1Eriku n’ayongera okwogera nti,
2“Olowooza kiba kituufu ggwe okugamba nti, Katonda ananziggyako omusango.
Oyogera nti, obutuukirivu bwange businga obwa Katonda.
335:3 Yob 9:29-31; 34:9Ate obuuza nti, ‘Nganyulwa ntya?’
Kirungi ki kye nfuna mu kwonoona kwange?
4“Nandyagadde okukuddamu
ne mikwano gyo egyo gy’oli nagyo.
535:5 a Lub 15:5 b Yob 22:12Tunula eri eggulu olabe;
tunuulira ebire, ebiri waggulu ennyo okukusinga.
635:6 Nge 8:36Singa oyonoona ekyo kimukwatako kitya?
Ebyonoono byo bwe byeyongera, ekyo kimukolako ki?
735:7 a Bar 11:35 b Nge 9:12 c Yob 22:2-3; Luk 17:10Bw’oba omutuukirivu, kiki ky’oba omuwadde,
oba kiki ky’aba afunye okuva mu ngalo zo?
8Okwonoona kwo kukosa muntu nga ggwe,
era n’obutuukirivu bwo bukwata ku baana b’abantu.
935:9 a Kuv 2:23 b Yob 12:19Abantu bakaaba olw’okunyigirizibwa okw’amaanyi,
balaajaanira ab’omukono ogw’amaanyi.
1035:10 a Yob 27:10; Is 51:13 b Zab 42:8; 149:5; Bik 16:25Naye tewali n’omu agamba nti, Aluwa Mukama Omutonzi wange
atuwa ennyimba ekiro,
1135:11 Zab 94:12atuyigiriza ebingi okusinga ensolo ez’omu nsiko,
era n’atufuula bagezi okusinga ebinyonyi eby’omu nsiko?
1235:12 Nge 1:28Newaakubadde nga bakaaba, tayinza kuwulira
n’addamu kukaaba kw’abasajja ab’amalala abakozi b’ebibi.
1335:13 Yob 27:9; Nge 15:29; Is 1:15; Yer 11:11Ddala ddala Katonda tawuliriza kukoowoola kwabwe okwo okutaliimu;
Ayinzabyonna takufaako.
1435:14 a Yob 9:11 b Zab 37:6Kale kiba kitya
bw’ogamba nti tomulaba,
era nti, Omusango gwo guli mu maaso ge
era oteekwa okumulindirira;
15oba nti, ne bw’asunguwala tabonereza
era tafaayo nnyo ku butali butuukirivu.
1635:16 Yob 34:35, 37Kale nno Yobu ayasamya akamwa ke okwogera ebitaliimu;
obutamanya bumwogeza ebigambo olukunkumuli.”
1Then Elihu said:
2“Do you think this is just?
You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’
3Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,35:3 Or you
and what do I gain by not sinning?’
4“I would like to reply to you
and to your friends with you.
5Look up at the heavens and see;
gaze at the clouds so high above you.
6If you sin, how does that affect him?
If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
7If you are righteous, what do you give to him,
or what does he receive from your hand?
8Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself,
and your righteousness only other people.
9“People cry out under a load of oppression;
they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
who gives songs in the night,
11who teaches us more than he teaches35:10,11 Or night, / 11 who teaches us by the beasts of the earth
and makes us wiser than35:11 Or us wise by the birds in the sky?’
12He does not answer when people cry out
because of the arrogance of the wicked.
13Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea;
the Almighty pays no attention to it.
14How much less, then, will he listen
when you say that you do not see him,
that your case is before him
and you must wait for him,
15and further, that his anger never punishes
and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.35:15 Symmachus, Theodotion and Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
16So Job opens his mouth with empty talk;
without knowledge he multiplies words.”