Ayubu 3
1 Baada ya hayo, Ayubu akafunua kinywa chake na kuilani siku aliyozaliwa.
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 Akasema,
And Job spoke, and said,
3 “Na ipotelee mbali siku niliyozaliwa mimi, usiku uliosema, 'Mimba ya mtoto wa kiume imetungwa.'
Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4 Siku hiyo na iwe giza; Mungu toka juu asiifikilie, wala mwanga usiiangazie.
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Ishikwe na giza na giza la mauti liwe lake. Wingu na likae juu yake; kila kitu kiifanyacho siku kuwa giza kweli na kiitishe.
Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 Usiku huo, na ukamatwe na giza tororo. Usihesabiwe miongoni mwa siku za mwaka; na usiwekwe katika hesabu ya miezi.
As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Tazama, usiku huo na uwe tasa; na sauti ya shangwe isiwe ndani yake.
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Na wailani siku hiyo, hao wafahamuo namna ya kumuamsha lewiathani.
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9 Nyota za mapambazuko yake zitiwe giza. Siku hiyo iutafute mwanga, lakini isiupate; wala makope ya mapambazuko isiyaone,
Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
10 kwasababu haikuifunga milango ya tumbo la mama yangu, na kwasababu haikunifichia taabu machoni pangu.
Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
11 Kwanini si-kufa wakati lipotokeza katika tumbo la uzazi? Kwanini sikuitoa roho yangu hapo mama aliponizaa?
Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] expire at the time of my birth?
12 kwanini magoti yake yalinipokea? Kwanini maziwa yake yanipokee hata ninyonye?
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?
13 Kwa sasa ningelikuwa nimelala chini kimya kimya. Ningelala usingizi na kupata pumziko
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14 pamoja na wafalme na washauri wa dunia, ambao walijijengea makaburi ambayo sasa ni magofu.
With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;
15 Au Ningelikuwa nimelala pamoja na wakuu wenye dhahabu, waliozijaza nyumba zao fedha.
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16 Au pengine ningekuwa sijazaliwa, kama watoto wachanga wasio uona mwanga kabisa.
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
17 Huko waovu huacha kusumbua; huko waliochoka hupumzika.
There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
18 Huko wafungwa kwa pamoja hupata amani; hawaisikii sauti ya msimamizi wa watumwa.
[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19 Wote wadogo na watu maarufu wako huko; mtumishi yuko huru kwa bwana wake huko.
The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.
20 Kwa nini yeye aliye mashakani kupewa mwanga? Kwa nini hao wenye uchungu moyoni kupewa uhai,
Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter [in] soul;
21 ambao hutamani mauti lakini hawapati; ambao huyachimbulia mauti zaidi ya kutafuta hazina iliyofichika?
Who long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22 Kwa nini kupewa mwanga ambao hushangilia mno na kufurahi walionapo kaburi?
Who rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 Kwanini kupewa mwanga mtu ambaye njia zake zimefichika, mtu ambaye Mungu amemzungushia uwa?
[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24 Kwa kuwa kushusha kwangu pumzi kwatokea badala ya kula; kuugua kwangu kumemiminika kama maji.
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
25 Maana jambo lile niliogopalo limenipata; nalo linitialo hofu limenijilia.
For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
26 Mimi sioni raha, sipati utulivu, na sipati pumziko; badala yake huja taabu.”
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
