Job’s Final Word to His Friends
1And Job continued his discourse:
2“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,
the Almighty, who has made my life bitter,
3as long as I have life within me,
the breath of God in my nostrils,
4my lips will not say anything wicked,
and my tongue will not utter lies.
5I will never admit you are in the right;
till I die, I will not deny my integrity.
6I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it;
my conscience will not reproach me as long as I live.
7“May my enemy be like the wicked,
my adversary like the unjust!
8For what hope have the godless when they are cut off,
when God takes away their life?
9Does God listen to their cry
when distress comes upon them?
10Will they find delight in the Almighty?
Will they call on God at all times?
11“I will teach you about the power of God;
the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.
12You have all seen this yourselves.
Why then this meaningless talk?
13“Here is the fate God allots to the wicked,
the heritage a ruthless man receives from the Almighty:
14However many his children, their fate is the sword;
his offspring will never have enough to eat.
15The plague will bury those who survive him,
and their widows will not weep for them.
16Though he heaps up silver like dust
and clothes like piles of clay,
17what he lays up the righteous will wear,
and the innocent will divide his silver.
18The house he builds is like a moth’s cocoon,
like a hut made by a watchman.
19He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more;
when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
20Terrors overtake him like a flood;
a tempest snatches him away in the night.
21The east wind carries him off, and he is gone;
it sweeps him out of his place.
22It hurls itself against him without mercy
as he flees headlong from its power.
23It claps its hands in derision
and hisses him out of his place.”
Hotuba Ya Mwisho Ya Ayubu
Ayubu Anadumisha Uadilifu Wake
127:1 Ay 29:1Ndipo Ayubu akaendelea na hoja yake, akasema:
227:2 Ay 9:18; 34:5; Isa 45:9; 1Sam 1:10“Hakika kama Mungu aishivyo, aliyeninyima haki yangu,
Mwenyezi ambaye amenifanya
nionje uchungu wa nafsi,
327:3 Mwa 2:7; Za 144:4kwa muda wote nitakaokuwa na uhai ndani yangu,
nayo pumzi ya Mungu ikiwa puani mwangu,
427:4 Ay 6:28; 12:16; 16:17midomo yangu haitanena uovu,
wala ulimi wangu hautatamka udanganyifu.
527:5 Ay 2:9; 10:7; 32:2Sitakubaliana nanyi kabisa kuwa mko sahihi;
hadi nife, sitakana uadilifu wangu.
627:6 Ay 29:14; Za 119:121; Isa 59:17; 61:10; Rum 2:15Nitadumisha haki yangu wala sitaiacha;
dhamiri yangu haitanisuta muda wote ninaoishi.
7“Watesi wangu wawe kama waovu,
nao adui zangu wawe kama wasio haki!
827:8 Ay 8:13; Hes 16:22; Lk 12:20; Mt 16:26Kwa maana mtu asiyemcha Mungu
analo tegemeo gani anapokatiliwa mbali,
Mungu anapouondoa uhai wake?
927:9 Zek 7:13; Mik 3:4; 1Sam 8:18Je, Mungu husikiliza kilio chake,
shida zimjiapo?
1027:10 Ay 22:26Je, anaweza kumfurahia Mwenyezi?
Je, atamwita Mungu nyakati zote?
1127:11 Ay 36:23; 27:13“Nitawafundisha juu ya uweza wa Mungu;
njia za Mwenyezi sitazificha.
12Ninyi nyote mmeona hili wenyewe.
Ni ya nini basi mazungumzo haya yasiyo na maana?
1327:13 Ay 15:20; 16:19“Hili ndilo fungu ambalo Mungu humpa mtu mwovu,
urithi ule mtu mdhalimu anapokea kutoka kwa Mwenyezi:
1427:14 Mao 2:22; Es 9:10; Hos 9:13; Ay 20:10; 2Fal 10:6-10Hata kama watoto wake watakuwa wengi kiasi gani,
fungu lao ni kuuawa kwa upanga;
wazao wake hawatakuwa kamwe
na chakula cha kuwatosha.
1527:15 Za 78:64Tauni itawazika wale watakaonusurika miongoni mwao,
nao wajane wao hawatawaombolezea.
1627:16 Zek 9:3Ajapokusanya fedha nyingi kama mavumbi,
na mavazi kama malundo ya udongo wa mfinyanzi,
1727:17 Mit 13:22; Mhu 2:26yale yote mtu mwovu aliyojiwekea akiba, mwenye haki atayavaa,
naye asiye na hatia ataigawanya fedha yake.
1827:18 Ay 8:14; Isa 1:8; 24:20; Mao 2:6Nyumba aijengayo ni kama utando wa buibui,
kama kibanda alichotengeneza mlinzi.
1927:19 Ay 3:13; Hes 20:26Yeye hulala akiwa tajiri, lakini ndiyo mara ya mwisho;
afunguapo macho yake, yote yametoweka.
2027:20 Ay 15:21; 20:8Vitisho humjia kama mafuriko;
dhoruba humkumba ghafula usiku.
2127:21 Ay 38:24; Yer 13:24; Ay 30:22; 7:10; Yer 22:22Upepo mkali wa mashariki humchukua, naye hutoweka;
humzoa kutoka mahali pake.
2227:22 Yer 13:14; Eze 5:11; Ay 11:20Humvurumisha bila huruma,
huku akikimbia kasi kukwepa nguvu zake.
2327:23 Ay 7:10; 18:18Upepo humpigia makofi kwa dharau,
na kumfukuza atoke mahali pake.
