UJobe 10
1 “Senginengwa yimpilo yami; ngakho sengizasola ngingasathikazi ngithulule ubuhlungu bomphefumulo wami.
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 Ngizakuthi kuNkulunkulu: Ungangilahli, kodwa ngitshela ukuthi ungethesa cala bani.
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why thou contendest with me.
3 Kuyakuthabisa na ukungizwisa ubuhlungu, ukulahla umsebenzi wezandla zakho, ikanti uyahlekelela ngamacebo ababi?
Is it good to thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
4 Ulamehlo enyama na? Ubona njengokubona kwabantu na?
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
5 Insuku zakho ziyafanana lezabantu yini, kumbe iminyaka yakho njengeyomuntu yini,
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
6 osungaze uphenye iziphambeko zami njalo ulandelele isono sami,
That thou enquirest after my iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
7 loba wena ukwazi ukuthi angilacala lokuthi kakho ongangikhulula esandleni sakho?
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thy hand.
8 Izandla zakho zangibumba zangenza. Pho usuzaphenduka ungibhidlize na?
Thy hands have made me and fashioned me in all my parts; yet thou dost destroy me.
9 Khumbula ukuthi wangibumba njengomdaka. Pho usuzabuye ungiphendule uthuli na?
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
10 Kawungichithanga yini njengochago njalo wangijiyisa njengolaza,
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
11 wangigqokisa ngesikhumba lenyama, wangithungela ndawonye ngamathambo lemisipha?
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
12 Wangipha ukuphila wangitshengisa umusa, ukunanza kwakho kwawelusa umoya wami.
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy care hath preserved my spirit.
13 Kodwa lokhu yikho owakufihla enhliziyweni yakho, njalo ngiyazi ukuthi lokhu kwakukhona engqondweni yakho:
And these things hast thou hid in thy heart: I know that this is with thee.
14 Nxa ngona, ngabe wawungikhangele wawungeke wekela ukona kwami kungajeziswa.
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from my iniquity.
15 Aluba ngilecala, maye mina! Laloba ngimsulwa, akukho engingakwenza, ngoba ngiyafa ngenhloni njalo ngiyagalula ekuhluphekeni kwami.
If I be wicked, woe to me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou my affliction;
16 Nxa ngingathi ngivusa ikhanda ungicwathela njengesilwane uphinde utshengise amandla akho esabekayo kimi.
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
17 Uletha ofakazi abatsha abangilahlayo, wandise ulaka lwakho kimi; amabutho akho angihlasela amaviyo ngamaviyo.
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thy indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
18 Pho kungani wangikhupha esibelethweni na? Ngifisa ukuthi ngabe ngafa ngingakabonwa laloba yiliphi ilihlo.
Why then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19 Aluba ngavele ngingabi ngophilayo, loba ngathwalwa ngisuka esibelethweni ngasiwa ethuneni!
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Insuku zami ezilutshwane kaseziphelile nje? Akungifulathele ukuze ngizuze umzuzwana wentokozo nje
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21 ngingakayi lapho okungabuywa khona, elizweni lobumnyama lethunzi elikhulu,
Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22 elizweni lobusuku obujule ngempela, elethunzi elinzima lengxubevange, lapho lokukhanya kunjengobumnyama.”
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
