Job's Reply to Bildad
You Have Really Been Helpful
1 Job said:
2 You have really been helpful
to someone weak and weary.
3 You have given great advice
and wonderful wisdom
to someone truly in need.
4 How can anyone possibly speak
with such understanding?
5 Remember the terrible trembling
of those in the world of the dead
below the mighty ocean.
6 Nothing in that land
of death and destruction
is hidden from God,
7 who hung the northern sky
and suspended the earth
on empty space.
8 God stores water in clouds,
but they don't burst,
9 and he wraps them around
the face of the moon.
10 On the surface of the ocean,
God has drawn a boundary line
between light and darkness.
11 And columns supporting the sky
tremble at his command.
12 By his power and wisdom,
God conquered the force
of the mighty ocean.
13 The heavens became bright
when he breathed,
and the escaping sea monster
died at his hands.
14 These things are merely a whisper
of God's power at work.
How little we would understand
if this whisper
ever turned into thunder!
1 Jobi ge ǁkhawa ge ǃeream:
2 “Mâtits kha ǀgaio khoe-e ge hui!
Mâtits kha ǁôab â-i ǃnâ ǀgai-e ūhâ tama-e ge hui!
3 Gā-aisi-e ūhâ tama khoe-e mâtits ǀapemā
tsî harase sa ǂansa ge ǀgoragu-ū?
4 Tari-e ge ǃhoahui tsi
tsî tari-e nē ǀgaus ai ge ǃhoa kai tsi?”
[Bildadi]
5 “ǁŌ hân ra ǀkhū,
ǁnān ǁgamgu ǃnaka
tsî ǁîgu ǃnâ ǁan hân hoana.
6 ǁŌhân Hâǃkhaib ge Elob aiǃâ a ǀōǀkhā
tsî ǀkhaiǀkhāse ǁîb aiǃâ ǁgoe.
7 Elob ge ǃāǂuisaba ǃū-aisa ǃkhais ǂamai ra khoraǂui
tsî xū-i ǀkhaipa, ǃhūbaiba ra ǂgāmâi.
8 Elob ge ǁîb ǃkhae ǃâude ǁgamgu ǀkha ra ǀoaǀoaba,
xaweb ge ǁgammi ǃgomma ǃâude doa kai tama hâ.
9 ǁÎb ge trons âba ra ǃgū-ai,
ǃkhae ǃâudi ǀkhab ge ǁîsa ra ǃgūǂgan.
10 ǁGamgu ra ǀhao ǃkhaisab ge ǃgupuse ra saomâi,
ǃnâb tsî ǃkhaenab tsîkha ra ǀgora ǃkhais ai.
11 ǀHommi di ǂgurihaigu ge ra ǂgubi
tsî ǁîb di ǃkhâikhoms xa ra burugâ kaihe.
12 ǁÎb di ǁkhāsib ǀkhab ge huriba ra ǁgoea-ai kai;
ǁîb gā-aisib ǀkhab ge huriǀguruba ra hîkākā.
13 ǁÎb di ǂoab ǀkhab ge ǀhomma ra ǃgomǃanuǃanu;
ǁîb ǁôab ǀkhab ge ǃkhoeni ra ǀaoba ra ǃgam.
14 Nēn ge ǂkhari ǃâron ǁîb ǀgaib din ǀguina,
tupus ǁkhāsib dis ǀguis ge!
Tari-e ǁîb ǁkhāsib di ǃguruba nî ǁnâuǃā?”
