Job
1-2 I still rebel and complain against God;
I cannot keep from groaning.
3 How I wish I knew where to find him,
and knew how to go where he is.
4 I would state my case before him
and present all the arguments in my favor.
5 I want to know what he would say
and how he would answer me.
6 Would God use all his strength against me?
No, he would listen as I spoke.
7 I am honest; I could reason with God;
he would declare me innocent once and for all.
8 I have searched in the East, but God is not there;
I have not found him when I searched in the West.
9 God has been at work in the North and the South,
but still I have not seen him.
10 Yet God knows every step I take;
if he tests me, he will find me pure.
11 I follow faithfully the road he chooses,
and never wander to either side.
12 I always do what God commands;
I follow his will, not my own desires.
13 He never changes. No one can oppose him
or stop him from doing what he wants to do.
14 He will fulfill what he has planned for me;
that plan is just one of the many he has;
15 I tremble with fear before him.
16-17 Almighty God has destroyed my courage.
It is God, not the dark, that makes me afraid—
even though the darkness has made me blind.
Job ma ziri Elifas
1 Job wa zira a tja:
2 “Ami inga me pirukire nu
me unaunine Ndjambi;
hi nokusora okutjaera
omatjemeno wandje.
3 Ami andakuzu me tjiwa
kutja me kemuvaza pi,
nokuyenda eye ke ri,
4 etje katwa otjiposa tjandje
komurungu we,
ne raisa omapu wandje aehe ku ye.
5 Ami me vanga okutjiwa
kutja eye ma tja vi,
nokutja me ndji ziri vi.
6 Ndjambi etje ndji rwisa
nomasa we aehe are?
Kako! Eye atja puratena komambo wandje.
7 Ami owami omuṱakame;
netje tya otjiposa tjandje kuna Ndjambi,
neye etje ndji vara omuhinandjo aruhe.
8 “Ami mba kapaha Ndjambi komukuma
wokomuhuka, nungwari eye ke ko.
Tji mbe kemupaha komukuma
wokongurova, hi kemumwine.
9 Ndjambi u ungura komukuma
wokeyuva kokunene
nowokeyuva kokumuho,
nungwari ami hi mu munu.
10 Nungwari eye u tjiwa omukambo
auhe mbu me toora;
neye tje ndji roro,
u ndji vaza omukohoke.
11 Ami mbi kongorera nouṱakame
indji ondjira ndje ndji hongorera,
nu mba ṱiza ondjira ndji
nokuhinokuivaiva.
12 Ami aruhe mbi tjita imbi
Ndjambi mbi ma rakiza,
nu mbi kongorera ombango ye,
nungwari kanḓero yandje omuini.
13 “Eye ka runduruka.
Kape na ngu me mu pirukire,
poo ngu me mu tjaere
okutjita imbi mbi ma vanga.
14 Eye ma yenenisa imbi
mbya tyera okundjitjitira,
nu ondyero otja indji iimwe
yainḓa ozengi nḓe na zo.
15 Ami mbi kara nomburuma
komurungu we,
nu tji me ripura na ihi, me mu tira.
16 Ndjambi Omunamasaaehe wa
mumaparisa omutima wandje;
Omunamasaaehe ongwe ndji urumisa,
17 kanḓorera, ndje ndji tjita kutja mbi tire,
nandarire kutja omuzororema
mau kutjire ombunikiro ye ku ami.
