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The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible

Old Testament

Read each verse in English beside its African Kalanga equivalent.

Job 25English

Jobe 25African Kalanga

  1. English1

    Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

    African Kalanga

    Ipapo Bhilidadi we N'shuhi kadabila eti,

  2. English2

    “Dominion and awe belong to God; he establishes order in the heights of heaven.

    African Kalanga

    “Mbuso wose ne kutetiwa ngekwe Ndzimu, unothama kuti kube ne mbakiso mu mazhuzhugwi awe kudzimu.

  3. English3

    Can his forces be numbered? Upon whom does his light not rise?

    African Kalanga

    Apa mbalo ye babhayani bawo inobalika kene? Ndiani usingayedzegwe nge tjedza tjawo kene?

  4. English4

    How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

    African Kalanga

    Ngono dumbu nthu ungalulwama mbeli kwe Ndzimu tjini wali? Apa iye wakazwagwa nge nkadzi ungabe wakatjenapala tjini wali?

  5. English5

    If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes,

    African Kalanga

    Bonani, ne mwedzi autopenya ne nyenyedzi dumbu dzakatundubala mu mesho awo.

  6. English6

    how much less man, who is but a maggot–a son of man, who is only a worm!”

    African Kalanga

    Ngono nthu iye kee, gonye koga nkololo we nthu itjo ikonyana koga kee?”

Source: The English-Kalanga Bilingual Language Learning Bible, Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo, 2026. This online edition was extracted and reformatted from the PDF edition. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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