UJobe 35

1 UElihu wasephendula wathi:

Elihu spoke moreover, and said,

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

Thinkest thou this to be right, [that] thou saidst, My righteousness [is] more than God's?

3 Ngoba uthe kusizani kuwe, kungisizani okwedlula isono sami?

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be to thee? [and], What profit shall I have, [if I be cleansed] from my sin?

4 Mina ngizakuphendula, labangane bakho kanye lawe.

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

5 Khangela amazulu ubone; ukhangele amayezi, aphakeme kulawe.

Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou.

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

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or [if] thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?

7 Uba ulungile, umnikani, kumbe wemukelani esandleni sakho?

If thou art righteous, what givest thou to him? or what receiveth he from thy hand?

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

Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art]: and thy righteousness [may profit] the son of man.

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

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make [the oppressed] to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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

But none saith, Where [is] God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

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

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

12 Lapho bayakhala, kodwa kaphenduli, ngenxa yokuzigqaja kwababi.

There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

13 Isibili uNkulunkulu kayikuzwa ize, loSomandla kayikukunanza.

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

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

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, [yet] judgment [is] before him; therefore trust thou in him.

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

But now, because [it is] not [so], he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth [it] not in great extremity:

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

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.