BEGINNING OF THE UTENZI ON JOB.
My brother give me paper
And good black ink
And a pen of reed
Which has been selected.
And let me write, inditing
A story from the Arabic
With an account of Job,
The prophet of the Lord of glory.
I love to inform you,
Explaining from the Arabic,
In our language manifestly
Where it was not clear.
And know ye its meaning,
To explain it to our friends,
There are many people
Who do not know Arabic.
Thus it is that it pleases me
To explain in our language,
By speaking and writing,
What is in a book.
Telling it in Swahili.
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