Job 18
1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,
Na Suhini Bildad buae se,
2 How long will you continue? forbear, that we also may speak.
“Bere bɛn na wubegyae kasa tenten yi? Dwene ho yiye, na afei yebetumi akasa.
3 For therefore have we been silent before you like brutes?
Adɛn nti na wofa yɛn sɛ anantwi na wususuw sɛ yennim nyansa yi?
4 Anger has possessed you: for what if you should die; would [the earth] under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?
Wo a wode abufuw tetew wo mu nketenkete, wo nti na yemfi asase so anaasɛ wonnwiriw abotan mfi wɔn sibea ana?
5 But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up.
“Omumɔyɛfo kanea adum; na ne gya nnɛw bio.
6 His light [shall be] darkness in [his] habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
Hann a ɛwɔ ne ntamadan mu duru sum; kanea a esi ne ho no dum.
7 Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive [him].
Nʼanammɔntu mu ahoɔden ano bɛbrɛ ase; nʼankasa nhyehyɛe hwe no ase.
8 His foot also has been caught in a snare, [and] let it be entangled in a net.
Nʼanammɔn de no kɔ afiri mu, na okyinkyin kɔtɔ ne tan mu.
9 And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
Afiri so ne nantin na eso ne mu dennen.
10 His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.
Wɔasum no afiri ahintaw wɔ fam; afiri wɔ ne kwan mu.
11 Let pains destroy him round about, and let many [enemies] come about him,
Ahunahuna ma ɔbɔ huboa wɔ ne ho nyinaa na ɛhaw no wɔ nʼanammɔntu biara mu.
12 [vex him] with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.
Atoyerɛnkyɛm kɔn dɔ no; na sɛ ɔhwe ase a, amanehunu retwɛn no.
13 Let the soles of his feet be devoured: and death shall consume his beauty.
Ɛwewe ne honam ani baabi; na owu di kan sɛe nʼakwaa.
14 And let health be utterly banished from his tabernacle, and let distress seize upon him with a charge from the king.
Wɔtwe no fi ne ntamadan bammɔ mu na wɔde no brɛ ahunahunahene.
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle in his night: his excellency shall be sown with brimstone.
Ogya te ne ntamadan mu; na wɔabɔ sufre a ɛredɛw apete nʼatenae.
16 His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.
Ne ntin wuwu wɔ ase na ne mman nso wu wɔ soro.
17 Let his memorial perish out of the earth, and his name shall be publicly cast out.
Wɔnnkae no asase so bio; na onni din wɔ asase so.
18 Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.
Wɔka no fi hann mu kɔ sum mu na wɔpam no fi wiase.
19 He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.
Onni mma anaa nananom wɔ ne nkurɔfo mu, na nʼaseni biara renka wɔ baabi a ɔtenae.
20 But strangers shall dwell in his possessions: the last groaned for him, and wonder seized the first.
Nnipa a wofi atɔe fam ho adwiriw wɔn wɔ nea ato no no ho; na aninyanne bunkam wɔn a wɔwɔ apuei fam no so.
21 These are the houses of the unrighteous, and this is the place of them that know not the Lord.
Ampa ara, sɛɛ na omumɔyɛfo atenae te; sɛɛ ne beae a nea onnim Onyankopɔn no te.”
