangiphahlaza, wangimisa ngaba yinto yakhe yokunenjwa.
I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
13 Abatshoki bakhe bangigombolozela; uqhekeze izinso zami, engayekeli, wachithela emhlabathini inyongo yami.
His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14 Wangivodloza ngokuvodlovodloza, wagijimela kimi njengeqhawe.
He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.
15 Ngathunga isaka phezu kwesikhumba sami, ngathukuza uphondo lwami othulini.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.
16 Ubuso bami bubomvu ngokukhala, lenkotsheni zami kulethunzi lokufa,
My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17 lanxa kungekho isihluku ezandleni zami, lomkhuleko wami uhlanzekile.
Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
18 Mhlaba, ungaligqibeli igazi lami, lokukhala kwami kakungabi landawo.
O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!
19 Lakhathesi, khangelani, ubufakazi bami busemazulwini, lomfakazi wami usezindaweni eziphakemeyo.
Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.
20 Abangane bami bayangiklolodela; ilihlo lami liyathonta kuNkulunkulu.
My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
21 Kungathi kungaba khona ongamlamulela umuntu kuNkulunkulu, njengendodana yomuntu kumngane wayo.
Oh that there were arbitration for a man with God, as a son of man for his friend!
22 Ngoba iminyaka emilutshwana izafika, njalo ngizahamba ngendlela engingayikubuya ngayo.
For years [few] in number shall pass, — and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
