Job 19
1 Then Job answered and said,
Ndipo Ayubu akajibu na kusema,
2 How long will all of you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
lini mtanifanya mimi kuteseka na kunivunja vunja mimi vipande vipnde kwa maneno?
3 These ten times have all of you reproached me: all of you are not ashamed that all of you make yourselves strange to me.
Mara kumi hivi mmenishutumu mimi; ninyi hamuoni aibu kwamba mmenitendea mimi kwa ukatili.
4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remains with myself.
Kama ni dhahiri kweli mimi nimekosa, makosa yangu hubaki kuwa wajibu wangu.
5 If indeed all of you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Kama ni dhahiri ninyi mtajiinua juu yangu mimi na kuutumia uvumilivu wangu kunipinga mimi,
6 Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.
kisha ninyi mnapaswa kutambua kwamba Mungu amefanya mabaya kwangu mimi na amenikamata mimi katika mtego wake yeye.
7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Tazama, Mimi ninalia kwa sauti, “dhuluma!” lakini sipati jibu. Mimi ninaita kwa ajili ya msaada, lakini hakuna haki.
8 He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
Yeye ameiwekea ukuta njia yangu, ili kwamba mimi nisiweze kupita, na yeye ameweka giza katika njia yangu.
9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Yeye ameniondoa Mimi kutoka katika utukufu wangu, na ameichukua taji kutoka kwenye kichwa changu mimi.
10 He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope has he removed like a tree.
Yeye amenivunjavunja mimi chini kwa kila upande, na Mimi nimetoweka; yeye amelikokota juu tumaini langu kama mti.
11 He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me unto him as one of his enemies.
Yeye pia ameiongeza ghadhabu yake dhidi yangu mimi; yeye ananihesabu mimi kama mmoja wa adui zake.
12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and camp round about my tabernacle.
Majeshi yake huja juu pamoja; wao wananikosesha tumaini kwa kuniteka nyara kwa kundi kubwa kupigana na mimi wakizunguka hema yangu.
13 He has put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily cut off from me.
Yeye amewaweka ndugu zangu mbali kutoka kwangu mimi; watu wangu wa karibu wote wamejitenga kutoka kwangu mimi.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Vizazi vyangu vimeniangusha mimi; rafiki zangu wa karibu wamenisahamu mimi.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an foreigner in their sight.
Wale ambao mwanzoni walikaa kama wageni ndani ya nyumba yangu na watumishi wangu wa kike, hunihesabu mimi kama mgeni. Mimi nimekuwa mgeni katika macho yao.
16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I implored him with my mouth.
Mimi ninamwita mtumishi wangu, lakini yeye hanipi jibu japokuwa Mimi nimemsihi yeye kwa midomo yangu.
17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I implored for the children's sake of mine own body.
Pumzi yangu mimi ni chukizo kwa mke wangu; Hata mimi ninachukiwa na wale ambao walizaliwa kutoka katika tumbo la mama yangu mimi.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.
Hata watoto wachanga wananichukia mimi; ikiwa Mimi nitainuka kuzungumza, wao huzungumza dhidi yangu mimi.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Rafiki zangu wote ninaowazoea wananichukia sana mimi; wale ambao Mimi ninawapenda wamegeuka kinyume na mimi.
20 My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Mifupa yangu inashikamana kwenye ngozi yangu na kwenye mwili wangu; Mimi ninaishi tu kwa ngozi ya meno yangu.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O all of you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
Iweni na huruma juu yangu mimi, muwe na huruma juu yangu mimi, rafiki zangu, kwa maana mkono wa Mungu umenigusa mimi.
22 Why do all of you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Kwa nini mnanitesa mimi kama ninyi mlikuwa Mungu? kwa nini hamjatosheka bado kwa kula mwili wangu?
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Laiti, hayo maneno yangu yangekuwa yameandikwa chini! Laiti, hayo yangekuwa yameandikwa katika kitabu!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Laiti, kwa kalamu ya chuma na risasi hayo yangekuwa yamechorwa katika mwamba siku zote!
25 For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Lakini kama ilivyo kwangu mimi, Mimi ninafahamu kwamba mkombozi wangu anaishi, na kwamba hata mwisho atasimama katika nchi;
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
baada ya ngozi yangu, hivyo ndivyo, mwili huu, unaharibiwa, ndipo katika mwili wangu mimi Nitamwona Mungu.
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Mimi nitamwona yeye kwa macho yangu mwenyewe-Mimi, na siyo mtu mwingine. Moyo wangu hushindwa ndani yangu mimi.
28 But all of you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Kama mnatasema, 'Kwa jinsi gani tutamtesa yeye? Mzizi wa mahangaiko yake unakaa katika yeye;
29 Be all of you afraid of the sword: for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that all of you may know there is a judgment.
ndipo uwe umeogopeshwa kwa ule upanga, kwa sababu ghadhabu huleta hukumu ya upanga, hivyo kwamba wewe uweze kutambua kuna hukumu.”
