UJobe 16
1 Wasephendula uJobe wathi:
Bvt Iob answered, and said,
2 Ngizwile izinto ezinengi ezinje; lingabaduduzi abakhathazayo lina lonke.
I haue oft times heard such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
3 Kuzakuba lesiphetho yini emazwini angumoya? Kumbe kuyini okulicunulayo ukuthi liphendule?
Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere?
4 Lami bengingakhuluma njengani uba umphefumulo wenu ubusendaweni yomphefumulo wami; bengingabuthelela amazwi phezu kwenu, ngilinikinele ikhanda lami.
I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you,
5 Bengingaliqinisa ngomlomo wami, lokunyikinyeka kwendebe zami bekungadedisaubuhlungu benu.
But I woulde strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips should asswage your sorowe.
6 Uba ngikhuluma, ubuhlungu bami kabudedi; uba ngiyekela, kuyini okusuka kimi?
Though I speake, my sorow can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I?
7 Kodwa khathesi ungidinisile yena, wena uchithile yonke inhlangano yami.
But now hee maketh mee wearie: O God, thou hast made all my congregation desolate,
8 Ungitshwabhanisile, kube yibufakazi, lokucaka kwami kungivukele, kuyafakaza ebusweni bami.
And hast made me full of wrinkles which is a witnesse thereof, and my leannes ryseth vp in me, testifying the same in my face.
9 Ulaka lwakhe luyangidwengula, njalo uyangizonda; ungigedlela amazinyo akhe; isitha sami singicijisela amehlo aso.
His wrath hath torne me, and hee hateth me, and gnasheth vpon mee with his teeth: mine enemie hath sharpened his eyes against me.
10 Bangikhamisela umlomo wabo, bangiwakala esihlathini ngokuyangisa, bengihlanganyela ndawonye.
They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.
11 UNkulunkulu unginikele kokhohlakeleyo, wangiphosela ezandleni zababi.
God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked.
12 Ngangonwabile, kodwa wangichoboza, wangidumela ngentamo, wangiphahlaza, wangimisa ngaba yinto yakhe yokunenjwa.
I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe.
13 Abatshoki bakhe bangigombolozela; uqhekeze izinso zami, engayekeli, wachithela emhlabathini inyongo yami.
His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, and powreth my gall vpon the ground.
14 Wangivodloza ngokuvodlovodloza, wagijimela kimi njengeqhawe.
He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant.
15 Ngathunga isaka phezu kwesikhumba sami, ngathukuza uphondo lwami othulini.
I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust.
16 Ubuso bami bubomvu ngokukhala, lenkotsheni zami kulethunzi lokufa,
My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,
17 lanxa kungekho isihluku ezandleni zami, lomkhuleko wami uhlanzekile.
Though there be no wickednesse in mine hands, and my prayer be pure.
18 Mhlaba, ungaligqibeli igazi lami, lokukhala kwami kakungabi landawo.
O earth, couer not thou my blood, and let my crying finde no place.
19 Lakhathesi, khangelani, ubufakazi bami busemazulwini, lomfakazi wami usezindaweni eziphakemeyo.
For lo, now my witnesse is in the heauen, and my record is on hie.
20 Abangane bami bayangiklolodela; ilihlo lami liyathonta kuNkulunkulu.
My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.
21 Kungathi kungaba khona ongamlamulela umuntu kuNkulunkulu, njengendodana yomuntu kumngane wayo.
Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!
22 Ngoba iminyaka emilutshwana izafika, njalo ngizahamba ngendlela engingayikubuya ngayo.
For the yeeres accounted come, and I shall go the way, whence I shall not returne.
