¹Ipapo Zofari muNaamati akapindura, akati,

¹And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

²Ko mashoko mazhinji akadai haangapindurwi here? Munhu anoshoshoma angaruramisirwa here?

²Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified?

³Manyawi ako angafanira kunyaradza vanhu here? Kana uchidadira, hakuna ungakunyadza here?

³Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make [thee] ashamed?

⁴nekuti iwe unoti, Zvandinoparidza ndezvechokwadi, Ndakachena pamberi penyu.

⁴For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

⁵Asi, haiwa! Dai Mwari hake achitaura, Ashamise miromo yake pamusoro pako;

⁵But oh that +God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

⁶Akuratidze zvakavanzwa zvokungwara, Kuti kuna mativi mazhinji. Uzive naizvozvo kuti Mwari anokangamwira zvimwe zvakaipa zvako.

⁶And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, how that they are the double of what is realised; and know that +God passeth by [much] of thine iniquity!

⁷Unganzwisisa zvakadzika zvaMwari here? Ungakwanisa kunzwisisa iye waMasimbaose here?

⁷Canst thou by searching find out +God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?

⁸Zvakakwirira sokudenga; iwe ungaiteiko? Zvakadzika kupfuura hwiro; iwe ungaziveiko?

⁸[It is as] the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?

⁹Kureba kwazvo kunopfuura nyika, Uye upamhi hwazvo hunopfuura gungwa.

⁹The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

¹⁰Kana iye akapfuura, akapfigira mitongo, Akakokera vanhu kukutongwa, ndiani angamudzivisa?

¹⁰If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?

¹¹Nekuti iye anoziva vanhu venhema; Anoonawo zvakaipa, kunyange asingazvifungi.

¹¹For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when [man] doth not consider it;

¹²Asi munhu asakachenjera anoshaiwa kunzwisisa, Zvirokwazvo, munhu anozvarwa semhuru yembizi.

¹²Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born [like] the foal of a wild ass.

¹³Kana iwe ukaruramisa moyo wako, Ukatambanudzira maoko ako kwaari;

¹³If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,

¹⁴Kana zvakaipa zviri muruoko rwako, uzviise kure, Kusarurama ngakurege kugara mumatende ako;

¹⁴If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;

¹⁵Zvirokwazvo ipapo ungasimudza chiso chako, usine gwapa, Zvirokwazvo, uchasimba, usingatyi, chinhu.

¹⁵Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be stedfast and shalt not fear:

¹⁶Nekuti uchakangamwa njodzi yako, Uchairangarira semvura yapfuura;

¹⁶For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;

¹⁷Upenyu hwako huchavara kupfuura masikati makuru; Kunyange kune rima, kuchava samangwanani.

¹⁷And life shall arise brighter than noonday; though thou be enshrouded in darkness, thou shalt be as the morning,

¹⁸Iwe uchasimba pamoyo, nekuti tariro ichavapo; Zvirokwazvo, ucharingaringa ndokuzorora hako wakachengetwa.

¹⁸And thou shalt have confidence, because there shall be hope; and having searched about [thee], thou shalt take rest in safety.

¹⁹Uchavata hako pasi, hakuna angakutyisa; Zvirokwazvo, vazhinji vachatsvaka kukufadza.

¹⁹Yea, thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; and many shall seek thy favour.

²⁰Asi meso avakaipa achapera nokutarira, Vachashaiwa pokutizirapo, Tariro yavo ichava yokufa.

²⁰But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and [all] refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope [shall be] the breathing out of life.