Job 22

¹ Eliphaz from Teman con answer him say:

² Shey God need our help? Even those wey wise pass no dey useful to God.

³ Shey God dey get any gain as you dey do right? Shey Almighty God dey gain anything if you follow him?

⁴ Why God dey blame and punish you? Shey na because you dey worship him?

⁵ No, na because you dey sin too much; na because of all the evil wey you do.

⁶ To make your brother pay you back the money wey him owe, you take him cloth away and leave am with nothing to wear.

⁷ You no gree give water to those wey don tire, and you no feed those wey dey hungry.

⁸ You use the power and position wey you get to take over all the land.

⁹ You no only refuse to help widow, but you rob and treat orphan bad too.

¹⁰ So now danger dey all around you, and you go dey fear of full.

¹¹ E don grow dark so tey you no fit see, and flood don cover you.

¹² No be God dey live for highest heaven and dey look down on stars, even though dem dey high?

¹³ And you still dey ask say, “Wetin God know? Na cloud dey hide him - how he fit judge us?

¹⁴ You think say thick cloud no dey allow him to dey see, as he dey waka for sky.

¹⁵ You don ready to walk for the way wey evil people dey always follow?

¹⁶ Even before their time come, flood don wash them away.

¹⁷ These na those wey reject God and believe say him no go do anything to them.

¹⁸ And yet na God still dey make them prosper - I no fit understand how the wicked dey think.

¹⁹ Good people dey happy and innocent dey laugh when dem see as wicked people dey suffer.

²⁰ Everything wey wicked people get don destroy, and fire dey burn anything wey remain.

²¹ Job, make peace with God now and stop to dey treat him like enemy; if you do so, him go bless you.

²² Accept the teaching wey him dey give; keep him word for your heart.

²³ Yes, make you return to God and put end to all evil wey dem dey do for your house.

²⁴ Begin dey think of your gold as dirty; throway your gold wey fine pass like rock from under stream.

²⁵ Make Almighty God be your gold, and make him be silver, wey don gather for you.

²⁶ Then you go always trust God and see say na him be the source of your joy.

²⁷ When you pray, him go answer you, and you go keep the promise wey you don make.

²⁸ You go make am in everything you do, and light go shine for your way.

²⁹ God dey bring down those wey proud and him dey save the humble.

³⁰ Him go save you if you dey innocent, if wetin you do dey right.