Job ta yamukula
1 Job okwa yamukula ngeyi.
2 Eeno, osho lela, one aantu,
nuunongo otau ka sa pamwe nane!
3 Ngame wo ondi na oondunge nde mu fa.
Kandi shi oshikengelela showala.
Olye inaa tseya iinima mbino ayihe?
4 Onda yolwa kookuume kandje,
nando ngame ohandi indile Kalunga e ta yamukula.
Onda yolwa, nando ngame omuyuuki nomukeenashipo!
5 Aalinawa otaa dhini oshiponga,
omupya tagu adha ngoka ta gwile po.
6 Aafuthi oye li mombili,
naambo haa geyitha Kalunga, oye li nawa;
oomboka haa humbata iikalunga miikaha yawo.
7 Pula iinamwenyo, oyo notayi ku nongeke,
nenge u pule oondhila dhokegulu.
8 Popya niishitwa yokevi,
oyo notayi ku lombwele,
nenge oohi dhomefuta otadhi ku yelithile.
9 Ayihe mbika oya tseya kutya Omuwa oye e yi shita.
10 Omwenyo gwiishitwa ayihe ogu li miikaha ye,
osho wo omufudho gwaantu ayehe.
11 Ngaashi okutsi ku hole okuuva,
osho wo elaka li hole okulola iikulya.
12 Oondunge otadhi monika mokati kaakokele;
okukala nomwenyo omule otaku ku etele owino.
13 Kalunga oye oluthithiya lwoondunge noonkondo,
oku na uunongo nomayele.
14 Kalunga ngele ta kumuna po,
olye ta vulu okutungulula?
Ngele ta tula omuntu mondjedhililo,
olye te mu mangulula mo?
15 Kalunga ngele ta kankeke omeya, otaku ya oshikukuta,
nongele te ga etha, otaga kungulula evi.
16 Kalunga oku na oonkondo noye omusindani aluhe;
nakupukithwa nomupukithi ayehe oye li miikaha ye.
17 Aagandjimayele ote ya fala mokusindika,
naatokolihapu ote ya goyapaleke.
18 Aakwaniilwa ote ya kutha oonkondo yaa mange we aantu,
note ya ningi oonkwatwa.
19 Aayambi ya luwa iinima yawo ote ya fala kiilongo,
nota shundula aanankondo.
20 Ota mweneke aayinekelwa
nota hulitha po omayele gaakuluntu.
21 Aanenentu ote ya undulile mesithahoni,
noonkondo dhaapangeli ote dhi hulitha po.
22 Ota holola puuyelele iinima yomomilema,
nomilema ote dhi eta muuyelele.
23 Oti indjipaleke iigwana e te yi hanagula po;
ote yi halakanitha noku yi pongeka.
24 Aapangeli yomuuyuni ote ya kutha omayele;
ote ya pukithile mombuga mwaa na omapola.
25 Otaa pampadhala momilema mwaa na uuyelele,
note ya telaganitha ya fa oonkolwi.
Job
1-2 Yes, you are the voice of the people.
When you die, wisdom will die with you.
3 But I have as much sense as you have;
I am in no way inferior to you;
everyone knows all that you have said.
4 Even my friends laugh at me now;
they laugh, although I am righteous and blameless;
but there was a time when God answered my prayers.
5 You have no troubles, and yet you make fun of me;
you hit someone who is about to fall.
6 But thieves and godless people live in peace,
though their only god is their own strength.
7 Even birds and animals have much they could teach you;
8 ask the creatures of earth and sea for their wisdom.
9 All of them know that the Lord's hand made them.
10 It is God who directs the lives of his creatures;
everyone's life is in his power.
11 But just as your tongue enjoys tasting food,
your ears enjoy hearing words.
12-13 Old people have wisdom,
but God has wisdom and power.
Old people have insight;
God has insight and power to act.
14 When God tears down, who can rebuild,
and who can free those God imprisons?
15 Drought comes when God withholds rain;
floods come when he turns water loose.
16 God is strong and always victorious;
both deceived and deceiver are in his power.
17 He takes away the wisdom of rulers
and makes leaders act like fools.
18 He dethrones kings and makes them prisoners;
19 he humbles priests and men of power.
20 He silences those who are trusted,
and takes the wisdom of old people away.
21 He disgraces those in power
and puts an end to the strength of rulers.
22 He sends light to places dark as death.
23 He makes nations strong and great,
but then he defeats and destroys them.
24 He makes their leaders foolish
and lets them wander confused and lost;
25 they grope in the dark and stagger like drunkards.
