Ayubu 35
1 Ndipo Elihu akasema:
Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
2 “Je, unadhani hili ni haki? Wewe unasema, ‘Nina haki mbele za Mungu.’
Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?
3 Bado unamuuliza, ‘Ni faida gani nimepata, na imenifaidi nini kwa kutokutenda dhambi?’
For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4 “Ningependa nikujibu wewe pamoja na marafiki zako walio pamoja nawe.
I will answer you, and your companions with you.
5 Tazama juu mbinguni ukaone; yaangalie mawingu yaliyo juu sana juu yako.
Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
6 Je, ukitenda dhambi, inamdhuruje Mungu? Kama dhambi zako zikiwa nyingi, hilo linamfanyia nini Mungu?
If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?
7 Kama wewe ni mwadilifu, unampa nini, au yeye anapokea nini mkononi kwako?
If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
8 Uovu wako unamdhuru tu mtu mwingine kama wewe, nayo haki yako inawafaa wanadamu tu.
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
9 “Wanadamu hulia kwa kulemewa na mateso; huomba msaada kutoka mkono wenye nguvu.
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 Lakini hakuna asemaye, ‘Yuko wapi Mungu Muumba wangu, yeye anifanyaye niimbe usiku,
But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
11 yeye atufundishaye sisi zaidi kuliko wanyama wa dunia, na kutufanya wenye hekima kuliko ndege wa angani?’
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12 Yeye hajibu wakati watu waliapo kwa sababu ya kiburi cha watu waovu.
There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Naam, Mungu hasikilizi maombi yao ya ubatili; Mwenyezi hayazingatii.
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 Si zaidi sana kwamba hatakusikiliza wewe usemapo humwoni, tena ya kwamba shauri lako liko mbele zake na wewe lazima umngojee,
Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.
15 pia zaidi, kwamba hasira yake kamwe haiadhibu wala haangalii uovu hata kidogo?
But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
16 Hivyo Ayubu hufumbua kinywa chake kwa maneno yasiyo na maana; anaongea maneno mengi bila maarifa.”
Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
