¹Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

¹Zakaj ni vnaprej določil Vsemogočni sodnih rokov? in zakaj ne vidijo, kateri ga poznajo, njegovih sodnih dni?

²Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

²Krivičniki prestavljajo mejnike, plenijo črede in jih sebi pasejo.

³They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

³Osle sirotam odganjajo in vdovam jemljejo v zastavo vole.

⁴They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

⁴Ubožce pehajo s cest, krotki, kar jih je v deželi, se morajo skrivati vsi.

⁵Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

⁵Glej, kakor divji osli v pustinji hodijo ubožci na delo svoje, marljivo iščoč plena: puščava jim daje hrane za njih otroke.

⁶They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

⁶Na polju žanjejo žito krivičnikovo in paberkujejo v njegovem vinogradu.

⁷They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

⁷Nagi leže vso noč, ker nimajo obleke, in nimajo odeje v mrazu.

⁸They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

⁸Lijak z gora jih premoči, in ker nimajo strehe, se oklepajo skalovja. –

⁹They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

⁹Siroto od prsi trgajo krivičniki, in kar ima na sebi ubožec, jemljejo v zastavo. –

¹⁰They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

¹⁰Goli hodijo, brez oblačila, in lačni nosijo bogatinom snope;

¹¹Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

¹¹v njih hramih jim morajo delati olje, tlačijo v tlačilnici in žeje se suše.

¹²Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

¹²Iz mesta se sliši ječanje umirajočih, in duša ranjencev vpije. A Bog tega ne šteje za nepristojnost!

¹³They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

¹³Drugi pa so sovražniki svetlobe: njenih potov ne poznajo, na njenih stezah ne ostajajo.

¹⁴The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

¹⁴Ob jutranjem svitu vstaja razbojnik, mori ubožca in potrebnega, in po noči je kakor tat.

¹⁵The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

¹⁵In oko prešeštnikovo čaka, da nastane mrak, češ: Nobeno oko me ne zagleda, in krinko si dene na obraz.

¹⁶In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

¹⁶V temi vdirajo v hiše; po dnevi se zapirajo, svetlobe ne poznajo.

¹⁷For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

¹⁷Kajti najbolj črna tema jim je vsem jutro, ker vsak izmed njih je vešč grozotam črne teme.

¹⁸He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

¹⁸Hiter je v teku svojem po površju vodá; njih delež je proklet na zemlji; ne hodi več po poti proti vinogradom.

¹⁹Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

¹⁹Suša in vročina odpravita snežnico: enako šeol tiste, ki so grešili.

²⁰The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

²⁰Mati pozabi takega, črvadi bo dobro teknil, ne bodo se ga več spominjali; tako bo strta kakor drevo nepravičnost

²¹He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

²¹tistega, ki je plenil nerodovitno, ki ni rodila, in vdovi ničesar ni storil dobrega.

²²He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

²²Bog pa z močjo svojo dolgo vzdržuje mogočneže; marsikateri še vstane, ko je že obupal nad življenjem.

²³Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

²³Bog mu daje varnosti, in on se naslanja nanjo; toda oči Njegove so nad njih poti.

²⁴They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

²⁴Stopijo visoko, a malo le, pa jih ni več; zvrnejo se, smrt jih pograbi kakor vse druge, posečeni bodo kakor dozoreli klasovi.Ni li tako? Kdo dokaže, da lažem, in dene v nič govor moj?

²⁵And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

²⁵Ni li tako? Kdo dokaže, da lažem, in dene v nič govor moj?