1“Do not mortals have hard service on earth?
Are not their days like those of hired laborers?
2Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,
or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,
3so I have been allotted months of futility,
and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
4When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’
The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
5My body is clothed with worms and scabs,
my skin is broken and festering.
6“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
and they come to an end without hope.
7Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;
my eyes will never see happiness again.
8The eye that now sees me will see me no longer;
you will look for me, but I will be no more.
9As a cloud vanishes and is gone,
so one who goes down to the grave does not return.
10He will never come to his house again;
his place will know him no more.
11“Therefore I will not keep silent;
I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit,
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep,
that you put me under guard?
13When I think my bed will comfort me
and my couch will ease my complaint,
14even then you frighten me with dreams
and terrify me with visions,
15so that I prefer strangling and death,
rather than this body of mine.
16I despise my life; I would not live forever.
Let me alone; my days have no meaning.
17“What is mankind that you make so much of them,
that you give them so much attention,
18that you examine them every morning
and test them every moment?
19Will you never look away from me,
or let me alone even for an instant?
20If I have sinned, what have I done to you,
you who see everything we do?
Why have you made me your target?
Have I become a burden to you?7:20 A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text I have become a burden to myself.
21Why do you not pardon my offenses
and forgive my sins?
For I will soon lie down in the dust;
you will search for me, but I will be no more.”
Ayubu: Mateso Yangu Hayana Mwisho
17:1 Ay 14:6, 13-14; Isa 40:2; Law 25:50; Za 39:4; Mhu 3:1, 2; Ay 5:7“Je, mwanadamu hana kazi ngumu duniani?
Siku zake si kama zile za mtu aliyeajiriwa?
27:2 Law 19:13; Ay 14:1; Mhu 2:23; Ay 14:6Kama mtumwa anavyovionea shauku vivuli vya jioni,
au mtu aliyeajiriwa anavyoungojea mshahara wake,
37:3 Mhu 4:1; Mao 1:2, 16; Za 39:5; Mhu 1:14; Isa 16:9; Yer 9:1ndivyo nilivyogawiwa miezi ya ubatili,
nami nimeandikiwa huzuni usiku hata usiku.
47:4 Kum 28:67; Ay 7:13-14Wakati nilalapo ninawaza, ‘Itachukua muda gani kabla sijaamka?’
Usiku huwa mrefu, nami najigeuzageuza hadi mapambazuko.
57:5 Ay 17:14; Za 38:5-7; Isa 1:6Mwili wangu umevikwa mabuu na uchafu,
ngozi yangu imetumbuka na kutunga usaha.
Ayubu Anamlilia Mungu
67:6 Za 39:5; 52:9; Isa 38:15; Ay 9:25; 13:15“Siku zangu zinapita upesi kuliko mtande wa kufuma,
nazo zinafikia mwisho wake bila matumaini.
77:7 Mhu 7:15; Yak 4:14; Ay 9:25; Za 78:39Kumbuka, Ee Mungu, maisha yangu ni kama pumzi;
macho yangu kamwe hayataona tena raha.
87:8 Isa 41:12; Mdo 20:25; Ay 20:9Lile jicho linaloniona sasa halitaniona tena;
utanitafuta, wala sitakuwepo.
97:9 Ay 30:15; 38:17; 2Sam 12:23; Za 39:13Kama vile wingu liondokavyo na kutoweka,
vivyo hivyo yeye ashukaye kaburini7:9 Kaburini hapa maana yake ni Kuzimu, kwa Kiebrania ni Sheol. harudi tena.
107:10 Ay 18:21; 21:18; 27:21; Za 58:9; Yer 18:17; 19:8; Za 37:10; 104:35Kamwe harudi tena nyumbani mwake;
wala mahali pake hapatamjua tena.
117:11 Za 39:1, 9“Kwa hiyo sitanyamaza;
nitanena kutokana na maumivu makuu ya roho yangu,
nitalalama kwa uchungu wa nafsi yangu.
127:12 Mwa 1:21; Eze 32:2-3; Ay 38:8-11; Isa 1:14Je, mimi ni bahari, au mnyama mkubwa mno akaaye vilindini,
hata uniweke chini ya ulinzi?
137:13 Ay 7:11Ninapofikiri kwamba kitanda changu kitanifariji,
nacho kiti changu cha fahari kitapunguza malalamiko yangu,
147:14 Ay 9:34; 3:26; Mwa 41:8ndipo wanitisha kwa ndoto
na kunitia hofu kwa maono,
157:15 1Fal 19:4; Yn 4:3; Ay 6:9; Ufu 9:6hivyo ninachagua kujinyonga na kufa,
kuliko huu mwili wangu.
167:16 Mwa 27:46; Za 62:9; 1Fal 19:4; Ay 10:1; Mhu 6:11Ninayachukia maisha yangu; nisingetamani kuendelea kuishi.
Niache; siku zangu ni ubatili.
177:17 Za 144:3; 8:4; Ebr 2:6; Ay 4:19“Mwanadamu ni kitu gani hata umjali kiasi hiki,
kwamba unamtia sana maanani,
187:18 Ay 23:10; 14:3; Za 139:23; 17:3; 26:2; 66:10; 73:14kwamba unamwangalia kila asubuhi
na kumjaribu kila wakati?
197:19 Ay 7:16; 9:18; 13:26; 14:6; 27:2; Za 139:7Je, hutaacha kamwe kunitazama,
au kuniacha japo kwa kitambo kidogo tu?
207:20 Yer 7:19; Ay 6:4; 16:12; 35:6; Za 36:6Ikiwa nimetenda dhambi, nimekufanyia nini,
Ewe mlinzi wa wanadamu?
Kwa nini umeniweka niwe shabaha yako?
Je, nimekuwa mzigo kwako?
217:21 Yer 31:34; Mwa 3:19; Ay 9:28; Ebr 1:3; Za 119:120; 7:5; 22:15; 90:3; 104:29; Isa 43:25Kwa nini husamehi makosa yangu
na kuachilia dhambi zangu?
Kwa kuwa hivi karibuni nitalala mavumbini;
nawe utanitafuta, wala sitakuwepo.”
