Job 16
1 Then Job answered and said,
Ndipo Ayubu akajibu na kusema,
2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are all of you all.
“Mimi nimevisikia vitu hivyo vingi; ninyi nyote ni wafariji wenye kuhuzunisha.
3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer?
Maneno yenye upuuzi daima yanaweza kuwa na mwisho? Nini kimeharibika kwenu kwamba mnajibu kama hivi?
4 I also could speak as all of you do: if your soul were in my soul's position, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Mimi pia ningeweza kuzungumza kama ninyi mnavyofanya, kama ninyi mngekuwa katika nafasi yangu; Mimi ningekusanya na kuunganisha maneno pamoja dhidi yenu na kutikisa kichwa changu kwenu ninyi katika dhihaka.
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should subside your grief.
Laiti, jinsi gani Mimi ningewatia moyo na midomo yangu! Jinsi gani faraja kutoka midomo yangu ingenga'risha huzuni yenu!
6 Though I speak, my grief is not subsided: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
Ikiwa Mimi ninazungumza, kuomboleza kwangu hakujasikilizwa; Ikiwa nikiendelea katika kuzungumza, jinsi gani mimi ninaidiwa?
7 But now he has made me weary: you have made desolate all my company.
Lakini sasa, Mungu,
8 And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.
wewe umenifanya mimi kuchoka; wewe umeifanya familia yangu yote kuwa ukiwa. Wewe umenifanya mimi kukauka, ambayo yenyewe ni ushuhuda dhidi yangu mimi; kukonda kwa mwili wangu huinuka dhidi yangu, na kunashuhudia dhidi ya macho yangu.
9 He tears me in his wrath, who hates me: he gnashes upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.
Mungu amenirarua mimi katika ghadhabu yake na amenitesa mimi; Yeye amenisaga mimi kwa meno yake; Adui yangu amenikazia macho yake juu yangu kama yeye anavyonirarua mimi vipande.
10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
Watu wameachama na midomo iliyowazi juu yangu; wamenipiga mimi katika shavu kwa kunitukana; wamekusanyika pamoja kinyume changu mimi.
11 God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
Mungu amenikabidhi mimi juu ya watu wasio mcha Mungu, na kunitupa mimi ndani ya mikono ya watu waovu.
12 I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
Mimi nilikuwa katika wepesi, na yeye amenivunjavunja mimi vipande. Hakika, amenichukua mimi kwa shingo na ameniponda mimi vipande vipande; yeye pia ameniweka mimi juu kama shabaha yake.
13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaves my reins asunder, and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.
Wapiga upinde wake wote wamenizunguka mimi; Mungu huzikata vipande vipande figo zangu, na haniokoi mimi; yeye humwaga nje nyongo yangu juu ya ardhi.
14 He breaks me with breach upon breach, he runs upon me like a giant.
yeye hukanyaga kanyaga kupitia ukuta wangu tena na tena; yeye hukimbia juu yangu mimi kama shujaa.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
nguo ya magunia juu ya ngozi yangu; Mimi nimeisukuma kwa nguvu pembe yangu ndani ya ardhi.
16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Uso wangu ni mwekundu na kuomboleza; juu ya ngozi inayofunika macho kuna kivuli cha mauti
17 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
ingawa hakuna dhuluma katika mikono yangu, na kuomba kwangu ni safi.
18 O earth, cover not you my blood, and let my cry have no place.
Nchi, haifuniki juu damu yangu mimi; acha kulia kwangu kuwe hakuna mahali pa kupumzika.
19 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
Hata sasa, tazama, ushuhuda wangu uko mbinguni; yeye ambaye ashuhudiaye kwa ajili yangu mimi yuko juu.
20 My friends scorn me: but mine eye pours out tears unto God.
Rafiki zangu wananicheka kwa dharau, lakini jicho langu linamwaga machozi kwa Mungu.
21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbour!
Mimi ninaomba ule ushuhuda ulioko mbinguni kumtetea mtu huyu na Mungu kama mwanadamu afanyavyo na jirani yake.
22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Kwa maana wakati miaka michache itakapokuwa imepita, Mimi nitakwenda mahali ambapo mimi sitaweza kurudi.
