Joba 24
1 Tsy mikafitse amy El-Sadai o sa-o, Akore te tsy mahaoniñe o andro’eo o mahafohiñe azeo?
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2 Ao ty mameve vorovoro: ie mitavañe naho mampibotseke lia-raike.
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
3 Roahe’ iareo añe ty borìkem-bode-rae, vaho rambese’ iereo ho tsoake ty vosi’ i vantotsey.
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4 Ampisitahe’ iereo amy lalañey ty poie’e; mitrao-pietake o rarake an-tane atoio.
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5 Hehe te hoe borìke-ly an-dratraratra añe ty irembea’ iareo mitsindroke; hera hamahan-kaneñe amo ana’eo ty fatrambey.
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising early for a prey: the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
6 Tatahe’ iereo ze haneñe an-kivok’ ao, vaho timpone’ iereo ty an-tanem-bahen-do-tserek’ ao.
They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7 Miboridañe t’ie mialeñe, tsy aman-tsaroñe, tsy amam-bodo amy hanintsiñey.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
8 Len-oram-bohitse iereo, vihineñe ty lamilamy amy t’ie tsy amam-pipalirañe.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
9 Eo ty mitavam-bode-rae am-patroa vaho andrambesan-tsoak’ ty rarake.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10 Ampandenàñe tsy aman-tsikiñe ty miboridañe, tavane’ iareo ty taho’ o salikoeñeo,
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11 ie mamboatse menake an-kijoly ao; mandia am-piriritan-divay, f’ie maran-drano.
Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12 Miñeoñeoñe an-drova ao ondatio, mikoiake ty fiai’ o fereo; f’ie tsy anesehan’ Añahare hagegeañe.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God lays not folly to them.
13 Mpiamo mpiola amo hazavàñeo, tsy fohi’ iareo o sata’eo, tsy imoneña’ iareo o lala’eo.
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14 Mitroatse te mazava i mpañoho-dozay, hanjevoa’e o rarakeo naho o poie’eo, ie haleñe manao malaso.
The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15 Mandiñe mielizava ty masom-panao havambañe, hoe re: tsy honiñam-pihaino, mbore honohonoe’e ty tarehe’e.
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises his face.
16 Ie añ’ieñe ro mampigorabak’ anjomba, antoandro migabeñe ao: tsy fohi’ iereo ty hazavàñe.
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17 Talinjom-piantantiritse ama’e ty maraindray: mahazats’ aze ty fampangebahebahan- kamoromoroñañe.
For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18 Vore mikafo an-drano eo iereo; fatra an-tane ty anjara’e, tsy itsileañe ty mb’an-tanem-bahe’e.
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholds not the way of the vineyards.
19 Mamotseke ranom-panala ty tariñandroke naho ty hain-tane: Izay ka ty kibory amo manan-tahiñeo. (Sheol h7585)
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those which have sinned. (Sheol h7585)
20 Handikok’ aze i hoviñey; an-kaehake ty fihinanan’ oletse aze ampara’ te tsy tiahy ka: ie pozaheñe hoe hatae i lo-tserekey.
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
21 Joie’e i betsiterakey, tsy soa’e ty vantotse.
He evil entreats the barren that bears not: and does not good to the widow.
22 Kozozote’e amañ-ozatse ty fanalolahy; mitroatse re le iatoa’ ia ty havelo’e.
He draws also the mighty with his power: he rises up, and no man is sure of life.
23 Tolora’e fañarovañe, le iatoa’iareo; mbore jilove’e o lala’iareoo.
Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he rests; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24 Onjoneñe betebeteke iereo, naho mifiotse añe; afotsake naho atontoñe ao manahake o ila’e iabio; vaho miheatse hoe t’ie lengom-boto-tsako.
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
25 Aa naho tsy Izay, ia ty hamente t’ie mavande hampikoake i entakoy?
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
