Job Complains to God
I Am Sick of Life!
1 I am sick of life!
And from my deep despair,
I complain to you, my God.
2 Don't just condemn me!
Point out my sin.
3 Why do you take such delight
in destroying those you created
and in smiling on sinners?
4 Do you look at things
the way we humans do?
5 Is your life as short as ours?
6 Is that why you are so quick
to find fault with me?
7 You know I am innocent,
but who can defend me
against you?
8 Will you now destroy
someone you created?
9 Remember that you molded me
like a piece of clay.
So don't turn me back
into dust once again.
10 As cheese is made from milk,
you created my body
from a tiny drop.
11 Then you tied my bones together
with muscles and covered them
with flesh and skin.
12 You, the source of my life,
showered me with kindness
and watched over me.
You Have Not Explained
13 You have not explained
all of your mysteries,
14 but you catch and punish me
each time I sin.
15 Guilty or innocent,
I am condemned and ashamed
because of my troubles.
16 No matter how hard I try,
you keep hunting me down
like a powerful lion.
17 You never stop accusing me;
you become furious and attack
over and over again.
18 Why did you let me be born?
I would rather have died
before birth
19 and been carried to the grave
without ever breathing.
20 I have only a few days left.
Why don't you leave me alone?
Let me find some relief,
* 21 before I travel to the land
22 of darkness and despair,
the place of no return.
Lu 'Ba Ma 'Bädri ono ya ro Ufune
1 Ori maro te rritiro.
Mapena driovi maro tana ndi ŋgbele ro.
2 Matana ndi yaoso si Lu ri makye, nyuluku ma ko;
Nyiti ta märi! Tase nya'dobe sina malomvo e'diya?
3 Gindi kado miri a'done siomba be
ago ŋgase nyede ni ono mawone ya?
Ago tase lidri takozi'ba korabe ogo ugune moromoro ya?
4 Inye'do mindre ŋga ndi oso lidri ka ondrena be ronye ya?
5 Inye'do u'du miro oriro ndi oso u'du lidri ro oriro 'bädri ya ronye;
kode ndroa miro oso ndroa lidri ro oriro 'bädri ya ronye ya?
6 Nya takozi cini maro vona lobena
ago nya taenji cini maro vona gogona.
7 Mini te ma orivoya taenji ako,
ago 'diaza unina ko ma opane ni mirigyesi.
8 Drí miro be ma ni ago ede ma ni,
ago yauono drina gi alo ono ka ma ufu ni.
9 Miyi tana anjioko mibe ma te ni ludri yasi;
Inye'do nya oye kpa ogone ma logone durufu ro ya?
10 Mi'ba mate ya endre maro roya.
Oso muruṛu kabe a'do leyi ya 'do ronye.
11 Nyatako mate izaro'bo ndi kyini be si,
mi'ba lomvo maro te kowa be ago kyidro be.
12 Nyozo adri te märi ndi ŋgalu 'duro be,
ago taoti miro 'ba ma ni a'done lidriidriro.
13 Caoko nyädämbi ta kwoi te ya miro ya
mäni ndi 'do ro tausu miro owo.
14 Ondro maye takozi te, miyi tana te ago nye'be ma kote ta takozi maro rota.
15 Ondro maye takozi te, 'dooko 'dote rriti yi märi,
oko ondro mayete taŋgye ayani, mäŋgyi drî kote tana ro.
Ma'dote driupi ro ago ma'dete rriti ya.
16 Ondro maye ŋga azate driuŋgyiza oko,
nyogogo ma te oso ibi ronye;
ago miye talaroro te malomvo.
17 Nya tazevoedre ma lomvo kpe kpe;
kyila miro malomvo ugu a'do te ndra;
ondoalo nya ta to'di ora ma gotaza.
18 Lu, mi'ba ma gi'de utine etaya?
Aba madrana ṛo kyeno 'diaza ri ma ondreako.
19 Aba si ṛo ko märi orine lidriidri ro aba ṛo efone ni ya endre ro yasi dori ocine 'budri ya.
20 Inye'do ori maro e'be ṛo ko ti okyena ya? Nye'be ma iṛe tana musu riyä fere robe,
21 teinye oyi ako, vose egoako ana ya,
wari se orivoya uniro ago gbiṛikyiriro ana ya,
22 wari se ŋgätini ro, ago a'doro wiriwiri ro ana ya,
se ŋgaeyi se kigye ana kpa ŋgätini ro.