Job 4

¹ Eliphaz from Teman talk say, Job, shey you go vex if I talk?

² I no fit keep quiet again.

³ You don teach plenty people and you don give strength to those wey dey weak.

⁴ When person fall, weak and tire, your word dey encourage him to stand.

⁵ Now na your turn to dey for trouble, and you dey shock to face am.

⁶ You worship God, and your life no get blame; and so make you get confidence and hope.

⁷ Shey you fit think of any innocent person wey don ever perish?

⁸ I don see where people dey farm field of evil and plant wickedness like seed; now dem dey harvest wickedness and evil.

⁹ God use vex destroy them, like storm.

¹⁰ Wicked people dey shout like lion, but God silent them and break their teeth.

¹¹ Dem die like lion wey no get anything to kill and chop, and all their pikin scatter.

¹² I hear a message wey dey quiet, my ear catch am like whisper.

¹³ E dey disturb my sleep like nightmare.

¹⁴ I dey shake; all my body dey vibrate with fear.

¹⁵ I feel light breeze touch my face, and the hair wey dey my skin rise up!

¹⁶ I dey see something dey stand for there; I look am, but I no know wetin e be. I con hear a voice tell me say.

¹⁷ “Anybody fit dey righteous for God eye or dey pure for him Creator front?

¹⁸ God no trust him servant wey dey heaven, he dey even find fault with him angel.

¹⁹ You think say him go trust creature wey him make with clay, something wey be dust wey fit destroy like moth?

²⁰ Person fit dey alive for morning, but die before evening and nobody go even know.

²¹ He go lose everything wey him get; he go die before he gain wisdom.”