¹Ipapo Erifazi muTemani akapindura, akati,

¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

²Ko munhu, ane njere, angapindura nenjere dzisina maturo Nokuzadza dumbu rake nemhepo inobva mabvazuva here?

²“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

³Angaita nharo nokutaura zvisingabatsire, Kana mashoko aasingagoni kubata basa rakanaka nawo here?

³Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

⁴Zvirokwazvo iwe unorasha kutya Mwari, Nokukanganisa vanoda kufunga Mwari.

⁴Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

⁵nekuti zvakaipa zvako zvinodzidzisa muromo wako, Unotsaura rurimi rwavanyepedzeri.

⁵For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

⁶Muromo wako ndiwo unokupa mhosva, handizini. Zvirokwazvo miromo yako inokupupurira zvakaipa.

⁶Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

⁷Ko ndiwe wakatanga kuzvarwa kanhi? Kana wakaberekwa makomo asati avapo here?

⁷“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

⁸Iwe wakanzwa mano akavanzika aMwari kanhi? Ndiwe woga wakazviwanira njere kanhi?

⁸Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

⁹Unozivei iwe zvatisingaziviwo isu? Unonzwisisei iwe zvisati zviri matiriwo?

⁹What do you know, that we don’t know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

¹⁰Vakachena vhudzi navatana vakwegura kwazvo vanesu, Vakapfuura baba vako kwazvo pazero.

¹⁰With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.

¹¹Ko kunyaradza kwaMwari hakukuringani here, Neshoko rinotaurwa nounyoro kwauri here,

¹¹Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

¹²moyo wako unokurashirei? Meso ako anobwaireiko?

¹²Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

¹³Zvaunorwa naMwari nomweya wako, Uchitendera mashoko akadai kubuda pamuromo wako.

¹³That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

¹⁴Munhu chinyiko? Angava akanaka sei? Naiye akazvarwa nomukadzi, angava akarurama sei?

¹⁴What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

¹⁵Tarira, haatendi vatsvene vake; Zvirokwazvo, kudenga hakuna kunaka pamberi pake.

¹⁵Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

¹⁶Ndoda munhu anosemesa, akaora, Munhu anomwa zvakaipa semvura.

¹⁶how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

¹⁷Ndichakuratidza, chiteerera; Ndichakududzira zvandakaona.

¹⁷“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare:

¹⁸(Zvakarehwa navanhu vakangwara zvavakanzwa kumadzibaba avo, vasina kuzvivanza;

¹⁸(Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

¹⁹Ivo vakanga vapiwa nyika voga, Hakuna mutorwa akapinda pakati pavo;)

¹⁹to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):

²⁰Munhu akaipa anotambudzika achirwadziwa mazuva ake ose, Iwo makore akatarirwa mumanikidzi.

²⁰the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

²¹inzwi rezvinotyisa riri munzeve dzake; Muparadzi achamusvikira akafara.

²¹A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

²²Haatendi kuti achadzokazve achibva parima, Anovandirwa nomunondo.

²²He doesn’t believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

²³Unofamba-famba achitsvaka zvokudya, achiti, Zviripiko? Anoziva kuti zuva rerima riri pedo naye,

²³He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

²⁴Njodzi nokutambudzika zvinomutyisa; Zvinomukunda, samambo akazvigadzirira kurwa.

²⁴Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

²⁵Nekuti akatambanudzira ruoko rwake kuzorwa naMwari, Akazvikudza pamberi powaMasimbaose;

²⁵Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

²⁶Anomhanyira kwaari anomutsipa mukukutu, Namakwande makobvu enhovo dzake.

²⁶he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers;

²⁷Nekuti akafukidza chiso chake namafuta, Akaunganidza mafuta mazhinji pachiuno chake.

²⁷because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.

²⁸Akagara pamaguta akanga ava matongo, Padzimba dzisina kufanira kugarwa nomunhu, Dzaikarokushanduka matongo.

²⁸He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

²⁹Iye haangavi mufumi, fuma yake haingagari, Nezvibereko zvazvo hazvingaremberi pasi.

²⁹He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

³⁰Haangabvi parima; Murazvo womoto uchawomesa matavi ake, Uchabviswa nomweya womuromo waMwari.

³⁰He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God’s mouth shall he go away.

³¹Ngaarege kuvimba nezvisina maturo, achizvinyengera, nekuti mubairo wake uchava zvisina maturo.

³¹Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

³²Zvichaitwa nguva yake isinokusvika, davi rake haringavi nyoro.

³²It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

³³Achazuka mazambiringa ake agere kuibva somuzambiringa, Uchazuka maruva ake somuorivhi.

³³He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

³⁴Nekuti ungano yavasingadi Mwari haingabereki, Moto uchapedza matende avafufuri.

³⁴For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

³⁵Vane mimba yezvakashata, vanobereka zvakaipa, Dumbu ravo rinogadzira kunyengera.

³⁵They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”