¹“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

¹Zašto Svesilni ne promatra vremena, a dane njegove ne vide mu vjernici?

²There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

²Bezbožnici pomiču granice, otimaju stado i pasu ga.

³They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

³Sirotama odvode magarca, udovi u zalog vola dižu.

⁴They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

⁴Siromahe tjeraju sa puta; skrivaju se ubogari zemlje.

⁵Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

⁵K'o magarci divlji u pustinji zarana idu da plijen ugrabe: pustinja im hrani mališane.

⁶They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

⁶Po tuđem polju oni pabirče, paljetkuju vinograd opakog.

⁷They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

⁷Goli noće, nemaju haljine, ni pokrivača protiv studeni.

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

⁸Oni kisnu na planinskom pljusku; bez skloništa uz hrid se zbijaju.

⁹There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

⁹Otkidaju od sise sirotu, ubogom u zalog dijete grabe.

¹⁰So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

¹⁰Goli hode, nemaju haljina; izgladnjeli, tuđe snoplje nose.

¹¹They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

¹¹Oni mlina za ulje nemaju; ožednjeli, gaze u kacama.

¹²From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

¹²Samrtnici hropću iz gradova, ranjenici u pomoć zazivlju. Al' na sve to Bog se oglušuje.

¹³“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

¹³Ima onih koji mrze svjetlost: ne priznaju njezinih putova niti se staza drže njezinih.

¹⁴The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

¹⁴Za mraka se diže ubojica, kolje ubogog i siromaha. U gluhoj se noći lopov skiće [16a] i u tmini provaljuje kuće.

¹⁵The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye shall see me.’ He disguises his face.

¹⁵Sumrak žudi oko preljubnika: 'Nitko me vidjet neće', kaže on i zastire velom svoje lice.

¹⁶In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

¹⁶[16b]Za vidjela oni se skrivaju, oni neće da za svjetlost znaju.

¹⁷For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

¹⁷Zora im je kao sjena smrtna: kad zarudi, silan strah ih hvata.

¹⁸“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

¹⁸Prije nego svane, on već hitro bježi kloneći se puta preko vinograda. Njegova su dobra prokleta u zemlji.

¹⁹Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. those who have sinned.

¹⁹K'o što vrućina i žega snijeg upija, tako i Podzemlje proždire grešnike.

²⁰The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

²⁰Zaboravilo ga krilo što ga rodi, ime se njegovo više ne spominje: poput stabla zgromljena je opačina.

²¹He devours the barren who don’t bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

²¹Ženu nerotkinju on je zlostavljao, udovici nije učinio dobra.

²²Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

²²Al' Onaj što snažno hvata nasilnike, ustaje, a njima sva se nada gasi.

²³God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.

²³Dade mu sigurnost, i on se pouzda; okom je njegove nadzirao staze.

²⁴They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

²⁴Dignu se za kratko, a onda nestanu, ruše se i kao svi drugi istrunu, posječeni kao glave klasovima."

²⁵If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

²⁵Nije li tako? Tko će me u laž utjerat'? Tko moje riječi poništiti može?"