Eliphaz Talk Again
Eliphaz finally cook up charges: say Job strip poor people cloth, refuse water give people wey don tire, send widows go with empty hand. Im tell Job make im surrender, make im lay im gold for dust and make the Almighty be im gold. The advice sound fine, but the accusation na lie.
22 1Then Eliphaz di Temanite answer say: 2"Person fit help God for anytin? Na im own sef di wise man dey help. 3E dey sweet God Almighty if you dey do correct-and-holy way, abi e dey gain am if you dey live wey blame no dey? 4Na becos you dey fear am make e dey correct you come carry you go judgment? 5No be say your wickedness big well well? No be say your sin no get end? 6Becos you collect security from your brothers for notin, come strip cloth comot for people wey dey naked. 7You no give person wey don tire water make e drink, you hide bread from person wey hungry dey catch. 8Na di man wey get power own di land, na di person wey dey favour live inside am. a a v8 Eliphaz dey imply say Job take land as tin wey na only di powerful people own, come leave poor people wit notin. 9You send widows comot wit empty hand, come break di arm of pikin wey no get papa. 10Na im make trap surround you, na im make sudden fear catch you kpatakpata; 11abi darkness, wey make you no fit see, come flood of water cover you. 12No be say God dey for di high place of heaven? See how di star wey high pass dey high reach! 13But still you dey talk say, 'Wetin God sabi? E fit judge through dis kind deep darkness? 14Thick cloud cover am wey make e no fit see, e dey waka for di top of heaven.' 15You go still follow di ancient road wey wicked people don waka? 16Dem carry dem comot before dem time, water wash dem foundation comot for flood. 17Dem tell God say, 'Leave us alone! Wetin God Almighty fit do us?' 18But na im fill dem house wit good tins—so I no want anytin to do wit di plan of di wicked. 19Di people wey dey do correct-and-holy way see am come dey glad; di people wey clean dey laugh di wicked, dey talk say, 20'For true, dem don destroy our enemies, come fire don chop wetin dem leave behind.' 21Submit to God now make you get peace wit am; na so good go come meet you. 22Collect teaching from im mouth, come store im words for inside your heart. 23If you turn come back to God Almighty, dem go restore you; if you drive wickedness comot far from your house, 24come lay your gold for inside dust, di gold of Ophir among di stone for river bed, b b v24 Ophir na famous place for di ancient world as di place wey di finest gold dey comot. 25then God Almighty imsef go be your gold, your silver wey dey precious. 26Then you go dey enjoy God Almighty come lift your face up to God. 27You go pray to am, e go hear you, come you go do wetin you promise. 28Wetin you decide go happen, come light go shine for your road. 29When dem bring other people down come you talk say, 'Lift dem up!', e go save di people wey dem cast down. 30E go even deliver di person wey no clean, e go deliver am through di cleanness of your hand."
