¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

¹Elifaz Temanac progovori tad i reče:

²“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

²"Zar Bogu koristan može biti čovjek? TÓa tko je mudar, sebi samom koristi.

³Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

³Zar je Svesilnom milost što si pravedan i zar mu je dobit što si neporočan?

⁴Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

⁴Ili te zbog tvoje pobožnosti kara i zato se hoće s tobom parničiti?

⁵Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

⁵Nije l' to zbog zloće tvoje prevelike i zbog bezakonja kojim broja nema?

⁶For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

⁶Od braće si brao nizašto zaloge i s golih si ljudi svlačio haljine;

⁷You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

⁷ti nisi žednoga vodom napojio, uskraćivao si kruh izgladnjelima;

⁸But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

⁸otimao si od siromaha zemlju da bi na njoj svog nastanio ljubimca;

⁹You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

⁹puštao si praznih ruku udovice i siročadi si satirao ruku.

¹⁰Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

¹⁰Eto zašto tebe mreže sad sapinju, zašto te strahovi muče iznenadni.

¹¹or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

¹¹Svjetlost ti mrak posta i ništa ne vidiš, vode su duboke tebe potopile.

¹²“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

¹²Zar Bog nije u visini nebeskoj i zar zvijezdama tjeme on ne vidi?

¹³You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

¹³Ali ti kažeš: 'Što Bog može znati? Kroz oblak tmasti zar što razabire?

¹⁴Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’

¹⁴Oblaci pogled njegov zaklanjaju, i rubom kruga on hoda nebeskog.'

¹⁵Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

¹⁵TÓa kaniš li se drevnog držat' puta kojim su išli ljudi nepravedni?

¹⁶who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

¹⁶Prije vremena nestadoše oni, bujica im je temelje raznijela.

¹⁷who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

¹⁷Zborahu Bogu: 'Nas se ti ostavi! Što nam Svesilni učiniti može?'

¹⁸Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁸A on im je dom punio dobrima makar do njega ne držahu ništa.

¹⁹The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

¹⁹Videć' im propast, klikću pravednici, neporočni se njima izruguju:

²⁰saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed their remnant.’

²⁰'Gle, propadoše protivnici naši, što od njih osta, vatra im proždrije!"

²¹“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.

²¹S Bogom ti se sprijatelji i pomiri, i vraćena će ti opet biti sreća.

²²Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

²²Ded prihvati Zakon iz njegovih usta, u srce svoje riječ njegovu usadi.

²³If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

²³Ako se raskajan vratiš Svesilnome i nepravdu iz svog šatora odstraniš,

²⁴Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

²⁴tad ćeš odbaciti zlato u prašinu i ofirsko blago u šljunak potočni.

²⁵The Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.

²⁵Svesilni će postat' tvoje suho zlato, on će biti tvoje gomile srebrene.

²⁶For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.

²⁶Da, Svesilni bit će tvoje radovanje, i lice ćeš k Bogu dizati slobodno.

²⁷You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.

²⁷Molit ćeš mu se, i uslišat će tebe, ispunit ćeš što si mu zavjetovao.

²⁸You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.

²⁸Što god poduzeo, sve će ti uspjeti, i putove će ti obasjavat' svjetlost.

²⁹When they cast down, you shall say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

²⁹Jer, on ponizuje ponos oholima, dok u pomoć smjernim očima pritječe.

³⁰He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”

³⁰Iz nevolje on izbavlja nevinoga; i tebe će spasit' tvoje čiste ruke."