Job 14

¹ All of us, we be human being. Our life short and e dey full of trouble.

² We dey grow and die quick like flower; we dey disappear like shadow.

³ God, shey you go even look me, or put me for court and judge me?

⁴ Nothing wey clean fit come from anything wey no clean like human being.

⁵ The length of our lives don dey fixed already - the amount of month we go live. You don settle am, and nobody fit change am.

⁶ No look away from us make you leave us alone; make we enjoy our hard life - if we fit.

⁷ Hope dey for tree wey dem don cut down; e fit come back to life and grow.

⁸ Even if the root don grow old, and the tail end don die for ground,

⁹ e go grow like young plant with water.

¹⁰ But people die, and na their end be that; dem die, and where dem con dey?

¹¹ Like river wey stop to dey run, and lake wey dey dry.

¹² People dey die, dem no dey rise again. Dem no go ever wake up when sky still dey; dem no go ever wake from their sleep.

¹³ I wish say you go hide me for world of the dead; make e hide me until you no dey vex for me again, and con set time to remember me.

¹⁴ If people die, dem fit come back to life? But I go wait for better time, I go wait till the time of trouble don end.

¹⁵ Then you go call, and I go answer, and you go happy for me, wey you create.

¹⁶ Then you go watch every step wey I take, but you no go dey track my sin.

¹⁷ You go forgive them and put them away; you go wipe out all the wrong wey I don do.

¹⁸ E get time wey mountain fall and strong cliff dey move away.

¹⁹ Water go wash down rock, and heavy rain go wash away soil; naso you spoil our hope for life.

²⁰ You dey defeat us and send us commot forever; you dey use death change the way we look.

²¹ Our children dey win honor, but we no know about am. If our son do wetin dey wrong, we no go see am.

²² We dey only feel the pain wey dey our body and pain wey dey our mind.