Job’s Reply
1Job replied,
2“How long will you people make me suffer?
How long will you crush me with your words?
3You have already accused me many times.
You have attacked me without feeling any shame.
4Suppose it’s true that I’ve gone down the wrong path.
Then it’s my concern, not yours.
5Suppose you want to place yourselves above me.
Suppose you want to use my shame to prove I’m wrong.
6Then I want you to know that God hasn’t treated me right.
In fact, he has captured me in his net.
7“I cry out, ‘Someone harmed me!’
But I don’t get any reply.
I call out for help.
But I’m not treated fairly.
8God has blocked my way, and I can’t get through.
He has made my paths so dark I can’t see where I’m going.
9He has taken my wealth away from me.
He has stripped me of my honor.
10He tears me down on every side until I’m gone.
He pulls up the roots of my hope as if I were a tree.
11His anger burns against me.
He thinks I’m one of his enemies.
12His troops march toward me in force.
They come at me from every direction.
They camp around my tent.
13“God has caused my family to desert me.
The people I used to know are now strangers to me.
14My relatives have gone away.
My closest friends have forgotten me.
15My guests and my female servants think of me as a stranger.
They look at me as if I were an outsider.
16I send for my servant, but he doesn’t answer.
He doesn’t come, even though I beg him to.
17My wife can’t stand the way my breath smells.
My own family won’t have anything to do with me.
18Even little children mock me.
When I appear, they make fun of me.
19All my close friends hate me.
Those I love have turned against me.
20I’m nothing but skin and bones.
I’ve barely escaped death.
21“Have pity on me, my friends! Please have pity!
God has struck me down with his powerful hand.
22Why do you chase after me as he does?
Aren’t you satisfied with what you have done to me already?
23“I wish my words were written down!
I wish they were written in a book!
24I wish they were cut into lead with an iron tool!
I wish they were carved in rock forever!
25I know that my redeemer lives.
In the end he will stand on the earth.
26Though my skin will be destroyed,
in my body I’ll see God.
27I myself will see him with my own eyes.
I’ll see him, and he won’t be a stranger to me.
How my heart longs for that day!
28“You might say, ‘Let’s keep bothering Job.
After all, he’s the cause of all his suffering.’
29But you should be afraid when God comes to judge you.
He’ll be angry. He’ll punish you with his sword.
Then you will know that he is the Judge.”
Yobu Amuddamu
1Awo Yobu n’addamu nti:
2“Mulikomya ddi okunnyigiriza
ne mummenya n’ebigambo?
3Emirundi kkumi nga munvuma;
temukwatiddwa nsonyi kunnumba.
419:4 Yob 6:24Bwe kiba nga kituufu nti nawaba,
obukyamu bwange, bwange nzekka.
519:5 Zab 35:26; 38:16; 55:12Bwe muba munneegulumiririzaako
ne mukozesa obulumi bwange okunfeebya,
619:6 a Yob 27:2 b Yob 18:8mumanye nga Katonda ankoze bubi
era anzingizza mu kitimba kye.
719:7 a Yob 30:20 b Yob 9:24; Kbk 1:2-4“Wadde nga nkaaba nti, ‘Mpisiddwa bubi,’ siddibwamu;
ne bwe nkuba enduulu, tewali antaasa.
819:8 a Yob 3:23; Kgb 3:7 b Yob 30:26Azibye ekkubo lyange sisobola kuyita;
amakubo gange agalese mu kizikiza.
919:9 a Yob 12:17 b Zab 89:39, 44; Kgb 5:16Anziggyeeko ekitiibwa kyange
n’anziggyako n’engule ku mutwe gwange.
1019:10 a Yob 12:14 b Yob 7:6 c Yob 24:20Anjuzaayuza ku buli ludda okutuusa lwe watasigalawo kantu,
asigula essuubi lyange ng’omuti.
1119:11 a Yob 16:9 b Yob 13:24Obusungu bwe bumbubuukirako;
ambala ng’omu ku balabe be.
1219:12 a Yob 16:13 b Yob 30:12Amaggye ge galumba n’amaanyi;
ganzimbako enkomera
ne gagumba okwetooloola weema yange.
1319:13 a Zab 69:8 b Yob 16:7; Zab 88:8“Anziggyeeko baganda bange;
abo bwe twali tumanyiganye banviiriddeko ddala.
14Ab’ekika kyange banviiriddeko ddala,
mikwano gyange ginneerabidde.
15Abagenyi bange n’abaweereza bange abawala, bampisa nga gwe batamanyi,
ne bandaba nga munnagwanga.
16Mpita omuddu wange naye tawulira,
wadde nga mwegayirira n’akamwa kange.
17Omukka gwange gwe nzisa, guwunyira bubi mukyala wange;
nakyayibwa baganda bange bennyini.
1819:18 2Bk 2:23N’obulenzi obuto bunsekerera;
buli lwe bundaba bunvuma.
1919:19 a Zab 55:12-13 b Zab 38:11Mikwano gyange gyonna enfirabulago gya nkyawa;
abo be nnayagalanga banneefuukira.
2019:20 Yob 33:21; Zab 102:5Siriiko bwe ndi wabula ndi ddiba na magumba:
nsigazzaawo bibuno byokka.
21“Munkwatirwe ekisa mikwano gyange, munkwatirwe ekisa,
kubanga omukono gwa Katonda gunkubye.
2219:22 a Yob 13:25; 16:11 b Zab 69:26Lwaki munjigga nga Katonda bw’anjigga?
Omubiri gwe mufunye tegumala?
2319:23 Is 30:8“Singa nno ebigambo byange byawandiikibwa,
Singa byawandiikibwa ku muzingo, bandiguwadde ani?
24Singa byawandiikibwa n’ekyuma ku lubaati,
oba okuwandiikibwa ku lwazi ne bibeerawo emirembe n’emirembe!
2519:25 a Zab 78:35; Nge 23:11; Is 43:14; Yer 50:34 b Yob 16:19Mmanyi nga Omununuzi wange mulamu,
era nga ku nkomerero aliyimirira ku nsi.
2619:26 Zab 17:15; Mat 5:8; 1Ko 13:12; 1Yk 3:2Era ng’olususu lwange bwe luweddewo,
kyokka mu mubiri gwange ndiraba Katonda;
2719:27 Zab 73:26nze mwene ndimulaba,
n’amaaso gange, Nze, so si mulala.
Emmeeme yange ng’eyaayaana munda mu nze!
28“Bwe mugamba nti, ‘Tujja kumuyigganya,
kubanga ensibuko y’emitawaana eri mu ye;’
2919:29 a Yob 15:22 b Yob 22:4; Zab 1:5; 9:7nammwe bennyini musaana mutye ekitala.
Kubanga obusungu buleeta okubonereza okw’ekitala,
olwo mulyoke mumanye ng’eriyo okusalirwa omusango.”
