UJobe 23
1 Wasephendula uJobe wathi:
and to answer Job and to say
2 Lalamuhla isikhalazo sami silokubaba; isandla sami sinzima phezu kokububula kwami.
also [the] day rebellion complaint my hand my to honor: heavy upon sighing my
3 Kungathi ngabe ngiyazi lapho engingamthola khona! Bengingeza enkundleni yakhe!
who? to give: if only! to know and to find him to come (in): come till place his
4 Ngibeke kuhle udaba lwami phambi kwakhe, ngigcwalise umlomo wami ngokuphikisa.
to arrange to/for face: before his justice and lip my to fill argument
5 Bengingawazi amazwi azangiphendula ngawo, ngiqedisise azakutsho kimi.
to know speech to answer me and to understand what? to say to/for me
6 Uzaphikisana lami ngobukhulu bamandla yini? Hatshi, kodwa uzabeka inhliziyo yakhe kimi.
in/on/with abundance strength to contend with me me not surely he/she/it to set: consider in/on/with me
7 Lapho oqotho angaphikisana laye; ngakho bengizaphepha phakade kumahluleli wami.
there upright to rebuke with him and to escape to/for perpetuity from to judge me
8 Khangelani ngiya phambili, kodwa kakho, lemuva, kodwa kangimboni.
look! front: forward to go: went and nothing he and back and not to understand to/for him
9 Ngakwesokhohlo ekusebenzeni kwakhe, kodwa kangimboni; uyacatsha ngakwesokunene, kodwa kangimboni.
left in/on/with to make: do he and not to see to turn aside right and not to see: see
10 Kanti uyayazi indlela elami; kangihlole, ngizaphuma njengegolide.
for to know way: conduct with me me to test me like/as gold to come out: come
11 Unyawo lwami lubambelele enyathelweni lakhe, ngiyigcinile indlela yakhe, kangiphambukanga.
in/on/with step his to grasp foot my way: conduct his to keep: obey and not to stretch
12 Kangisukanga lemlayweni wezindebe zakhe, ngawalondoloza amazwi omlomo wakhe okwedlula isabelo sami.
commandment lips his and not to remove from statute: portion my to treasure word lip his
13 Kodwa yena ukokukodwa, ngubani-ke ongambuyisela emuva? Lokho umphefumulo wakhe okufisayo uyakwenza.
and he/she/it in/on/with one and who? to return: turn back him and soul: myself his to desire and to make: do
14 Ngoba uzaphelelisa engikumiselweyo; lezinto ezinengi ezinjalo zikuye.
for to complete statute: portion my and like/as them many with him
15 Ngenxa yalokho ngitshaywa luvalo phambi kwakhe; ngicabanga, ngiyamesaba.
upon so from face his to dismay to understand and to dread from him
16 Ngoba uNkulunkulu wenze inhliziyo yami yaphela amandla, loSomandla ungethusile.
and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me
17 Ngoba kangiqunywanga phambi komnyama, wagubuzela ubumnyama ebusweni bami.
for not to destroy from face: before darkness and from face my to cover darkness
