The Second Speech of Bildad
1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied,
2“Job, when will you stop these speeches of yours?
Be reasonable! Then we can talk.
3Why do you look at us as if we were cattle?
Why do you think of us as being stupid?
4Your anger is tearing you to pieces.
Does the earth have to be deserted just to prove you are right?
Must all the rocks be moved from their places?
5“The lamps of sinful people are blown out.
Their flames will never burn again.
6The lights in their tents become dark.
The lamps beside those who are evil go out.
7They walk more slowly than they used to.
Their own evil plans make them fall.
8Their feet take them into a net.
They wander right into it.
9A trap grabs hold of their heels.
It refuses to let them go.
10A trap lies in their path.
A rope to catch them is hidden on the ground.
11Terrors alarm them on every side.
They follow them every step of the way.
12Trouble would like to eat them up.
Danger waits for them when they fall.
13It eats away parts of their skin.
Death itself feeds on their arms and legs.
14They are torn away from the safety of their tents.
They are marched off to the one who rules over death.
15Fire races through their tents.
Burning sulfur is scattered over their homes.
16Their roots dry up under them.
Their branches dry up above them.
17No one on earth remembers them.
Their names are forgotten in the land.
18They are driven from light into the place of darkness.
They are thrown out of the world.
19Their family dies out among their people.
No one is left where they used to live.
20What has happened to them shocks the people in the west.
It terrifies the people in the east.
21Now you know what the homes of sinners are like.
Those who don’t know God live in places like that.”
Birudaadi Ayanukula
1Awo Birudaadi Omusukusi n’ayanukula n’agamba nti,
2“Mulikomya ddi okufuulafuula ebigambo?
Muddeemu amagezi, tulyoke twogere.
318:3 Zab 73:22Lwaki tutwalibwa ng’ente
era ne tulowoozebwa okuba abasirusiru mu maaso gammwe?
418:4 Yob 13:14Ggwe eyeyuzayuza olw’obusungu,
abantu ensi bagiveeko ku lulwo, oba enjazi zive mu bifo byazo?
518:5 Yob 21:17; Nge 13:9; 20:20; 24:20“Ddala etabaaza y’omukozi w’ebibi ezikidde,
era n’omuliro gw’ekyoto kye tegukyayaka.
6Ekitangaala kivudde mu weema ye;
n’ettaala eri ku mabbali ge nayo ezikidde.
718:7 a Nge 4:12 b Yob 5:13 c Yob 15:6Amaanyi gamuwedde, ebigere bye tebikyali bya maanyi,
era enkwe ze, ze zimusuula.
818:8 Yob 22:10; Zab 9:15; 35:7Eky’amazima ebigere bye byamusuula mu kitimba
era n’atangatanga mu butimba.
9Omutego gumukwata ekisinziiro;
akamasu ne kamunyweeza.
10Omuguwa gumukwekerwa mu ttaka;
akatego kamulindirira mu kkubo lye.
1118:11 a Yob 15:21; Yer 6:25; 20:3 b Yob 20:8Entiisa emukanga enjuuyi zonna
era n’emugoba kigere ku kigere.
1218:12 Is 8:21Emitawaana gimwesunga;
ekikangabwa kirindiridde okugwa kwe.
1318:13 Zek 14:12Kirya ebitundu by’olususu lwe;
omubereberye wa walumbe amulyako emikono n’ebigere.
1418:14 Yob 8:22Aggyibwa mu bukuumi bwa weema ye
era n’atwalibwa eri kabaka w’ebikangabwa.
1518:15 Zab 11:6Omuliro gumalirawo ddala byonna eby’omu weema ye;
ekibiriiti kyakira mu kifo mw’abeera.
1618:16 a Is 5:24; Kos 9:1-16; Am 2:9 b Yob 15:30; Mal 4:1Emirandira gye gikala wansi,
n’amatabi ge gakala waggulu.
1718:17 Zab 34:16; Nge 2:22; 10:7Ekijjukizo kye kibula ku nsi;
talina linnya mu nsi.
1818:18 Yob 5:14Agobebwa okuva mu kitangaala, agenda mu kizikiza
n’aggyibwa mu nsi.
1918:19 a Yer 22:30 b Is 14:22 c Yob 27:14-15Talina mwana wadde omuzzukulu mu bantu be,
newaakubadde ekifo mwabeera.
2018:20 Zab 37:13; Yer 50:27, 31Abantu ab’ebugwanjuba beewuunya ebyamutuukako;
n’ab’ebuvanjuba ne bakwatibwa ekikangabwa.
2118:21 a Yob 21:28 b Yer 9:3; 1Bs 4:5Ddala bw’etyo bw’ebeera ennyumba y’omukozi w’ebibi;
bwe gaba bwe gatyo amaka g’oyo atamanyi Katonda.”
