UJobe 35

1 UElihu wasephendula wathi:

And Elius resumed and said,

2 Ukhumbula ukuthi lokhu kuqondile yini? Uthe: Ukulunga kwami kwedlula okukaNkulunkulu.

What is this that you think to be according to right? who are you that you have said, I am righteous before the Lord?

3 Ngoba uthe kusizani kuwe, kungisizani okwedlula isono sami?

I will answer you, and your three friends.

4 Mina ngizakuphendula, labangane bakho kanye lawe.

Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high [they are] above you.

5 Khangela amazulu ubone; ukhangele amayezi, aphakeme kulawe.

If you have sinned, what will you do?

6 Uba usona, wenzani kuye? Uba iziphambeko zakho zizinengi, wenzani kuye?

and if too you have transgressed much, what can you perform?

7 Uba ulungile, umnikani, kumbe wemukelani esandleni sakho?

And suppose you are righteous, what will you give him? or what shall he receive of your hand?

8 Ububi bakho buthinta umuntu onjengawe, lokulunga kwakho indodana yomuntu.

Your ungodliness [may affect] a man who is like to you; or your righteousness a son of man.

9 Ngenxa yobunengi bencindezelo babenza bakhale; bayakhala ngenxa yengalo yabalamandla.

They that are oppressed of a multitude will be ready to cry out; they will call for help because of the arm of many.

10 Kodwa kakho othi: Ungaphi uNkulunkulu umenzi wami, onika amahubo ebusuku,

But none said, Where is God that made me, who appoints the night-watches;

11 osifundisa okwedlula inyamazana zomhlaba, asenze sihlakaniphe okwedlula inyoni zamazulu?

who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?

12 Lapho bayakhala, kodwa kaphenduli, ngenxa yokuzigqaja kwababi.

There they shall cry, and none shall listen, even because of the insolence of wicked men.

13 Isibili uNkulunkulu kayikuzwa ize, loSomandla kayikukunanza.

For the Lord desires not to look on error, for he is the Almighty One.

14 Yebo, lanxa usithi: Kawumboni, kanti isahlulelo siphambi kwakhe; ngakho umlindele.

He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and he will save me: and do you plead before him, if you can praise him, as it is [possible] even now.

15 Kodwa khathesi, ngoba intukuthelo yakhe ingajezisanga, laye kayikwejwayela kakhulu yini ukuziphakamisa?

For he is not [now] regarding his wrath, nor has he noticed severely any trespass.

16 Ngakho uJobe uvule umlomo wakhe ngeze, wandisa amazwi engelalwazi.

Yet Job vainly opens his mouth, in ignorance he multiplies words.