Ayub 17
1 Chunya onyosore, ndalona ongʼad machiek, kendo thona ema chiegni koda.
“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
2 Jogo ma nyiera olwora koni gi koni; kendo asiko mana kaneno gero ma gin-go koda.
Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
3 “Yaye Nyasaye, nyisa gima idwaro. En ngʼa machielo mabiro rita?
“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
4 Isedino pachgi mondo kik gifweny adiera; omiyo ok ibi yie mondo gibed joloch.
For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.
5 Ka ngʼato ondhogo osiepne mondo oyud mwandu to gima otimono nyaka dongʼ ewi nyithinde.
He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.
6 “Nyasaye osemiyo abedo ngʼama ji duto goyo ngero kendo ma ka ji oneno to ngʼudho kuome olawo.
“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
7 Wengena koro ok nen maber nikech kuyo ma an-go; denda duto olokore choke lilo.
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
8 Joma paro ni gin joma kare kibaji omako; kendo joma paro ni ler wacho ni ok angʼeyo Nyasaye.
Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
9 Kata kamano, joma kare nosik koluwo yoregi makare, kendo joma yoregi oriere nomed bedo motegno.
Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
10 “Un duto weyauru kendo dhiuru mabor nikech ok aneno ngʼama riek kuomu-ka.
But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man amongst you.
11 Ndalona osekadho, chenrona duto osekethore, kaachiel gi gik moko duto ma chunya gombo.
My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
12 Jogi loko otieno mi bed odiechiengʼ; ka piny otimo mudho to giwacho ni, ‘Ler ni machiegni.’
They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
13 Ka dipo ni dala ma ageno dhiye en mana liel kende, kata kapo ni apedho kitandana e mudho, (Sheol h7585)
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, (Sheol h7585)
14 ka dipo ni awacho ne kethruok ni, ‘In e wuonwa,’ kendo aluongo kudni ni, ‘minwa,’ kata ni, ‘nyamera,’
if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
15 to koro geno mara ni kune? En ngʼa manyalo neno geno moro amora ma an-go?
where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
