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

¹WaMasimbaose anoregereiko kutara nguva dzokutonga? Vanomuziva vanoregereiko kuona mazuva ake?

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

²Vanoshandura miganho varipo; Vanopamba mapoka amakwai, vachiafudza.

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

³Vanotinha mbongoro yenherera, Vanotora nzombe yechirikadzi vachiita rubatso.

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

⁴Vanodzinga varombo panzira; Varombo venyika vanovanda vose.

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.

⁵Tarira, sembizi murenje Vanobudira kumabasa avo, vachishingairira chokwadi; Renje rinovapa zvokudya zvavana vavo.

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

⁶Vanocheka zvavanodya kusango; Vanounganidza mazambiringa avakaipa.

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

⁷Vanovata usiku hwose vasina zvavakafuka, Pachando havana chavangazvifukidza nacho.

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

⁸Vakanyorova nokupfunha kwemvura yamakomo, Vanombundikira dombo nokushaiwa pokutizira.

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

⁹Varipo vanobvuta nherera pazamu ramai, Nokutora rubatso rwavarombo;

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

¹⁰Naizvozvo vanofamba vasina zvavakafuka, Vanotakura zvisote vane nzara;

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

¹¹Vanosvina mafuta mukati mamasvingo avanhu ava; Vanotsika zvisviniro zvamazambiringa avo, vachifa nenyota.

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

¹²Vanhu vanogomera mukati meguta rina vanhu vazhinji, Uye mweya yavakakuvadzwa inochema; Kunyange zvakadaro Mwari haane hanya nezvisina kururama.

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

¹³Ndivo vanovenga chiedza; Havazivi nzira dzacho, Havarambi vachifamba pamakwara acho.

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

¹⁴Muurayi anomuka kana koedza, anouraya murombo neanoshaiwa; Usiku wakafanana nomubi.

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

¹⁵Ziso remhombwewo rinomirira rubvunzavaeni, Achiti, Hakune ziso richandiona; Ndokufukidza chiso chake.

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

¹⁶Usiku vanopaza dzimba; Masikati vanozvipfigira; Havazivi chiedza.

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

¹⁷nekuti mangwanani akaita serima guru kwavari vose; nekuti vanoziva kutyisa kwerima guru.

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.

¹⁸Iye anofambisa pamusoro pemvura; Mugove wavo wakatukwa panyika; Haachafambi nenzira yeminda yemizambiringa.

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

¹⁹Kuoma nokupisa kunopedza mvura yechando; saizvozvo sheori vakatadza.

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.

²⁰Chizvaro chichamukangamwa; honye dzichatapirirwa Uye kusarurama kuchavhumwa somuti.

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

²¹Iye unobovera mhanje; Haaitiri chirikadzi zvakanaka.

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

²²Anobvisa vane simba nesimba rake; Kana iye achisimuka, hakuna munhu anoziva kana achararama.

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

²³Mwari anovagarisa vakachengetwa, vachivimba nazvo; Asi meso ake anotarira nzira dzavo.

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.

²⁴Vanokudzwa; gare-gare vaenda; Vanodukupiswa, vanobviswa panzira savamwe vose, Vanochekwa semisoro yehura dzezviyo.

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

²⁵Kana zvisina kudaro zvino, ndiani angati ndine nhema, Nokushaisa mashoko angu simba here?