¹Munhu akazvarwa nomukadzi anamazuva mashoma, azere nokutambudzika.

¹“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

²Anobuda seruva, ndokusvava; Anotizawo somumvuri, haagari.

²He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

³Ko munotarira munhu akadai nameso enyu, Muchinditonga here?

³Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

⁴Ndianiko angabudisa chinhu chakanaka pane chakaipa? Hakuna.

⁴Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

⁵Mazuva ake zvaakatarwa, mwedzi yake yakaverengwa nemi, Makamutarira miganho yaasingatenderwi kudarika;

⁵Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

⁶Regai kumucherekedza, azorore, Kusvikira apedza zuva rake somubatiri.

⁶Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

⁷nekuti kana muti uchinge watemwa, kune tariro kuti uchabudazve, Uye kuti davi rawo nyoro haringaperi.

⁷“For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

⁸Kunyange mudzi wawo ukakwegurira muvhu, Nehunde yawo ikafa pasi;

⁸Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

⁹Kunyange zvakadaro uchabukira kana wanzwa kunhuhwira kwemvura, Ndokubudisa matavi somuti muduku.

⁹yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

¹⁰Asi munhu anofa, akaparara hake; Zvirokwazvo munhu anorega kufema, zvino aripiko?

¹⁰But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

¹¹Mvura inopera pagungwa, Uye rwizi runopera nokupwa;

¹¹As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

¹²Saizvozvo munhu anovata pasi, akasamukazve; Havazomukizve kusvikira denga rapera, Havangamutswi pahope dzavo.

¹²so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

¹³Dai muchindivanza henyu paSheori, Muchindichengeta pakavanda, kusvikira hasha dzenyu dzapfuura, Munditemere nguva yakatarwa, yamungandirangarira nayo.

¹³“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. , that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

¹⁴Kana munhu achinge afa, angararamazve here? Ndaimira hangu mazuva ose okutambudzika kwangu, Kusvikira kusunungurwa kwangu kuchisvika.

¹⁴If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

¹⁵Maizodana, ini ndikakupindurai; Maishuva basa ramaoko enyu.

¹⁵You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

¹⁶Asi zvino munoverenga nhambwe dzangu;

¹⁶But now you number my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

¹⁷Kudarika kwangu kwakasungirwa muhombodo, Munosunga zvakaipa zvangu.

¹⁷My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

¹⁸Gomo kana richiwa zvirokwazvo rinopfupfunyuka, Uye dombo rinobviswa panzvimbo yaro;

¹⁸“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

¹⁹Mvura inochera mabwe; Kuyerera kwayo kunokukura guruva renyika;. imwi munoparadza tariro yomunhu.

¹⁹The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

²⁰Munomukunda nokusingaperi, iye akapfuura hake; Munoshandura chiso chake, ndokumudzinga.

²⁰You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

²¹Vana vake vanokudzwa iye asingazvizivi; Vanoderedzwa, asi iye haaoni vachiitirwa izvozvo.

²¹His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

²²Asi kana ari iye, nyama yake inorwadziwa, Mweya wake unochema mukati make.

²²But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.”