< Job 17 >

1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
Efa ho ritra ny aiko; Efa milopilopy ny androko; Efa miandry ahy ny fasana.
2 [Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation?
Eny, fanesoana tokoa no manodidina ahy, ary tsy maintsy mijery ny filany ady amiko aho.
3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who [is] he [that] will strike hands with me?
Masìna Hianao, aoka ny tenanao ihany no hiantoka ahy aminao; Fa iza moa no hety hiantoka ahy?
4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].
Fa ny fon’ ireto dia voahidinao tsy hidiran’ ny fahalalana; koa izany no tsy hanandratanao azy.
5 He that speaketh flattery to [his] friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Izay manolotra ny sakaizany ho babo, dia ho pahina kosa ny mason’ ny zanany.
6 He hath made me also a by-word of the people; and in former time I was as a tabret.
Ary efa nanao ahy ho ambentinteny amin’ ny firenena Izy, ka rorany mandrakariva ny tavako.
7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shade.
Efa pahina ny masoko noho ny alahelo; Ary efa toy ny aloka ny momba ny tenako rehetra.
8 Upright [men] shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Ankona noho izany ny olona mahitsy, ary ny tsy manan-tsiny mihendratra mahita ny mpihatsaravela-tsihy.
9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Fa ny marina mifikitra tsara amin’ ny halehany, ary izay madio tanana no hitombo hery.
10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find [one] wise [man] among you.
Avia avokoa indray ary ianareo rehetra tsy mahita izay olon-kendry eo aminareo aho.
11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.
Mihelina ny androko, voaongotra ny fikasako. Dia izay hevitra fikirin’ ny foko indrindra;
12 They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.
Ny alina ataon’ ireny ho antoandro, ary ny mazava ho efa akaiky, nefa tamy ihany ny maizina.
13 If I wait, the grave [is] my house: I have made my bed in the darkness. (Sheol h7585)
Raha mbola misy antenaiko, dia ny fiainan-tsi-hita fonenako ihany; Ao amin’ ny maizina no hamelarako ny fandriako. (Sheol h7585)
14 I have said to corruption, Thou [art] my father: to the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister.
Ny fasana no nantsoiko hoe: Raiko ianao; Ary ny kankana: Reniko sy anabaviko ianao.
15 And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?
Fa aiza ary ny fanantenako? Ary iza no mahita azy?
16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when [our] rest together [is] in the dust. (Sheol h7585)
Midìna any amin’ ny vavahadin’ ny fiainan-tsi-hita izany, raha mba hahita fitsaharana ao amin’ ny vovoka aho. (Sheol h7585)

< Job 17 >