Job 35
1 Elihu sì wí pe:
Moreover Elihu answered,
2 “Ìwọ rò pé èyí ha tọ́, tí ìwọ wí pé, òdodo mi ni èyí níwájú Ọlọ́run?
“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’
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.
that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
4 “Èmi ó dá ọ lóhùn àti àwọn ẹgbẹ́ rẹ pẹ̀lú rẹ.
I will answer you, and your companions with you.
5 Síjú wo ọ̀run; kí o rí i, kí ó sì bojú wo àwọsánmọ̀ tí ó ga jù ọ́ lọ.
Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than 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 have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, 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 may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
9 “Nípa ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀ ìninilára, wọ́n mú ni kígbe; wọ́n kígbe nípa apá àwọn alágbára.
“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of 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 says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives 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 animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
12 Nígbà náà ni wọ́n ń ké ṣùgbọ́n Ọlọ́run kò dáhùn nítorí ìgbéraga ènìyàn búburú.
There they cry, but no one answers, 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 will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard 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 when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
15 Ṣùgbọ́n nísinsin yìí nítorí tí ìbínú rẹ̀ kò tí fìyà jẹ ni, òun kò ni ka ìwà búburú si?
But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance,
16 Nítorí náà ní Jobu ṣe ya ẹnu rẹ̀ lásán ó sọ ọ̀rọ̀ di púpọ̀ láìsí ìmọ̀.”
therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
