Job 17
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Tongan Bible, Revised West Version
1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
1“ʻOku ʻeho ʻeku mānava, kuo ʻosi hoku ngaahi ʻaho, ʻoku tali ʻae ngaahi luo kiate au.
2Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.
2ʻIkai ʻoku ʻiate au ʻae kau manuki? Pea ʻikai ʻoku nofomaʻu ʻi hoku ʻao ʻenau ʻahiʻahi kovi?
3Give now a pledge, be surety for me with Thyself; who else is there that will strike hands with me?
3“Ko eni, ke tuku hifo, ke ai haʻaku fakamoʻoni meiate koe; ko hai ia te ma tā nima mo au?
4For Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt Thou not exalt them.
4He kuo ke fufū honau loto mei he ʻilo: ko ia ʻe ʻikai ai te ke hakeakiʻi ʻakinautolu.
5He that denounceth his friends for the sake of flattery, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
5Ko ia ʻoku ne lea lapu ki hono kāinga, ʻe vaivai ʻae mata ʻo ʻene fānau ʻaʻana.
6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become one in whose face they spit.
6“Kuo ne tuku au ko e taukaeʻanga ʻoe kakai; ka naʻaku tatau muʻa mo e meʻa faiva.
7Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.
7Kuo nenefu hoku mata ko e meʻa ʻi he mamahi, pea ko e ata pe ʻa hoku kupuʻi sino kotoa pē.
8Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.
8ʻE ofo ʻae kakai angatonu ʻi he meʻa ni, pea ko e taʻeangahala te ne ueʻi ia ki he mālualoi.
9Yet the righteous holdeth on his way, and he that hath clean hands waxeth stronger and stronger.
9ʻE fakakukafi foki ʻae māʻoniʻoni ʻi hono hala, pea ko ia ʻoku nima maʻa ʻe fakahoko ʻe ia ʻae mālohi ki he mālohi.
10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now; and I shall not find a wise man among you.
10Ka ko kimoutolu kotoa pē, mou foki ʻo ʻalu: he ʻoku ʻikai te u faʻa ʻilo ha taha ʻoku poto ʻiate kimoutolu.
11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
11Kuo ʻosi hoku ngaahi ʻaho, kuo motuhi ʻeku ngaahi tuʻutuʻuni, ʻio, ʻaia naʻaku loto ki ai.
12They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.
12ʻOku nau liliu ʻae pō ko e ʻaho: ʻoku fuonounou ʻae maama ko e meʻa ʻi he fakapoʻuli.
13If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;
13Kapau te u tatali, ko hoku fale ʻae faʻitoka pē: kuo ngaohi hoku mohenga ʻi he fakapoʻuli.
14If I have said to corruption: 'Thou art my father', to the worm: 'Thou art my mother, and my sister';
14Kuo u pehē ki he popo, ‘Ko ʻeku tamai koe:’ pea ki he kelemutu, ‘Ko ʻeku faʻē,’ mo ‘hoku tuofefine.’
15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
15Pea kofaʻā eni ʻa ʻeku ʻamanaki lelei? ʻIo, ko ʻeku ʻamanaki lelei, ko hai te ne mamata ki ai?
16They shall go down to the bars of the nether-world, when we are at rest together in the dust.
16ʻE ʻalu hifo ia ki he ngaahi tāpuni ʻoe luo, ʻoka tau ka mālōlō fakataha ʻi he efu.
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