¹Ipapo Bhiridhadhi muShuhi akapindura akati,

¹And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,

²Ucharamba uchitaura mashoko awa kusvikira rinhiko?

²How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?

³Ko Mwari angakanganisa pakutonga here WaMasimbaose angakanganisa zvakarurama here?

³Doth ùGod pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?

⁴Kana vana vako vakanga vamutadzira iye, Akavaisa pakudarika kwavo;

⁴If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.

⁵Kana iwe ukashingaira kutsvaka Mwari, Ukakumbira kuna waMasimbaose;

⁵If thou seek earnestly unto ùGod, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

⁶Kana ukava akanaka, akaruruma; Iye angadai aimuka zvino nokuda kwako, Akafambisa zvakanaka imba yako yakarurama.

⁶If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;

⁷Kunyange kutanga kwako kwaiva kuduku, Asi kuguma kwako kwaiva kukuru kwazvo.

⁷And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.

⁸nekuti chidobvunza hako rudzi rwakare, Ucherekedze zvakanzverwa namadzibaba avo.

⁸For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;

⁹(Nokuti isu tiri vazuro hedu, hatizivi chinhu, nekuti mazuva edu panyika akafanana nemumvuri;)

⁹For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.

¹⁰Ivo havangakudzidzisi here, nokukuudza, Nokureva mashoko anobva pamoyo yavo here?

¹⁰Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

¹¹Ko nhokwe ingamera pasine nhope here? Ko rutsanga rungamera pasine mvura here?

¹¹Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?

¹²Ruchiri runyoro, rusati rwatemwa, Runosvava mimwe miriwo ichigere.

¹²Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.

¹³Ndizvo zvakaita nzira dzavose vanokangamwa Mwari; Uye tariro yomunhu asingadi Mwari ichapera;

¹³So are the paths of all that forget ùGod; and the profane man's hope shall perish,

¹⁴Chaakatarira chichaputsanyiwa, Chaakatenda chakafanana namambure edandemutande

¹⁴Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.

¹⁵Uchasendamira paimba yake, asi haingamiri; Uchaibata, asi haingagari.

¹⁵He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.

¹⁶Iye muti mutema pamushana, Matavi ake anotandavarira pamunda wake.

¹⁶He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;

¹⁷Midzi yake yakapombera patsime, Unoona nzvimbo yorukangarabwe.

¹⁷His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.

¹⁸Kana akaparadzwa panzvimbo yake, Ichamuramba, ichiti, Handina kukuona,

¹⁸If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!

¹⁹Tarira, ndiwo mufaro wenzira yake; Paguruva panobuda vamwe.

¹⁹Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.

²⁰Tarira, Mwari haangarashi munhu wakarurama, Haangabatsiri vanoita zvakaipa.

²⁰Behold, ùGod will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.

²¹Achazozadza hake muromo wako nokuseka, Nemiromo yako nokupururudza.

²¹Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,

²²Vanokuvenga vachafukidza nokunyara; Uye tende ravakaipa haringazovipo.

²²They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.