1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, 2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; 4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; 5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; 6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 When the ear heard me , then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me , it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. 16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. 19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. 20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. 21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. 22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. 23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. 24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. 25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
Matama a Jobe e bupelo
1 Jobe kadwilila kakale nge ndebeleko iye eti,
2 “Ungati ndingabe ndinga tjandakabe ndili itjo mimwedzi yakapinda,
kunga mu mazhuba iyawaje Ndzimu ugala wakandilisa,
3 pawakabe uthama kuti luvone gwawo gupenye pezhugwi kwe nsholo wangu,
nge tjedza tjawo ndipalame zhalima,
4 se mazhuba andakabe nditjakasima,
kwakabe buzwalani gwangu ne Ndzimu gwakakombolela nzi wangu.
5 Masimbawose bakabe banami,
bana bangu bakandipoteleka.
6 Matshambo angu ndakabe ndiyazhodza lubomba,
mabgwe enditebukila mafuta e mitoba.
7 Ndakabe nditi andiyenda ku nkoba we nzi nkulu,
nditi nditola tjigalo tjangu pa tjibata,
8 bazhuzha bakabe betsheduka abendibona,
sholotjena dzikama nge makumbo,
9 makombgwa akabe emisa kulebeleka,
bebiga maboko pa milomo yabo,
10 mahwi e banokudziwa akabe eti hwu,
ndimi dzabo dzakabe dzinamatilana ne mbgwasha dzabo.
11 “Zebe yakabe endihwa ikandikombolela,
zhisho lakabe lindibona likapa butendeki nge kwangu.
12 Ngoti ndakabhatsha nshayi wakabe ekumbila bhatsho,
ne siyangwa yakabe isina unoibhatsha.
13 Ndakakombolegwa ndi iwoyu wakabe abepejo ngokufa,
athama kuti tjilikadzi ipembele nge kushatha.
14 Ndakafuka ndulamo se tjiambalo tjangu,
kutambunuka kwangu kukanga hazu ne tjiala
ikandiambadza se hazu ne tjiala.
15 Ndakabe mesho ku bhofu,
ndikabe makumbo ku tjilema tje makumbo.
16 Ndakabe tate ku nshayi,
amilila wandisingazibe mu lubazhe.
17 Ndakavuna meno e mbiimbi,
adzamula wakabe awila mu meno awe.
18 Ndakakumbula nditi, ‘Ndowofila mu shaka langu,
ndowowatsha mazhuba angu akanga nsetje.
19 Midzi yangu inowala ikanoti ku vula,
ne thabi dzangu dzowigwa ne khawa.
20 Gudzo langu lidzwa nsi ne nsi mundili,
ne dati langu logala lilidzwa koga mu luboko gwangu.’
21 “Bathu bakabe benditeedza nge kugalabgwe,
bakabe benyalala beti hwu, behwa gumbuludzo langu.
22 Shule kwe ndalebeleka bakabe basingatjalebe tjimwe,
matama angu akabe edothekela mu zebe dzabo zubuyanana.
23 Bakabe bendilindila se bakalinda vula,
beashama se nthu una nyota mu nsi we nyawuko.
24 Ndakabe ndibamwemwetelela apa basina kugalabgwe,
penya kwe tjiso tjangu kwakabe kubasimisa.
25 Ndakashalula zila yabo ngono agala sa she wabo,
ndakagala sa mambo pakati kwe babhayani babe,
sa iye unonyaladza banolila.