Job 35
1 Elihu sì wí pe:
And Elihu went on to say:
2 “Ìwọ rò pé èyí ha tọ́, tí ìwọ wí pé, òdodo mi ni èyí níwájú Ọlọ́run?
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
3 Nítorí tí ìwọ wí pé èrè kí ní yóò jásí fún ọ, tàbí èrè kí ni èmi yóò fi jẹ́ ju èrè ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ mi lọ.
For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
4 “Èmi ó dá ọ lóhùn àti àwọn ẹgbẹ́ rẹ pẹ̀lú rẹ.
I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
5 Síjú wo ọ̀run; kí o rí i, kí ó sì bojú wo àwọsánmọ̀ tí ó ga jù ọ́ lọ.
Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
6 Bí ìwọ bá dẹ́ṣẹ̀, kí ni ìwọ fi sẹ̀ sí? Tàbí bí ìrékọjá rẹ di púpọ̀, kí ni ìwọ fi èyí nì ṣe sí i?
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
7 Bí ìwọ bá sì ṣe olódodo, kí ni ìwọ fi fún un, tàbí kí ni òun rí gbà láti ọwọ́ rẹ wá?
If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
8 Ìwà búburú rẹ ni fún ènìyàn bí ìwọ; òdodo rẹ sì ni fún ọmọ ènìyàn.
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
9 “Nípa ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀ ìninilára, wọ́n mú ni kígbe; wọ́n kígbe nípa apá àwọn alágbára.
Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
10 Ṣùgbọ́n kò sí ẹni tí ó wí pé, ‘Níbo ni Ọlọ́run Ẹlẹ́dàá mi wà tí ó sì fi orin fún mi ní òru;
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
11 tí òun kọ́ wa ní ẹ̀kọ́ jù àwọn ẹranko ayé lọ, tí ó sì mú wa gbọ́n ju àwọn ẹyẹ ojú ọ̀run lọ?’
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
12 Nígbà náà ni wọ́n ń ké ṣùgbọ́n Ọlọ́run kò dáhùn nítorí ìgbéraga ènìyàn búburú.
There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Nítòótọ́ Ọlọ́run kì yóò gbọ́ ọ̀rọ̀ asán; bẹ́ẹ̀ ní Olódùmarè kì yóò kà á sí.
Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
14 Bí ó tilẹ̀ ṣe pé ìwọ wí pé ìwọ kì í rí i, ọ̀rọ̀ ìdájọ́ ń bẹ níwájú rẹ, ẹni tí ìwọ sì gbọdọ̀ dúró dè.
How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
15 Ṣùgbọ́n nísinsin yìí nítorí tí ìbínú rẹ̀ kò tí fìyà jẹ ni, òun kò ni ka ìwà búburú si?
and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
16 Nítorí náà ní Jobu ṣe ya ẹnu rẹ̀ lásán ó sọ ọ̀rọ̀ di púpọ̀ láìsí ìmọ̀.”
So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
