Job
1Then Job replied:
2“I have heard many things like these;
you are miserable comforters, all of you!
3Will your long-winded speeches never end?
What ails you that you keep on arguing?
4I also could speak like you,
if you were in my place;
I could make fine speeches against you
and shake my head at you.
5But my mouth would encourage you;
comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
6“Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved;
and if I refrain, it does not go away.
7Surely, God, you have worn me out;
you have devastated my entire household.
8You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness;
my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
9God assails me and tears me in his anger
and gnashes his teeth at me;
my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.
10People open their mouths to jeer at me;
they strike my cheek in scorn
and unite together against me.
11God has turned me over to the ungodly
and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.
12All was well with me, but he shattered me;
he seized me by the neck and crushed me.
He has made me his target;
13his archers surround me.
Without pity, he pierces my kidneys
and spills my gall on the ground.
14Again and again he bursts upon me;
he rushes at me like a warrior.
15“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin
and buried my brow in the dust.
16My face is red with weeping,
dark shadows ring my eyes;
17yet my hands have been free of violence
and my prayer is pure.
18“Earth, do not cover my blood;
may my cry never be laid to rest!
19Even now my witness is in heaven;
my advocate is on high.
20My intercessor is my friend16:20 Or My friends treat me with scorn
as my eyes pour out tears to God;
21on behalf of a man he pleads with God
as one pleads for a friend.
22“Only a few years will pass
before I take the path of no return.
Hotuba Ya Tano Ya Ayubu
Ayubu Anathibitisha Tena Hali Yake Ya Kutokuwa Na Hatia
1Kisha Ayubu akajibu:
216:2 Ay 6:15; 13:4; Za 69:20“Nimepata kusikia mambo mengi kama haya,
nanyi nyote ni wafariji wenye kutaabisha!
316:3 Ay 6:26; 11:2; 18:2Je, maneno yenu mengi yasiyo na maana hayana mwisho?
Mna nini hata mwendelee kushindana kwa maneno?
416:4 Mt 27:29; Yer 18:16; Mao 2:15Mimi pia ningeweza kuzungumza kama ninyi,
kama mngekuwa katika hali yangu;
ningeweza kutoa hotuba nzuri dhidi yenu,
na kuwatikisia ninyi kichwa changu.
516:5 Ay 29:25; Mwa 37:35Lakini kinywa changu kingewatia moyo;
faraja kutoka midomoni mwangu, ingewaletea nafuu.
616:6 Ay 6:3; 7:21“Lakini kama nikisema, maumivu yangu bado hayatulizwi;
nami kama nikijizuia, wala hayaondoki.
716:7 Amu 8:5; Ay 7:3; 1:19Ee Mungu, hakika umenichakaza;
umewaangamiza kabisa watu wa nyumbani mwangu wote.
816:8 Mao 5:17; Ay 10:17; 17:7; 19:20; Za 22:17; 88:9; 6:7Umenikunjakunja, nalo limekuwa ushahidi;
nako kukonda kwangu kumeongezeka sana na kushuhudia dhidi yangu.
916:9 Ay 12:14; 13:24; Mao 2:16; Mdo 7:54; Hos 6:1; Ay 30:21; 9:5; 18:4; 19:11Mungu amenishambulia na kunirarua katika hasira yake,
na kunisagia meno yake;
adui yangu hunikazia macho yake makali.
1016:10 Za 22:13; Mao 3:30; Mdo 7:57; 23:2; Za 27:3; Mik 5:1Watu wamenifumbulia vinywa vyao kunidhihaki;
hunipiga shavuni mwangu kwa dharau,
na kuungana pamoja dhidi yangu.
1116:11 Ay 9:24Mungu amenigeuzia kwa watu wabaya,
na kunitupa katika makucha ya waovu.
1216:12 Ay 9:17; 6:4; Mao 3:12Mambo yote yalikuwa mazuri, lakini alinivunjavunja;
amenikamata shingo na kuniponda.
Amenifanya mimi kuwa shabaha yake;
1316:13 Mit 7:23; Mao 3:13wapiga upinde wake wananizunguka.
Bila huruma, huchoma figo zangu,
na kuimwaga nyongo yangu juu ya nchi.
1416:14 Ay 9:17; 10:3; Yoe 2:7Huniponda tena na tena;
hunishambulia kama shujaa wa vita.
1516:15 Mwa 37:34; Ay 2:8“Nimejishonea nguo ya gunia juu ya mwili wangu
nami nimekizika kipaji cha uso wangu kwenye vumbi.
1616:16 Ay 16:20; 2:7; 17:7; 30:17, 30; Isa 52:14; Za 6:6Uso wangu umekuwa mwekundu kwa kulia,
macho yangu yamepigwa na giza kuu.
1716:17 Yer 18:11; Yon 3:8Hata hivyo mikono yangu haijafanya jeuri,
na maombi yangu ni safi.
1816:18 Mwa 4:10; Ay 27:9; Isa 26:21; Za 66:18-19; Ebr 11:4“Ee nchi, usiifunike damu yangu,
nacho kilio changu kisinyamazishwe kamwe.
1916:19 Mwa 31:50; Rum 1:9; 1The 2:5; Ay 22:12; 19:27; Za 113:5; Isa 33:5Hata sasa shahidi wangu yuko mbinguni;
wakili wangu yuko juu.
2016:20 Mao 2:19; Rum 8:34; Yn 15:15; Ay 16:16Mwombezi wangu ni rafiki yangu
macho yangu yamwagapo machozi kwa Mungu;
2116:21 1Fal 8:45; Za 140:12kwa niaba ya mtu anamsihi Mungu
kama mtu anavyosihi kwa ajili ya rafiki yake.
2216:22 Ay 10:21; Mhu 12:5“Ni miaka michache tu itapita
kabla sijaenda safari ambayo sitarudi.
