¹“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

¹¶ Tena ra, karanga; ka whakao ranei tetahi ki a koe? a ka anga atu koe ki a wai o te hunga tapu?

²For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

²E patua ana hoki te kuware e te aritarita, e whakamatea ana te whakaarokore e te hae.

³I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

³I kite ahau i te kuware e hou ana ona pakiaka; kitea rawatia ake kua kanga e ahau tona nohoanga.

⁴His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

⁴Kei tawhiti atu ana tama i te ora, mongamonga noa ratou i te kuwaha, kahore hoki he kaiwhakaora.

⁵whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

⁵Ko ana hua ka kainga e te tangata matekai, ka riro i a ia ahakoa i roto i te tataramoa, a ka hamama te mahanga ki o ratou rawa.

⁶For affliction doesn’t come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

⁶¶ Na e kore te he e puta ake i te puehu, e kore ano te raruraru e tupu ake i te oneone;

⁷but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

⁷I whanau te tangata ki te raruraru, tona rite kei nga korakora e rere nei whakarunga.

⁸“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

⁸Ko ahau ia ka rapu i ta te Atua; me tuku atu taku korero ki te Atua,

⁹who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

⁹E mahi nei i nga mea nunui e kore nei e taea te rapu atu, i nga mea whakamiharo e kore nei e taea te tatau;

¹⁰who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

¹⁰E homai nei i te ua ki te mata o te whenua, e unga nei i te wai ki te mata o nga parae;

¹¹so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

¹¹E whakanoho nei i te hunga iti ki te wahi tiketike, a whakanekehia ake ana te hunga pouri ki te ora.

¹²He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

¹²E haukoti nei i nga whakaaro o te hunga tinihanga, te taea e o ratou ringa ta ratou i mea ai.

¹³He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

¹³Mau ake i a ia te hunga whakaaro i to ratou tinihanga: pororaru iho nga whakaaro o te hunga kotiti ke.

¹⁴They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

¹⁴I te awatea nei, tutaki ana ratou ki te pouri; whawha ana ratou i te poutumarotanga, ano ko te po.

¹⁵But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

¹⁵Otiia e whakaorangia ana e ia te rawakore i te hoari, i to ratou mangai, i te ringa ano o te tangata kaha.

¹⁶So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

¹⁶Ka ai ano he tumanakohanga atu mo te ware; kokopi tonu ia te mangai o te kino.

¹⁷“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

¹⁷¶ Nana, ka hari te tangata e akona ana e te Atua: na kaua e whakahawea ki te papaki a te Kaha Rawa.

¹⁸For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.

¹⁸He whakamamae hoki tana, he takai ano; e patu ana ia, a ko ona ringa ano hei whakaora.

¹⁹He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.

¹⁹E ono nga matenga e whakaora ai ia i a koe; ahakoa e whitu, e kore te he e pa ki a koe.

²⁰In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

²⁰I te matekai ka hokona koe e ia kei mate; i te tatauranga ano, kei pangia e te hoari.

²¹You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

²¹Ka huna koe i te whiu a te arero, e kore ano koe e wehi i te whakangaromanga ina tae mai.

²²At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

²²E kata ano koe ki te whakangaromanga raua ko te hemokai; e kore hoki koe e wehi i nga kirehe o te whenua.

²³For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.

²³No te mea ka takoto tau kawenata ki nga kohatu o te parae; ka mau ano ta koutou rongo ko nga kirehe o te parae.

²⁴You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.

²⁴Ka mohio ano koe e tu ana tou teneti i te aionuku, ka haereere ano koe ki tou nohoanga, te ai he hara.

²⁵You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

²⁵Ka mohio ano koe he nui ou uri, he pera ano tou whanau me te tarutaru o te whenua.

²⁶You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

²⁶Ka ata rite ou tau ina tae koe ki te urupa, ka pera ano me te puranga witi e hikitia ake ana i tona wa e rite ai.

²⁷Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

²⁷Nana, tenei, he mea rapu na matou ko te mea tika hoki ia; whakarangona mai, ka mohio iho hei pai mou.