Erifaazi Ayogera
1Awo Erifaazi Omutemani n’ayanukula ng’agamba nti,
24:2 Yob 32:20“Omuntu bw’anaayogera naawe onoonyiiga?
Naye ani ayinza okusirika obusirisi?
34:3 Is 35:3; Beb 12:12Laba, wayigiriza bangi,
emikono eminafu wagizzaamu amaanyi.
44:4 Is 35:3; Beb 12:12Ebigambo byo byanyweza abaali bagwa,
era ng’ozzaamu amaanyi amaviivi agaali gakankana.
54:5 a Yob 19:21 b Yob 6:14Naye kaakano kikutuuseeko, oweddemu amaanyi;
kikutte ku ggwe n’oggwaawo!
64:6 a Nge 3:26 b Yob 1:1Okutya Katonda wo si bwe bwesige bwo,
n’obwesimbu bwo si ly’essuubi lyo?
74:7 a Yob 36:7 b Yob 8:20; Zab 37:25“Kaakano lowooza; ani ataliiko musango eyali azikiridde?
Oba wa abatuukirivu gye baali bamaliddwawo?
84:8 a Yob 15:35 b Nge 22:8; Kos 10:13; Bag 6:7-8Okusinziira ku kyendabye; abo abateekateeka okukola ebibi era ne basiga ebitali bya butuukirivu,
bakungula bizibu.
94:9 a Yob 15:30; Is 30:33; 2Bs 2:8 b Yob 40:13Bazikirizibwa omukka Katonda gw’assa,
bamalibwawo obusungu bwe.
104:10 Yob 5:15; Zab 58:6Okuwuluguma kw’empologoma, n’eddoboozi ly’empologoma enkambwe,
n’amannyo g’empologoma ento gamenyeka.
114:11 Yob 27:14; Zab 34:10Empologoma ey’amaanyi ezikirira olw’okubulwa omuyiggo,
n’obwana bw’empologoma busaasaana.
124:12 a Yob 26:14 b Yob 33:14“Nategeezebwa ekigambo eky’ekyama,
ne nkitegera okutu.
134:13 Yob 33:15Wakati mu birowoozo n’okwolesebwa kw’ekiro
ng’otulo otungi tukutte omuntu,
144:14 Yer 23:9; Kbk 3:16okutya n’okukankana byankwata ne bireetera amagumba gange okunyegenya.
15Omwoyo gw’ayita mu maaso gange,
obwoya bw’oku mubiri gwange ne buyimirira.
16Ne buyimirira butengerera,
naye saasobola kwetegereza ndabika yaabwo,
n’ekifaananyi kyali mu maaso gange, ne wabaawo akasiriikiriro,
ne ndyoka mpulira eddoboozi nga ligamba nti,
174:17 a Yob 9:2 b Yob 35:10‘Omuntu afa ayinza okuba omutuukirivu okusinga Katonda?
Omuntu ayinza okuba omulongoofu okusinga Omutonzi we?
184:18 Yob 15:15Obanga abaddu be tabeesiga,
nga bamalayika be abalanga ensobi
194:19 a Yob 10:9 b Yob 22:16 c Lub 2:7kale kiriba kitya,
abo abasula mu z’ebbumba ezirina emisingi egiri mu nfuufu,
ababetentebwa n’okusinga ekiwojjolo?
204:20 Yob 14:2, 20; 20:7; Zab 90:5-6Bamalibwawo wakati w’amakya n’akawungeezi,
bazikirira emirembe n’emirembe awatali abafaako.
214:21 a Yob 8:22 b Yob 18:21; 36:12Omuguwa gwa weema yaabwe gusimbulwa munda,
ne bafa ng’abasirusiru.’ ”
Eliphaz
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2‘If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
But who can keep from speaking?
3Think how you have instructed many,
how you have strengthened feeble hands.
4Your words have supported those who stumbled;
you have strengthened faltering knees.
5But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;
it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6Should not your piety be your confidence
and your blameless ways your hope?
7‘Consider now: who, being innocent, has ever perished?
Where were the upright ever destroyed?
8As I have observed, those who plough evil
and those who sow trouble reap it.
9At the breath of God they perish;
at the blast of his anger they are no more.
10The lions may roar and growl,
yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
11The lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12‘A word was secretly brought to me,
my ears caught a whisper of it.
13Amid disquieting dreams in the night,
when deep sleep falls on people,
14fear and trembling seized me
and made all my bones shake.
15A spirit glided past my face,
and the hair on my body stood on end.
16It stopped,
but I could not tell what it was.
A form stood before my eyes,
and I heard a hushed voice:
17“Can a mortal be more righteous than God?
Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
18If God places no trust in his servants,
if he charges his angels with error,
19how much more those who live in houses of clay,
whose foundations are in the dust,
who are crushed more readily than a moth!
20Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;
unnoticed, they perish for ever.
21Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,
so that they die without wisdom?”
