¹In odgovori Elifaz Temančan in reče:

¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

²Če poskusimo govoriti s teboj, morda ti bo nadležno? Ali kdo se more zdržati govora?

²“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

³Glej, mnoge si učil in trudne roke si krepčal.

³Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

⁴Besede tvoje so bodrile omahujoče, in šibeča se kolena si utrjeval.

⁴Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

⁵A ker je sedaj nad tebe prišlo, ti je bridko, in ker je tebe zadelo, si se prestrašil.

⁵But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

⁶Ni li tvoja bogaboječnost upanje tvoje in popolnost potov tvojih nada tvoja?

⁶Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

⁷Spomni se, prosim te, kdo je kdaj poginil nedolžen, kje so zatrli poštenjake?

⁷“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

⁸Kolikor sem videl jaz: tisti, ki orjejo krivico in sejejo nesrečo, jo tudi žanjejo.

⁸According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

⁹Od diha Božjega ginejo, in sapa jeze njegove jih pokončava.

⁹By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

¹⁰Rjovenje leva, glas ljutega leva utihne, in zobje levičevi bodo strti;

¹⁰The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

¹¹krepek lev pogine, ker nima plena, in levinjina mladina se mora razkropiti.

¹¹The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

¹²In mene je skrivoma došla beseda, uho moje je ujelo njeno šepetanje;

¹²“Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.

¹³v premišljevanju, ki ga sprožijo nočne prikazni, ko trdno spanje objema ljudi:

¹³In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

¹⁴strah me je obšel in trepet, in vse kosti moje so se pretresle;

¹⁴fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

¹⁵kajti duh je šel mimo mene – vstali so pokoncu lasje telesa mojega.

¹⁵Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.

¹⁶Ustopil se je, a nisem mu spoznal obraza, podoba mi je bila pred očmi, šepet in glas sem začul:

¹⁶It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

¹⁷„Je li smrtnik pravičen pred Bogom ali mož čist pred Stvarnikom svojim?

¹⁷‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

¹⁸Glej, hlapcem svojim ne upa in angele svoje lahko okrivi zmote:

¹⁸Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

¹⁹koliko bolj one, ki prebivajo v ilovih hišah, ki jim je podlaga v prahu, ki jih je lahko zatreti kakor molje!

¹⁹How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

²⁰Od jutra do večera se stro, in preden kdo opazi, izginejo za vekomaj.Ni li tako? Ko se jim izdere vrv, ki veže njih šator telesni, umirajo, in to brez modrosti.“

²⁰Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

²¹Ni li tako? Ko se jim izdere vrv, ki veže njih šator telesni, umirajo, in to brez modrosti.“

²¹Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’