Ayubu 16
1 Kisha Ayubu akajibu:
Then Job answered and said,
2 “Nimepata kusikia mambo mengi kama haya, nanyi nyote ni wafariji wenye kutaabisha!
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all.
3 Je, maneno yenu mengi yasiyo na maana hayana mwisho? Mna nini hata mwendelee kushindana kwa maneno?
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4 Mimi pia ningeweza kuzungumza kama ninyi, kama mngekuwa katika hali yangu; ningeweza kutoa hotuba nzuri dhidi yenu, na kuwatikisia ninyi kichwa changu.
I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.
5 Lakini kinywa changu kingewatia moyo; faraja kutoka midomoni mwangu, ingewaletea nafuu.
[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of my lips should assuage [your grief].
6 “Lakini kama nikisema, maumivu yangu bado hayatulizwi; nami kama nikijizuia, wala hayaondoki.
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased?
7 Ee Mungu, hakika umenichakaza; umewaangamiza kabisa watu wa nyumbani mwangu wote.
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8 Umenikunjakunja, nalo limekuwa ushahidi; nako kukonda kwangu kumeongezeka sana na kushuhudia dhidi yangu.
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
9 Mungu amenishambulia na kunirarua katika hasira yake, na kunisagia meno yake; adui yangu hunikazia macho yake makali.
He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
10 Watu wamenifumbulia vinywa vyao kunidhihaki; hunipiga shavuni mwangu kwa dharau, na kuungana pamoja dhidi yangu.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves against me.
11 Mungu amenigeuzia kwa watu wabaya, na kunitupa katika makucha ya waovu.
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
12 Mambo yote yalikuwa mazuri, lakini alinivunjavunja; amenikamata shingo na kuniponda. Amenifanya mimi kuwa shabaha yake;
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
13 wapiga upinde wake wananizunguka. Bila huruma, huchoma figo zangu, na kuimwaga nyongo yangu juu ya nchi.
His archers encompass me; he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14 Huniponda tena na tena; hunishambulia kama shujaa wa vita.
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
15 “Nimejishonea nguo ya gunia juu ya mwili wangu nami nimekizika kipaji cha uso wangu kwenye vumbi.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
16 Uso wangu umekuwa mwekundu kwa kulia, macho yangu yamepigwa na giza kuu.
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [are] the shades of death;
17 Hata hivyo mikono yangu haijafanya jeuri, na maombi yangu ni safi.
Not for [any] injustice in my hands: also my prayer [is] pure.
18 “Ee nchi, usiifunike damu yangu, nacho kilio changu kisinyamazishwe kamwe.
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
19 Hata sasa shahidi wangu yuko mbinguni; wakili wangu yuko juu.
Also now, behold, my witness [is] in heaven, and my record [is] on high.
20 Mwombezi wangu ni rafiki yangu macho yangu yamwagapo machozi kwa Mungu;
My friends scorn me: [but] my eye poureth out [tears] to God.
21 kwa niaba ya mtu anamsihi Mungu kama mtu anavyosihi kwa ajili ya rafiki yake.
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbor!
22 “Ni miaka michache tu itapita kabla sijaenda safari ambayo sitarudi.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
