Job
1-2 I still rebel and complain against God;
I cannot keep from groaning.
3 How I wish I knew where to find him,
and knew how to go where he is.
4 I would state my case before him
and present all the arguments in my favor.
5 I want to know what he would say
and how he would answer me.
6 Would God use all his strength against me?
No, he would listen as I spoke.
7 I am honest; I could reason with God;
he would declare me innocent once and for all.
8 I have searched in the East, but God is not there;
I have not found him when I searched in the West.
9 God has been at work in the North and the South,
but still I have not seen him.
10 Yet God knows every step I take;
if he tests me, he will find me pure.
11 I follow faithfully the road he chooses,
and never wander to either side.
12 I always do what God commands;
I follow his will, not my own desires.
13 He never changes. No one can oppose him
or stop him from doing what he wants to do.
14 He will fulfill what he has planned for me;
that plan is just one of the many he has;
15 I tremble with fear before him.
16-17 Almighty God has destroyed my courage.
It is God, not the dark, that makes me afraid—
even though the darkness has made me blind.
1 Ipapo Jobe kashandula eti,
2 “Nanasi kose nditjang'ong'ola kwazo
luboko gwawo gondilemela nenguba ndatjipelegwa.
3 Ha ndingabe ndiziba kwandingaubona,
pamwe azha pa bugalo gwawo!
4 Ndabe ndowozhisa ndebo yangu mbeli kwawo,
ngono azwilebelekela.
5 Ndabe ndowoziba matama aunondishandula ndiwo,
ne kuhwisisa zwaunondidwa.
6 Apa unowonyanyaidzana nami nge bukulu gwawo kene?
Ndodwa, nge malebeswa unowonditeedza.
7 Ikoko nlulwami unowozwilebelekela nawo
asunungugwa tjatjose mu nsumikilisi wangu.
8 “Bonani, ha ndibhudila kunobhuda zhuba aupo ko,
ha ndibhudila kunomila zhuba anditouwana ko.
9 Ngono apa uli mu nshingo ku bunadzwa, anditoubona
apa ushandukila ku burwa naiko anditoubona.
10 Koga unoziba zila imwe ne imwe yandinotola
ausina kundilika, ndowobhuda ndinga golide.
11 Ndakatshamba mu thambo dzawo,
ndakalondolodza zila dzawo ndisingapambukile ntome.
12 Andizotongo letja sala shule ndaulo dzawo dzawakaleba,
Ndakabiganya matama awo awakaleba.
13 Koga iwo autoshandukila nkumbulo wawo,
ndiani ungaunyanyaidza? Tjaunoyemula unotjithama.
14 Unowopeleledza tjawakalongolosa nge kwangu,
ngono ndongoloso dzakajali dzinji mu nkumbulo wawo.
15 Ndizo wali ndina kutja kukulu mbeli kwawo
andikumbula kose ikoko, ndoutja dumbu.
16 Ndzimu wathama kuti nditjekeke bula,
Masimbawose unonditjisa.
17 Koga ate lili zhalima linonditjisa,
nenguba zwako zhalima lakandizwimba mesho.