Jobho 22
1 Ipapo Erifazi muTemani akapindura akati:
Then Eliphaz replied,
2 “Ko, munhu angabatsira Mwari here? Kunyange munhu akachenjera angamubatsira here?
“(Can anyone be useful to God?/Certainly no one can be useful to God.) [RHQ] Even people who are wise cannot be helpful to God.
3 Wamasimba Ose angawana mufaro weiko dai iwe wakarurama? Aibatsirwa neiko dai nzira dzako dzaiva dzakarurama?
If you were righteous, (would that benefit Almighty [God]?/that certainly would not benefit Almighty [God].) [RHQ] If you had (lived a perfect life/never done anything that is wrong), would that help him?
4 “Imhaka yokumunamata kwako here zvaanokutsiura uyewo achikupa mhosva?
“Is it because you have an awesome respect for God that he punishes you? Is that the reason that he puts you on trial?
5 Zvakaipa zvako hazvina kukura here? Handiti zvivi zvako hazviperi?
No, it certainly must be [RHQ] because you are extremely wicked. It must be that the evil things that you have done are so many that no one can count them!
6 Wakakumbira rubatso kuhama dzako pasina; wakatorera vanhu nguo dzavo, uchivasiya vasina kupfeka.
You must have lent money to others and wrongly forced them to give you things to guarantee that they would pay that money back to you; you must have taken all their clothes and left them with nothing to wear.
7 Wakanyima mvura vakaneta uye wakanyima vane nzara zvokudya,
You must not have given water to those who were thirsty, and you must have refused to give food to those who were hungry.
8 kunyange wakanga uri munhu ane simba, ane minda yake, uri munhu anokudzwa, agere pairi.
Because you were very powerful, you [must have] taken over all the people’s land, and then, being very respected, you have begun to live on that land.
9 Wakadzinga chirikadzi dzisina chinhu uye wakavhuna simba renherera.
[When] widows [came to you for help], you [must have] sent [them] away without giving them anything, and you must have oppressed orphans.
10 Ndokusaka misungo yakakukomberedza, ndokusaka njodzi ichikuvhundutsa,
Because of all that, now there are pits around you for you to fall into, and suddenly there are things that terrify you and cause you to tremble.
11 ndokusaka kuine rima usingakwanisi kuona, uye mafashamu emvura achikufukidza.
[It is as though] it has become very dark, with the result that you cannot see anything, and [it is as though] [MET] a flood covers you.
12 “Ko, Mwari haazi kumusoro kwokudenga here? Tarira kukwirira kwakaita nyeredzi dzokumusoro-soro!
“[But consider this, Job]: God lives [RHQ] high up in the heavens. From there he [RHQ] looks down on the highest stars.
13 Asi imi munoti, ‘Mwari anoziveiko? Ko, anotonga murima rakadai here?
So why do you say, ‘What does God know [about what we are doing]? [He is hidden from us by] dark clouds, so ([how] can he judge us?/he certainly cannot judge us.) [RHQ]’
14 Makore matema anomufukidza, saka haationi paanofamba-famba padenderedzwa ramatenga.’
[Do you think that] while he walks on the dome that covers the sky, there are thick clouds around him, with the result that he cannot see [what we do]?
15 Ko, iwe ucharambira munzira yakare iya yakatsikwa navanhu vakaipa here?
Will you continue to conduct your life the old way that evil people have done [for many years]?
16 Ivo vakabvutwa nguva yavo isati yasvika, hwaro hwavo hwakakukurwa namafashamu.
They suddenly died while they were still young; they disappeared [like everything disappears when there is] a flood [MET].
17 Vakati kuna Mwari, ‘Tisiyei takadaro! Wamasimba Ose angaiteiko kwatiri?’
They kept saying to God, ‘Do not bother us,’ and they also said [defiantly], ‘Almighty [God] can do nothing [RHQ] to [harm] us!’
18 Sezvo ari iye akazadza dzimba dzavo nezvinhu zvakanaka, ndinomira kure namano avakaipa.
But it was God who filled their houses with good things, so I cannot at all understand why wicked people think like they do.
19 “Vakarurama vanoona kuparadzwa kwavo vagofara, vasina mhaka vanovaseka vachiti,
“But when God punishes wicked people, and righteous people see that, they are glad, and they laugh, ridiculing the wicked people.
20 ‘Zvirokwazvo vadzivisi vedu vaparadzwa, uye moto unopedza pfuma yavo.’
They say, ‘Now our enemies have been destroyed, and all [their possessions] that were left have been burned in a fire.’
21 “Zviise pasi paMwari ugova norugare naye, nenzira iyi kubudirira kuchasvika kwauri.
“So, [Job, ] be reconciled to God and make peace with him; if you do that, good things will happen to you.
22 Gamuchira kurayira kunobva mumuromo make uye uchengete mashoko ake mumwoyo.
Allow him to teach you, and keep thinking about what he has told you.
23 Kana ukadzokera kuna Wamasimba Ose, uchadzoredzerwa: Kana ukabvisa zvakaipa uchizviisa kure netende rako,
If you humble yourself and return to God, if you stop doing all the evil things that you have been doing in your house,
24 uye ukaisa goridhe rako paguruva, iro goridhe rako rokuOfiri kumatombo okunzizi,
if you throw away your gold, even the fine gold from the dry stream beds in Ophir [land],
25 ipapo Wamasimba Ose achava goridhe rako, iyo sirivha yako yakanyatsosanangurwa.
and if you allow Almighty [God] to be [as precious to you as] your gold and your silver [have been],
26 Zvirokwazvo ipapo uchawana mufaro muna Wamasimba Ose, uye uchasimudzira chiso chako kuna Mwari.
you will be happy because of your close relationship with God, and you will be able to approach him [IDM] [confidently].
27 Uchanyengetera kwaari, uye achakunzwa, uye iwe uchazadzisa zvawakapika.
You will pray to him, and he will do what you request him to do; you will do the things that you promised him that you would do.
28 Zvaunotaura sechirevo zvichaitika, uye chiedza chichavhenekera panzira dzako.
Everything that you decide to do will be successful; [it] will [be as though] a light [is] shining on the road in front of you.
29 Vanhu pavanodzikiswa iwe ukati, ‘Vasimudzei!’ ipapo vakaderedzwa vachaponeswa.
God humbles those who are proud, but he saves those who are downcast/discouraged.
30 Achadzikinura kunyange uyo ane mhosva, acharwirwa kubudikidza nokuchena kwamaoko ako.”
God rescues those who (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), so he will rescue you if you (start doing things that are right/are not guilty [IDM] of doing things that are wrong).”
