The Debate
Job's Outburst
1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Baada ya hayo Ayubu akafunua kinywa chake, na kuilaani siku yake.
2 And Job spake, and said,
Ayubu akajibu, na kusema;
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born,
And the night in which it was said,
There is a man child conceived.
Na ipotelee mbali ile siku niliyozaliwa mimi, Na ule usiku uliosema, Mtoto mume ametungishwa mimba.
4 Let that day be darkness;
Let not God regard it from above,
Neither let the light shine upon it.
Siku hiyo na iwe giza; Mungu asiiangalie toka juu, Wala mwanga usiiangazie.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it;
Let a cloud dwell upon it;
Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Ishikwe na giza, giza tupu, kuwa yake; Wingu na likae juu yake; Chote kiifanyacho siku kuwa giza na kiitishe.
6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it;
Let it not be joined unto the days of the year,
Let it not come into the number of the months.
Tena usiku huo, na ushikwe na giza kuu; Usihesabiwe katika siku za mwaka; Wala kutiwa katika hesabu ya miezi.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary,
Let no joyful voice come therein.
Tazama, usiku huo na uwe tasa; Wala isiwe ndani yake sauti ya shangwe.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day,
Who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Na waulaani hao waulaanio mchana, Hao walio tayari kumwamsha huyo lewiathani.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark;
Let it look for light, but have none;
Neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Nyota za mapambazuko yake na ziwe giza; Na utafute mwanga lakini usiupate; Wala usiyaone makope ya asubuhi;
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb,
Nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Kwa sababu haukuifunga milango ya tumbo la mamangu. Wala kunifichia taabu machoni.
11 Why died I not from the womb?
Why did I not give up the ghost
When I came out of the belly?
Mbona si kufa mimi tokea mimbani? Mbona nisitoe roho hapo nilipotoka tumboni?
12 Why did the knees prevent me?
Or why the breasts that I should suck?
Mbona hayo magoti kunipokea? Au hayo maziwa, hata nikanyonya?
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet,
I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Maana hapo ningelala na kutulia; Ningelala usingizi; na kupata kupumzika;
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth,
Which built desolate places for themselves;
Pamoja na wafalme na washauri wa dunia, Hao waliojijengea maganjoni;
15 Or with princes that had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver:
Au pamoja na wakuu wenye dhahabu, Waliozijaza fedha nyumba zao;
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been;
As infants which never saw light.
Au, kama kuzikwa mimba iliyoharibika, nisingekuwako; Kama wachanga wasiouona mwanga kabisa.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling;
And there the weary be at rest.
Huko waovu huacha kusumbua; Huko nako hao waliochoka wapumzika
18 There the prisoners rest together;
They hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Huko wafungwa waona raha pamoja; Hawaisikii sauti yake msimamizi.
19 The small and great are there;
And the servant is free from his master.
Wakuu na wadogo wako huko; Mtumishi yu huru kwa bwana wake.
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,
And life unto the bitter in soul;
Mbona yeye aliye mashakani kupewa mwanga, Na hao wenye uchungu rohoni kupewa uhai;
21 Which long for death, but it cometh not;
And dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Ambao wangojea mauti, lakini hawayapati; Na kuyachimbulia zaidi ya kutafuta hazina iliyostirika;
22 Which rejoice exceedingly,
And are glad, when they can find the grave?
Ambao wafurahi mno, Na kushangilia watakapoliona kaburi?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid,
And whom God hath hedged in?
Kwa nini mtu aliyezibiwa njia kupewa mwanga, Ambaye Mungu amemzingira kwa ukingo?
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat,
And my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Kwani kuugua kwangu kwaja kana kwamba ni chakula, Na kunguruma kwangu kumemiminika kama maji.
25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,
And that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
Maana jambo hilo nichalo hunipata, Nalo linitialo hofu hunijilia.
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet;
Yet trouble came.
Mimi sioni raha, wala situlii, wala kupumzika; Lakini huja taabu.
