¹Kliči, pravim! Je li kdo, ki ti odgovori? in h kateremu iz svetnikov se obrneš?

¹“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

²Kajti neumneža umori srd, in bedaka ubije goreča jeza.

²For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

³Sam sem videl neumneža, da se je ukoreninjeval, a precej sem proklel prebivališče njegovo.

³I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

⁴Daleč so ostali otroci njegovi od sreče in poteptani so bili med vrati, in nikogar ni bilo, ki bi jih bil rešil;

⁴His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

⁵njegovo žetev je pojedel lačnež, celó iz trnjeve ograje jo je pobral, in po imetju njegovem so hlastali žejni.

⁵whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

⁶Kajti nesreča ne prihaja iz prahu, in iz zemlje ne poganja nadloga,

⁶For affliction doesn’t come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

⁷ampak človek se rodi za nadlogo, kakor iskre letajo kvišku.

⁷but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

⁸Jaz pa, do Boga mogočnega bi se proseč obrnil in poročil pravdo svojo Bogu,

⁸“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

⁹ki nareja reči velike, da jih ni doumeti, čudna dela brez števila;

⁹who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

¹⁰ki daje dežja na površje zemlje in vode pošilja na površino poljan,

¹⁰who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

¹¹da bi postavil ponižne v višavo in da se žalostni povzdignejo v srečo.

¹¹so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

¹²On uničuje zvijačnih naklepe, da njih roke ne morejo izvršiti, kar so začeli.

¹²He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

¹³On zasačuje modre v njih lastni zvijači, in premetencev namera se izvrne.

¹³He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

¹⁴Po dnevi nalete na temo in opoldne tavajo kakor po noči.

¹⁴They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

¹⁵On rešuje potrebnega od meča, ki gre iz njih ust, in iz pesti mogočneža.

¹⁵But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

¹⁶In tako vzklije ubožcu upanje, in nepravičnost mora stisniti usta svoja.

¹⁶So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

¹⁷Glej, blagor možu, ki ga Bog strahuje! Zato ne zaničuj kazni Vsegamogočnega.

¹⁷“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

¹⁸Kajti on napravi rano, pa jo tudi obveže, udari, a roke njegove zacelijo.

¹⁸For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.

¹⁹Iz šestih stisk te otme, tudi v sedmerih se te ne dotakne nesreča.

¹⁹He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.

²⁰V lakoti te odreši smrti in v vojski oblasti meča.

²⁰In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

²¹Skrit boš biču jezika in ne boš se bal pustošenja, kadar pride.

²¹You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

²²Pustošenju in draginji se boš smejal in zverin zemlje se ne boš bal,

²²At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

²³kajti zavezo boš imel s kamenjem na polju, in zverina poljska se bo prijateljila s teboj.

²³For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.

²⁴In spoznaš, da ima mir šator tvoj, in če pogledaš bivališče svoje, ne pogrešiš ničesar.

²⁴You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.

²⁵Vedel boš tudi, da bo semena tvojega veliko in potomcev tvojih kakor trave zemeljske.

²⁵You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

²⁶Čvrst bodeš, še ko pojdeš v grob, kakor kopica snopja, ko se spravlja ob svojem času.Glej, to smo preiskovali, tako je; poslušaj to in dobro pomni!

²⁶You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

²⁷Glej, to smo preiskovali, tako je; poslušaj to in dobro pomni!

²⁷Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good.”