< Job 4 >
1 To naah Teman acaeng Eliphaz mah,
and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
2 lok kang thuih o nahaeloe, na thaima doeh om tih, toe mi maw lokthui ai ah om thai tih?
to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
3 Khenah, kami paroeai na thuitaek boeh, thacak ai kaminawk ih ban to tha na caksak boeh.
behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
4 Amtimh kami to na lok hoiah na patawnh moe, thacak khokkhu to tha na caksak boeh.
to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
5 Toe vaihi loe na nuiah raihaih phak moe, palung na boeng sut boeh; ang boh moe, raihaih na tongh boeh.
for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay
6 Hae loe sithaw na zithaih, na oephaih hoi toenghaih loklam ah na ai maw oh?
not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
7 Zaehaih tawn ai kami loe amro vai maw? To tih ai boeh loe kawbaktih ahmuen ah maw katoeng kami amro vaih? Tito poek ah.
to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide
8 Ka hnuk ih baktih toengah, kahoih ai hmuen sah kami, sethaih aanmu haeh kami ni, a sak ih baktih toengah aah.
like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him
9 To baktih kaminawk loe Sithaw ih palungphuihaih hoiah amro o moe, Sithaw anghahhaih takhi hoiah duek o.
from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy
10 Nihcae loe kasan kaipui ih lok baktih, kaipui baktiah hang o cadoeh, kaipui haa kangkhaek baktiah amro o.
roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break
11 Kaipui mitong loe caak han moi om ai pongah duek, a caanawk loe anghmaa angtaa o.
lion to perish from without prey and son: young animal lion to separate
12 Vaihi kai khaeah tamquta hoi lok ang thuih, thuih duem ih lok to ka thaih.
and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him
13 Kaminawk loe iih o boih boeh, qum amang ah hnuksakhaih to ka poek naah,
in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human
14 zithaih ka nuiah phak naah, ka huhnawk anghuenh khoek to tasoeh takuenhaih hoiah ka oh.
dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread
15 Ka hmaa ah muithla caeh pongah; ka nganmui angthawk tahang;
and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my
16 to muithla loe angdoet sut, krang loe kahoih ah amtueng ai, krang tahlip khue ni ka hnuk; to naah kamding rue, to pacoengah ka thaih ih lok maeto mah,
to stand: stand and not to recognize appearance his likeness to/for before eye my silence and voice to hear: hear
17 kadueh thaih kami loe Sithaw pongah toeng kue maw? Kami loe anih sahkung pongah ciim kue maw?
human from god to justify if: surely no from to make him be pure great man
18 Khenah, Sithaw mah loe a tamnanawk maeto mataeng doeh oep ai; angmah ih vankaminawk mataeng doeh sakpazaehaih hnu nahaeloe,
look! in/on/with servant/slave his not be faithful and in/on/with messenger: angel his to set: make error
19 tangphrung long hoiah sak ih im ah kaom, karaa pongah amro han kazoi kue, maiphu hoiah sak ih kaminawk cae loe kawkruk maw sakpazaehaih hnu pae tih!
also to dwell house: home clay which in/on/with dust foundation their to crush them to/for face: before moth
20 Nihcae loe akhawnbang hoi duembang salakah amro o moe, mi mah doeh panoek ai ah dungzan khoek to anghmat o.
from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
21 Nihcae hoihhaih loe anghmat moe, nihcae loe palunghahaih tawn ai ah duek o na ai maw? tiah thuih.
not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom