1 Elihu spake moreover, and said, 2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s? 3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and , What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? 4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. 5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou. 6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? 7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. 10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; 11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven? 12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men. 13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him. 15 But now, because it is not so , he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: 16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Ehungi oritjatatu ra Elihu
1 Elihu wa hungira komurungu a tja:
2 “Kasemba, Job, okutja nao aruhe
kutja oove omuhinandjo
komurungu wa Ndjambi,
3 poo okupura Ndjambi nai:
‘Ourunde wandje mau ṱunu vi kove?
Ami mba munina po tjike
mokuhinakutura ondjo?’
4 Ami me ku ziri, nga komapanga woye wina.
5 “Tara kevaverwa! Muna ovikamba tji
vi ri kokure kombanda yoye!
6 Ove tji wa tjiti ourunde,
oko kaku hihamisa Ndjambi,
nu ozondataiziro zoye tjiza takavara,
maku ṱunu ku ye are?
7 Okuhinokutura ondjo kwoye ku yandja
ombatero ya tjike ku Ndjambi?
Kape notjiṋa Ndjambi tji ma hepa kove!
8 Kako! Ourunde woye u hihamisa
omundu tjimuna ove nao,
nu noho ouwa mbu mo tjiti
mau vatere ovandu varwe.
9 “Ovandu tji mave ṋiṋikiziwa
i ovanauvara, owo ve tjema,
ve ura ku umwe kutja e ve vatere.
10 Nungwari owo kave paha Ndjambi,
Omuute wawo,
ngu ve pa omaundjiro mozoiri zonḓorera.
11 Owo kave kotoka ku Ndjambi
ngwe tu tjita ozonongo,
ozonongo tjinene povipuka nozonḓera.
12 Owo ve kwa ombatero,
nungwari Ndjambi ka ziri,
owo tjinga averi overitongamise novanauvi.
13 Okurira kwawo omungandjo uriri,
tjinga Ndjambi Omunamasaaehe
ehi nokuvezuva nokuvemuna.
14 “Job, ove u tja ko munu Ndjambi,
nungwari u undja ku ye nomuretima,
notjiposa tjoye tji ri komurungu we.
15 Ove mo tjangovasi Ndjambi
ke nokusora okuvera,
nokutja eye ke na ko na tja nouvi.
16 Omungandjo kove okuhungira
komurungu omambo
omengi ngu mo hungire,
motjimbe tjokutja ko nokutjiwa
kutja mo hungire tjike.”
