1 Elihu spake moreover, and said, 2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s? 3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and , What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? 4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. 5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou. 6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? 7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. 10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; 11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven? 12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men. 13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him. 15 But now, because it is not so , he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: 16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
1 Ipapo Elihu kati,
2 “Unokumbula kuti ikoku kwakalulwama kene?
Unoti, ‘I ndulamo yangu mbeli kwe Ndzimu,’
3 kwaungadzina ukaubhuzwa uti ‘Ndobuyigwa ngeni,
mu kusatjinya kwangu ikoku kene.’
4 Ndowokudabila
iwe ne bakwinya babo banawe.
5 Linga kuzhuzhugwi ubone,
bona makole a pezhugwi kule kule kukupinda.
6 Ha utjinya unobuyigwa ngeni kudwa muuli,
ha matjinyo awo ewanda kothamani kuuli?
7 Apa uli nlulwami unoupani kene,
kene, unoamutjilani tjinodwa mu luboko gugo?
8 Bubi gugo gotjinyila nthu koga unonga iwe,
ndulamo iyo inobhatsha bathu koga.
9 “Ngekwe bunjinji gwe kutshambilidziwa bathu banolila,
banolila bekumbila bhatsho ngoti luboko gwe wakasima gubakulila.
10 Koga akuna unoti, ‘Ndzimu ungayi mbumbi wangu,
iwo unombisa bathu busiku,
11 iwo unotidiya kupinda phuka dze shango,
iwo unotithama kuti titjenjele kupinda nyuni dze phepho.’
12 Ikoko banolilila kuuli koga autobadabila,
ngekwe mazwikudzo e bathu babi.
13 Nge malebeswa, Ndzimu autoteedza kukumbila kwe suli,
Masimbawose abana hanya nako ndodwa.
14 Bukulu seni ha uti autoubona,
koga ibe ne moyo nlefu tjililo tjitjo tji mbeli kwawo,
15 ngoti bushongola gwawo ate gwe kuloba shamu,
kakale auna hanya ngotjinya,
16 Jobe, unozhula nlomo ne matama e madatha koga,
ewatsha matama asina luzibo.”