¹Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

¹Ipapo Jehovha akapindura Jobho, ari pachamupupuri, akati,

²“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

²Ndianiko uya anodzima zano rangu achiriita rima Namashoko asine zivo here?

³Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

³Chizvisunga chiuno chako zvino somurume; nekuti ndichakubvunzisisa, iwe undidudzire.

⁴“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

⁴Iwe wakange uripiko panguva yandakateya nheyo dzenyika? Chidudzira, kana une zivo iwe.

⁵Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

⁵Ndianiko akatara kukura kwayo, kana uchizviziva? Kana ndianiko akaiyera norwonzi?

⁶Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

⁶Ko nheyo dzayo dzakateyiwa pamusoro pei? Kana ndianiko akateya ibwe rayo rekona?

⁷when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

⁷Panguva yakaimba nyeredzi dzamambakwedza pamawa, Uye vanakomana vose vaMwari vachipururudza nomufaro?

⁸“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,

⁸Kana ndianiko wakadzivira gungwa nemikova, Panguva yokudzutuka kwaro, richibuda pachizvaro;

⁹when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

⁹Panguva yandakaita gore nenguva yaro, Uye rima guru uve mucheka wokuriputira nawo;

¹⁰marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

¹⁰Panguva.yandakaritarira muganhu waro, Ndikariisira mazariro nemikova,

¹¹and said, ‘Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?’

¹¹Ndikati, Ungasvikira pano, asi haungapfuvuri; Mafungu ako, anozvikudza, achadzivirirwa pano?

¹²“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

¹²Iwe wakatongoraira mangwanani kubva pakutanga kwamazuva ako here, Ukaratidza mambakwedza nzvimbo yawo here?

¹³that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

¹³Kuti abate migumo yenyika, Vakaipa vazuzwe vabve pairi here?

¹⁴It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.

¹⁴Zvinoshanduka sevhu kana richitsikwa nechisimbiso, Zvinhu zvose zvichionekwa sapanguvo.

¹⁵From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

¹⁵Vakaipa vanodzitirirwa chiedza chavo, Ruoko, runozvikudza, runovhuniwa.

¹⁶“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

¹⁶Iwe wakatongopinda pamatsime egungwa here? Kana wakatongofamba pakadzikadzika pasi here?

¹⁷Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

¹⁷Masuwo orufu akatongokuzarurirwa here? Kana wakatongoona masuwo omumvuri worufu here?

¹⁸Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

¹⁸Wakatongonzwisisa upamhi bwenyika here? Dudzira, kana uchizviziva zvose.

¹⁹“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

¹⁹Nzira iripiko inoenda kunogara chiedza, Kana riri rima, nzvimbo yaro iripiko?

²⁰that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

²⁰Kuti undozviisa kumiganho yazvo, Uye kuti uzive nzira dzinoenda kumusha wazvo here?

²¹Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

²¹Unenge unoziva hako, nekuti wakange wakazvarwa panguva iyo! Mazuva ako anenge akawanda kwazvo!

²²Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

²²Wakatongopinda panovigwa fuma yamazaya echando here, Kana wakatongoona panovigwa fuma yechimvuramabwe here?

²³which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

²³Izvo zvandakachengetera nguva yenhamo, Nezuva rokurwa nehondo here?

²⁴By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

²⁴Chiedza chinoparadzaniswa nomutowo upiko, Uye mhepo inobva mabvazuva inopararira seiko panyika?

²⁵Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;

²⁵Ndianiko akacherera boporodzi remvura mugero, Kana kuratidzira mheni yomutinhiro nzira yayo;

²⁶To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;

²⁶Kuti mvura iniswe panyika isina vanhu, Parenje pasina vanhu;

²⁷to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

²⁷Kuti ivhu rakasiiwa nerakaparadzwa rigutswe; Uye bumhudza rimereswe here?

²⁸Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

²⁸Ko mvura inonaya inababa here? Kana ndianiko wakazvara madonhedza edova?

²⁹Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?

²⁹Mazaya echando akabuda muchizvaro chaaniko? Uye chando chokudenga ndianiko akachibereka?

³⁰The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

³⁰Mvura inogwamba sebwe, Gungwa rakadzika rinogwamba pamusoro paro.

³¹“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

³¹Ko iwe ungasunga sumbu reChinyamutanhatu, Kana kusunungura zvisungo zveOrionhi here?

³²Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

³²Iwe ungabudisa Mazaroti panguva yawo here? Kana ungagona kufambisa Arikituro navanakomana vayo here?

³³Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

³³Iwe unoziva mitemo yokudenga here? Iwe ungagona kuraira ushe hwazvo panyika here?

³⁴“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

³⁴Ko iwe ungasvitsa inzwi kumakore, Kuti ufukidzwe nemvura yakawanda here?

³⁵Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are?’

³⁵Iwe ungagona kutuma mheni, kuti dzifambe, Dzichiti kwauri, Tiri pano, here?

³⁶Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

³⁶Ndianiko akaisa uchenjeri mukati mamakore matema? Kana ndianiko akapa nyeredzi njere?

³⁷Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,

³⁷Ndianiko angagona kuverenga makore nohuchenjeri hwake here? Kana ndianiko angagona kudurura hombodo dzemvura dzokudenga?

³⁸when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

³⁸Kana guruva richiungana pamwechete, Namavhinga achinamatirana here?

³⁹“Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

³⁹Ko iwe ungavhimira shumbakadzi, Kana kugutsa vana veshumba here?

⁴⁰when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?

⁴⁰Kana idzo dzichitsivama panzvimbo dzadzo, Nokurambira pakavanda dzichivandira here?

⁴¹Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

⁴¹Ndianiko anogadzirira gunguvo zvokudya zvaro,