Job 14

14 ¹"Man, wey woman born, no get plenty days and im full of wahala. ²E dey come up like flower and e dey dry; e dey run comot like shadow and e no dey last. ³You dey fix your eye on person like dis? And you dey bring me come judgement with you? ⁴Who fit bring clean thing comot from dirty thing? Nobody. ⁵Since im days don already set, di number of im months dey with you, and you don put mark wey e no fit cross, ⁶look comot from am, make e fit rest, till e don finish im day like worker wey dem hire.

⁷"For tree get hope: if dem cut am down, e go grow again, and im young branch no go fail. ⁸Even if im root don old for inside ground and im stump die for inside soil, ⁹once e smell water, e go bud and bring out branch like new plant. ¹⁰But man dey die and dem lay am down; person breathe im last breath, and where e dey? ¹¹As water dey disappear from lake, and river dey waste away and dry up, ¹²na so man dey lie down and e no dey rise; till heaven no go dey again, e no go wake or make dem rouse am from im sleep.

¹³"If only you go hide me for grave, cover me till your anger pass, set fix time for me, and remember me! ¹⁴If man die, e go live again? All di days of my hard work I go wait, till my new life come. ¹⁵You go call, and I go answer you; you go long for di work of your hand. ¹⁶For dat time you go count my step; you no go dey watch my sin. ¹⁷You go seal my rebellion inside bag, and you go cover my sin.

¹⁸"But as mountain dey fall and scatter away, and dem move rock from im place, ¹⁹as water dey wear di stone away and im flood dey wash away di soil of di ground, na so you dey destroy man im hope. ²⁰You overpower am forever, and e pass on; you spoil im face and send am comot. ²¹Im sons come get honour, and e no know am; dem bring dem low, and e no notice. ²²Na only di pain of im own body e dey feel, and na only imsef e dey cry for."