Ayubu 19
1 Ndipo Ayubu akajibu na kusema,
Then Job answered and said,
2 lini mtanifanya mimi kuteseka na kunivunja vunja mimi vipande vipnde kwa maneno?
How long will all of you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3 Mara kumi hivi mmenishutumu mimi; ninyi hamuoni aibu kwamba mmenitendea mimi kwa ukatili.
These ten times have all of you reproached me: all of you are not ashamed that all of you make yourselves strange to me.
4 Kama ni dhahiri kweli mimi nimekosa, makosa yangu hubaki kuwa wajibu wangu.
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remains with myself.
5 Kama ni dhahiri ninyi mtajiinua juu yangu mimi na kuutumia uvumilivu wangu kunipinga mimi,
If indeed all of you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
6 kisha ninyi mnapaswa kutambua kwamba Mungu amefanya mabaya kwangu mimi na amenikamata mimi katika mtego wake yeye.
Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.
7 Tazama, Mimi ninalia kwa sauti, “dhuluma!” lakini sipati jibu. Mimi ninaita kwa ajili ya msaada, lakini hakuna haki.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
8 Yeye ameiwekea ukuta njia yangu, ili kwamba mimi nisiweze kupita, na yeye ameweka giza katika njia yangu.
He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
9 Yeye ameniondoa Mimi kutoka katika utukufu wangu, na ameichukua taji kutoka kwenye kichwa changu mimi.
He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
10 Yeye amenivunjavunja mimi chini kwa kila upande, na Mimi nimetoweka; yeye amelikokota juu tumaini langu kama mti.
He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope has he removed like a tree.
11 Yeye pia ameiongeza ghadhabu yake dhidi yangu mimi; yeye ananihesabu mimi kama mmoja wa adui zake.
He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me unto him as one of his enemies.
12 Majeshi yake huja juu pamoja; wao wananikosesha tumaini kwa kuniteka nyara kwa kundi kubwa kupigana na mimi wakizunguka hema yangu.
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and camp round about my tabernacle.
13 Yeye amewaweka ndugu zangu mbali kutoka kwangu mimi; watu wangu wa karibu wote wamejitenga kutoka kwangu mimi.
He has put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily cut off from me.
14 Vizazi vyangu vimeniangusha mimi; rafiki zangu wa karibu wamenisahamu mimi.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 Wale ambao mwanzoni walikaa kama wageni ndani ya nyumba yangu na watumishi wangu wa kike, hunihesabu mimi kama mgeni. Mimi nimekuwa mgeni katika macho yao.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an foreigner in their sight.
16 Mimi ninamwita mtumishi wangu, lakini yeye hanipi jibu japokuwa Mimi nimemsihi yeye kwa midomo yangu.
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I implored him with my mouth.
17 Pumzi yangu mimi ni chukizo kwa mke wangu; Hata mimi ninachukiwa na wale ambao walizaliwa kutoka katika tumbo la mama yangu mimi.
My breath is strange to my wife, though I implored for the children's sake of mine own body.
18 Hata watoto wachanga wananichukia mimi; ikiwa Mimi nitainuka kuzungumza, wao huzungumza dhidi yangu mimi.
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.
19 Rafiki zangu wote ninaowazoea wananichukia sana mimi; wale ambao Mimi ninawapenda wamegeuka kinyume na mimi.
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
20 Mifupa yangu inashikamana kwenye ngozi yangu na kwenye mwili wangu; Mimi ninaishi tu kwa ngozi ya meno yangu.
My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 Iweni na huruma juu yangu mimi, muwe na huruma juu yangu mimi, rafiki zangu, kwa maana mkono wa Mungu umenigusa mimi.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O all of you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
22 Kwa nini mnanitesa mimi kama ninyi mlikuwa Mungu? kwa nini hamjatosheka bado kwa kula mwili wangu?
Why do all of you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Laiti, hayo maneno yangu yangekuwa yameandikwa chini! Laiti, hayo yangekuwa yameandikwa katika kitabu!
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24 Laiti, kwa kalamu ya chuma na risasi hayo yangekuwa yamechorwa katika mwamba siku zote!
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25 Lakini kama ilivyo kwangu mimi, Mimi ninafahamu kwamba mkombozi wangu anaishi, na kwamba hata mwisho atasimama katika nchi;
For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
26 baada ya ngozi yangu, hivyo ndivyo, mwili huu, unaharibiwa, ndipo katika mwili wangu mimi Nitamwona Mungu.
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27 Mimi nitamwona yeye kwa macho yangu mwenyewe-Mimi, na siyo mtu mwingine. Moyo wangu hushindwa ndani yangu mimi.
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
28 Kama mnatasema, 'Kwa jinsi gani tutamtesa yeye? Mzizi wa mahangaiko yake unakaa katika yeye;
But all of you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
29 ndipo uwe umeogopeshwa kwa ule upanga, kwa sababu ghadhabu huleta hukumu ya upanga, hivyo kwamba wewe uweze kutambua kuna hukumu.”
Be all of you afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that all of you may know there is a judgment.
