1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief .
6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. 11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. 12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. 13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. 16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. 18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. 19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. 20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God. 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! 22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
1 Ob ge Joba ge ǃeream:
2 “Nēti ī ǂgui xūǃnôana ta ge ǀnai ge ǁnâu;
sa ǁgai ǁkhaeǂgao-aogo hoago!
3 Sago ǀkhaiǃnâ mîde ǀam-e ūhâ tama?
Tamas ka io, tare-e ǀuni mîsa ra mî kai go?
4 Tita tsîn ge sago khami ga ǃhoa hâ,
ti ǁharora ǃnâ go ga mâ hâo.
Tita tsîn ge sago ǃoagu mîde ǀhaoǀhao ǁkhā
tsî sago ǂama ǃnabindana ǁkhā.
5 Ti ams di mîdi ǀkha ta ge a ǀgaiǀgai go ǁkhā;
ti amǁgaukha ǁkhaeǂgaob ge
sago tsûba ǁgoea-ai kai ǁkhā.
6 “ǃHoa ta ka, xaweb ge ti tsûba ǁgoea-ai tama
tsî ǃnō ta ka, os tsînab ge ti tsûba bē tide.
7 Amaseb ge Eloba nēsi go dītoa te;
sats ge ti omarisa go hîkākā.
8 ǂNâkaro kai tets ge hâ; ǁnās ra ti ǃoagu ǀhûǀgui.
Ti ǂkhō tsî khō īsib ge ti ǃoagu ra ǃkhō-am.
9 “Elob ge ǁaib âb ǃnâ ǀkhauǃā te tsî ǃhuisa te;
tita ǃoagub ra ǁaninǁgû,
ti khākhoeb aseb ra ǀā mûra âb ǀkha kōǃan te.
10 Khoen ra tita ǃaroma amǃnâgu âna ǁkhowa-am;
ǁîn ge mîǁgaiǁgai rase xōs ai ǁapu te tsî ge xāǂgā te.
11 Elob ge eloxoresan ǃomgu ǃnâ māǁnâ te
tsî ǂkhabadī-aon ǃnâ ge aoǂgā te.
12 ǂKhîb ǃnâ ta ge hâ i,
xaweb ge Eloba ti ǂkhîba ge ǂhani;
ǁîb ge ǃaos ai ǃkhō te tsî ge dāǃgâ te.
ǁÎb ge tita ge kōǂui,
13 ǁîb ǂāgu soros âtasa ra ǃkhāǃganu,
tsî ǃnaira âta ǃkhāǃkharuǃnâ
tsîs ge tsabas âtasa ǃhūb ai ra ǁhōxūsen.
14 ǁÎb ge mâ ǃnās hoasa ra ǁnāǂam,
toroǃkham-ao-i khamib ge ra ǃkhoeǂnôa te.
15 “Tsaura ǃkhaib ǀkha ǂomsa ǃoasaraba ta ge ana hâ,
tsî ti ǀgaiba tsarab ǃnâ ge māǁnâ.
16 Āb xa ra ge ti mûra a ǀapa
tsî ti mûra ǂnamipeb ge a ǃkhae.
17 Xawe ti ǃomkha ge ǂkhaba i xare-e dī tama,
tsî ti ǀgores ge a ǃanu.
18 “ǃHūbaitse, tā ti ǀaoba ǃgū-ai;
ab ti ǂgaidomma sâoǃnâ!
19 Amase, nēsis tsîna i ge ti ǀhûǀguitimî-ao-e ǀhommi ǃnâ hâ,
ti ǂnoaba-aob ge ǀgapise hâ.
20 Ti ǀhōsagu ge ra ǃhō te;
ti mûra ǁgamron ge Elob kōse ra sī.
21 ǀGui khoe-i ga Elob tawa ti ǁhōba ǀkhomaba te,
khoe-i ra ǁî-i ǀgūkhoe-e dība khami.
22 Ti ûikurigu a ǀoro
tsî oaǀkhī ta tide daoba ta ra ǃgû xui-ao.
