Job 4
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Tongan Bible, Revised West Version
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
1Pea toki leaange ai ʻa Elifasi mei Timani, ʻo ne pehē,
2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
2“Kapau te mau ʻahiʻahi ke lea kiate koe, te ke ʻita ai? Ka ko hai te ne faʻa taʻofi ia ʻe ia mei he lea?
3Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
3Vakai, kuo ke akonekina ʻae tokolahi, pea kuo ke fakamālohiʻi ʻae nima vaivai.
4Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
4Naʻe poupou hake ʻe hoʻo ngaahi lea ʻaia naʻe meimei hinga, pea kuo ke fakamālohiʻi ʻae foʻi tui vaivai.
5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
5Ka ko eni kuo hoko ia kiate koe, pea ke vaivai; ʻoku ala ia kiate koe, pea ʻoku ke puputuʻu.
6Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
6He kofaʻā eni hoʻo manavahē, hoʻo falala, hoʻo ʻamanaki lelei, mo e angatonu ʻa ho ngaahi hala?
7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
7“ʻOku ou kole kiate koe, ke ke fakamanatu, ko hai ha taʻeangahala naʻe ʻauha? Pea ko e potu fē naʻe motuhi ai ʻae māʻoniʻoni?
8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
8ʻIo, ʻo hangē pe ko ia kuo u mamata ki ai, ko kinautolu ʻoku keli ʻae angahala, mo tūtuuʻi ʻae fai kovi, ʻoku nau utu pe ia.
9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
9ʻI he ifi ʻae ʻOtua ʻoku nau ʻauha, pea ko e mānava ʻo hono fofonga ʻoku nau ʻosiʻosingamālie ai.
10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
10ʻOku fakangata ʻae ngungulu ʻoe laione, mo e leʻo ʻoe laione fekai, pea ʻoku mafesifesi ʻae kau nifo ʻoe fanga laione mui.
11The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
11ʻOku ʻauha ʻae motuʻa laione ko e masiva meʻa kai, pea ko e fānganga ʻoe laione mālohi kuo fakahēʻi mamaʻo.
12Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
12“Ko eni, naʻe ai ha meʻa naʻe ʻomi fufū kiate au, pea naʻe ongoʻi ʻe hoku telinga ʻae fafana ʻo ia.
13In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
13ʻI he ngaahi mahalo mei he ngaahi meʻa hā mai ʻoe pō, ʻoka tō ʻae mohe maʻu ki he kakai,
14fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.
14Naʻe hoko mai kiate au ʻae manavahē, mo e tetetete, ʻaia naʻe fakangalulu ai hoku ngaahi hui kotoa pē.
15Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
15Pea naʻe toki māʻali ai ʻae laumālie ʻi hoku ʻao; pea naʻe vavana hake ʻae fulufulu ʻo hoku sino:
16It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:
16Naʻe tuʻu mai ia, ka naʻe ʻikai te u ʻilo hono anga: naʻe ʻi hoku ʻao ʻae fakatātā, naʻe longo pe, pea ne u ongoʻi ʻae leʻo, naʻe pehē,
17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
17“ʻE faʻa angatonu lahi hake ʻae tangata ki hono ʻOtua? ʻE māʻoniʻoni lahi hake ʻae tangata ki hono Tupuʻanga?
18If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
18Vakai, ʻoku ʻikai te ne falala ki heʻene kau tamaioʻeiki, pea ko ʻene kau ʻāngelo ʻoku ʻikai ke ne fakamālō ki ai.
19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
19Kae huanoa ʻakinautolu ʻoku nofo ʻi he ngaahi fale ʻumea, ko honau tuʻunga ʻoku ʻi he efu, pea ʻoku taʻomia ʻakinautolu ʻo hangē pe ko e ane?
20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
20ʻOku tā hifo ʻakinautolu mei he pongipongi ʻo aʻu ki he efiafi: ʻoku nau ʻauha ʻo taʻetuku, ka ʻoku ʻikai tokanga ki ai ha taha.
21Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
21Pea ʻikai ʻoku mole atu ʻae lelei kotoa pē ʻoku ʻiate kinautolu? ʻOku nau mate, ʻio, ʻi he taʻehapoto.’
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