¹WaMasimbaose anoregereiko kutara nguva dzokutonga? Vanomuziva vanoregereiko kuona mazuva ake?

¹Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days?

²Vanoshandura miganho varipo; Vanopamba mapoka amakwai, vachiafudza.

²They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;

³Vanotinha mbongoro yenherera, Vanotora nzombe yechirikadzi vachiita rubatso.

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

⁴Vanodzinga varombo panzira; Varombo venyika vanovanda vose.

⁴They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.

⁵Tarira, sembizi murenje Vanobudira kumabasa avo, vachishingairira chokwadi; Renje rinovapa zvokudya zvavana vavo.

⁵Lo, [as] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] them food for [their] children.

⁶Vanocheka zvavanodya kusango; Vanounganidza mazambiringa avakaipa.

⁶They reap in the field the fodder thereof, and they gather the vintage of the wicked;

⁷Vanovata usiku hwose vasina zvavakafuka, Pachando havana chavangazvifukidza nacho.

⁷They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;

⁸Vakanyorova nokupfunha kwemvura yamakomo, Vanombundikira dombo nokushaiwa pokutizira.

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

⁹Varipo vanobvuta nherera pazamu ramai, Nokutora rubatso rwavarombo;

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

¹⁰Naizvozvo vanofamba vasina zvavakafuka, Vanotakura zvisote vane nzara;

¹⁰These go naked without clothing, and, hungry, they bear the sheaf;

¹¹Vanosvina mafuta mukati mamasvingo avanhu ava; Vanotsika zvisviniro zvamazambiringa avo, vachifa nenyota.

¹¹They press out oil within their walls, they tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

¹²Vanhu vanogomera mukati meguta rina vanhu vazhinji, Uye mweya yavakakuvadzwa inochema; Kunyange zvakadaro Mwari haane hanya nezvisina kururama.

¹²Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; and +God imputeth not the impiety.

¹³Ndivo vanovenga chiedza; Havazivi nzira dzacho, Havarambi vachifamba pamakwara acho.

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

¹⁴Muurayi anomuka kana koedza, anouraya murombo neanoshaiwa; Usiku wakafanana nomubi.

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

¹⁵Ziso remhombwewo rinomirira rubvunzavaeni, Achiti, Hakune ziso richandiona; Ndokufukidza chiso chake.

¹⁵And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on [his] face.

¹⁶Usiku vanopaza dzimba; Masikati vanozvipfigira; Havazivi chiedza.

¹⁶In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:

¹⁷nekuti mangwanani akaita serima guru kwavari vose; nekuti vanoziva kutyisa kwerima guru.

¹⁷For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

¹⁸Iye anofambisa pamusoro pemvura; Mugove wavo wakatukwa panyika; Haachafambi nenzira yeminda yemizambiringa.

¹⁸He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth: he turneth not unto the way of the vineyards.

¹⁹Kuoma nokupisa kunopedza mvura yechando; saizvozvo sheori vakatadza.

¹⁹Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned.

²⁰Chizvaro chichamukangamwa; honye dzichatapirirwa Uye kusarurama kuchavhumwa somuti.

²⁰The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, --

²¹Iye unobovera mhanje; Haaitiri chirikadzi zvakanaka.

²¹He that despoileth the barren that beareth not, and doeth not good to the widow:

²²Anobvisa vane simba nesimba rake; Kana iye achisimuka, hakuna munhu anoziva kana achararama.

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

²³Mwari anovagarisa vakachengetwa, vachivimba nazvo; Asi meso ake anotarira nzira dzavo.

²³[God] setteth him in safety, and he resteth thereon; but his eyes are upon their ways.

²⁴Vanokudzwa; gare-gare vaenda; Vanodukupiswa, vanobviswa panzira savamwe vose, Vanochekwa semisoro yehura dzezviyo.

²⁴They are exalted for a little, and are no more; they are laid low; like all [other] are they gathered, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

²⁵Kana zvisina kudaro zvino, ndiani angati ndine nhema, Nokushaisa mashoko angu simba here?

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