1 Ipapo Jobho akapindura akati:
2 “Dai chete kurwadziwa kwangu kwaigona kuyerwa
3 Zvirokwazvo zvairema kupfuura jecha ramakungwa,
4 Miseve yoWamasimba Ose iri mandiri,
5 Ko, mbizi ingachema kana ine bundo here?
6 Ko, chokudya chisinganaki chingadyiwa chisina munyu here?
7 Ndinoramba kuzvibata;
8 “Haiwa, dai ndapiwa hangu zvandinokumbira
9 kuti dai Mwari aida hake kundipwanya,
10 Ipapo ndaizova hangu nokunyaradzwa uku,
11 “Ndinaro here simba, rokuti ndirambe ndine tariro?
12 Ko, ndine simba rebwe here?
13 Ko, ndine simba here rokuti ndione kuti ndabatsirika,
14 “Munhu asina tariro anofanira kuwana rudo rweshamwari dzake,
15 Asi hama dzangu hadzivimbike sezvinongoita hova dzava kudira.
16 dzinosviba pakunyungudika kwamagwada echando,
17 asi dzinoguma kuyerera mumwaka wokupisa,
18 Mihoronga inotsauka kubva munzira dzayo;
19 Vafambi veTema vanotsvaka mvura,
20 Vachaora mwoyo, nokuti vaivimba nesimba ravo;
21 Zvino nemiwo maratidza kusabatsira;
22 Ko, ndakamboti, ‘Ndipeiwo chipo,
23 ndirwirei muruoko rwomuvengi,
24 “Ndidzidzisei, uye ndichanyarara hangu;
25 Mashoko echokwadi anorwadza sei!
26 Munoda kutsiura zvandareva,
27 Muchada kana kukanda mijenya pamusoro penherera
28 “Asi zvino chinditarirai netsitsi.
29 Musadaro, musava vasakarurama;
30 Ko, pamiromo yangu pane zvakaipa here?