Job Complains to God
I Am Sick of Life!
1 I am sick of life!
And from my deep despair,
I complain to you, my God.
2 Don't just condemn me!
Point out my sin.
3 Why do you take such delight
in destroying those you created
and in smiling on sinners?
4 Do you look at things
the way we humans do?
5 Is your life as short as ours?
6 Is that why you are so quick
to find fault with me?
7 You know I am innocent,
but who can defend me
against you?
8 Will you now destroy
someone you created?
9 Remember that you molded me
like a piece of clay.
So don't turn me back
into dust once again.
10 As cheese is made from milk,
you created my body
from a tiny drop.
11 Then you tied my bones together
with muscles and covered them
with flesh and skin.
12 You, the source of my life,
showered me with kindness
and watched over me.
You Have Not Explained
13 You have not explained
all of your mysteries,
14 but you catch and punish me
each time I sin.
15 Guilty or innocent,
I am condemned and ashamed
because of my troubles.
16 No matter how hard I try,
you keep hunting me down
like a powerful lion.
17 You never stop accusing me;
you become furious and attack
over and over again.
18 Why did you let me be born?
I would rather have died
before birth
19 and been carried to the grave
without ever breathing.
20 I have only a few days left.
Why don't you leave me alone?
Let me find some relief,
* 21 before I travel to the land
22 of darkness and despair,
the place of no return.
1 “Ndoshima butjilo gwangu,
ndowodusa tjipa moyo ngekwe kung'ong'ola kwangu,
ndowolebeleka ngogwadziwa kumukati kwangu.
2 Ndowodwa Ndzimu nditi musindibone nlandu,
koga mundibudze kuti ini tjamunondibonela nlandu.
3 Apa komushathisa kundidziyidza,
kulengudza nshingo we maboko enyu kene?
Koga mushathila butjakwani gwe babi kene?
4 Apa muna mesho e nyama kene?
Apa mobona sekunobona nthu?
5 Apa mazhuba enyu anofanana ne mazhuba e nthu wali?
Ne makole enyu apa anofanana ne e nthu wali?
6 Ini ngono mushakisisa kutjinya kwangu,
ne kusala shule tjibi tjangu?
7 Nenguba muziba zwenyu kuti andite ndili nlandu
ne kuti akuna iye ungandiangula mu luboko gwenyu kene?
8 “Nge maboko enyu makandisinyanga mukandibumba.
Apa ngwenu mungashanduka mukandikolomola kene?
9 Kumbulani kuti makandibumba nge ntapkhwi.
Apa mowondishandula ndikabe hwuluba kakale kene?
10 Apa amuzonditebula se nkaka kene?
Apa amuzondikununga se tjatjile kene?
11 Apa amuzondiambadza ganda ne nyama,
mukandiluka mubhatshanya mafupa angu ne makanyu kene?
12 Makandipa butjilo ne ludo gusingazunguzike,
makatjengeta meya yangu.
13 “Koga zwithu izwezwi makazwisumbika mu moyo wenyu,
ndoziba kuti ikoku kwagala kuli mu nkumbulo wenyu.
14 Ha nditjinya mobe makandilinga,
ngono amungandiletje ndisalobgwa shamu.
15 Ha ndili nlandu, ndabangalaligwa wee!
Ha ndili nlulwami, ndokongwa nge kumusa nsholo wangu
ngobe ndibhakhwa nge shoni kwazo,
andibona kudziyidzika kwangu.
16 Ha nditi ndomusa nsholo mondivima se shumba,
mothama matjenamiso mundili.
17 Momusidzila batendeki benyu batshwa nge kwangu,
mupapha bushongola gwenyu mu ndili,
mogala muna zila tshwa kundiloba.
18 “Makathamilani kuti ndizwagwe kene?
Ndoyemula ndingabe ndakafa kusina zhisho lathu landibona,
19 kuti kunge se ungati andizotongobepo,
kene kunge se ungati ndakadwa mu ntumbu ndiyisiwa ku gomba.
20 Apa mazhuba angu e bupenyu ate ali mashomanana kene?
Mundiletje nditongobe nge tjibaka tje shatho,
21 ndisathu ndikayenda kwandisingawoshanduka,
ku shango ye buyendasi ne zhalima lakati zwititi,
22 shango yakati zwititi ne kushangashangana
shango ina tjedza tjinonga zhalima.”