1 Ipapo Jobe kashandula eti,
2 “Wambhatsha seni iye usina matatabuko!
Wambhatsha seni iye una maboko asakasima!
3 Wakumbuludza seni usina butjenjedu!
Naiko hwu zibisisa kungapani kwawalakidza kene!
4 Apa ndiani wakubhatsha kuti ulebe matama iyawa kene?
Apa i meya yaani inolebeleka idwa mukuli kene?
5 Bafi banotetema bali kusi kwe vula
ne zose zwinogala muili.
6 Bugalo gwe bafi gwakaambuka mbeli kwe Ndzimu
ne Golomodzo alizozwimbiwa.
7 Unotalabudza zhuzhugwi liku bunandzwa kusina tjimwe,
ukalembeledza shango mu phepo kusina tjimwe.
8 Unopetela vula mu makole awo,
ngono koga makole atophutukana ngolema kwayo.
9 Unozwimba kuboneka kwe mwedzi uzhele,
nge kuukwididza nge gole lawo.
10 Unotala n'gathu pezhugwi kwe vula,
kuthama n'gathu unothubukanya tjedza ne zhalima.
11 Phanda dze kudzimu dzotengenyeka
dzotjenamisiwa ngotjemela kwawo.
12 Nge simba lawo unodzikamisa gungwa,
nge hwisiso yawo unotemelela zhithu le gungwa linoyi Rahabu.
13 Nge meya yawo zhuzhugwi kwakaambuka,
nge luboko gwawo unobhaya nyoka imu kutizha.
14 Bonani, yezwi butukununu koga gwe zila dzawo,
tohwa kutukununu seni zwinyebezegwa nge kwawo!
Ndiani ungahwisisa nsindo we simba lawo kene?”
Job's Reply to Bildad
You Have Really Been Helpful
1 Job said:
2 You have really been helpful
to someone weak and weary.
3 You have given great advice
and wonderful wisdom
to someone truly in need.
4 How can anyone possibly speak
with such understanding?
5 Remember the terrible trembling
of those in the world of the dead
below the mighty ocean.
6 Nothing in that land
of death and destruction
is hidden from God,
7 who hung the northern sky
and suspended the earth
on empty space.
8 God stores water in clouds,
but they don't burst,
9 and he wraps them around
the face of the moon.
10 On the surface of the ocean,
God has drawn a boundary line
between light and darkness.
11 And columns supporting the sky
tremble at his command.
12 By his power and wisdom,
God conquered the force
of the mighty ocean.
13 The heavens became bright
when he breathed,
and the escaping sea monster
died at his hands.
14 These things are merely a whisper
of God's power at work.
How little we would understand
if this whisper
ever turned into thunder!