Joba 24
1 Balae tih Tlungthang taeng lamkah a tue te a khoem uh pawh. Amah aka ming, amah aka ming loh a khohnin te hmu uh pawh.
But why have the seasons been hidden from the Lord,
2 Rhilung a rhawt uh, tuping a rhawth uh tih a luem sak uh.
while the ungodly have passed over the bound, carrying off the flock with the shepherd?
3 Cadah kah laak te a vai pah tih, nuhmai kah vaito te a laikoi pa uh.
They have led away, the ass of the fatherless, and taken the widow's ox for a pledge.
4 Khodaeng rhoek te longpuei lamloh a tulh tih, khohmuen kah mangdaeng rhoek khaw rhenten a thuh.
They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.
5 Amamih kah bisai la khosoek ah kohong marhang bangla pawk uh coeng ke. Amah ham kolken maeh neh camoe ham buh khaw a toem uh.
And they have departed like asses in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order: his bread is sweet to [his] little ones.
6 Lohma ah a kamvuelh te a ah, a ah uh tih halang misurdum kah a yoep uh.
They have reaped a field that was not their own before the time: the poor have laboured in the vineyards of the ungodly without pay and without food.
7 Pumtling rhoek te pueinak tling la a rhaehba sak uh tih, khosik vaengah himbai mueh uh.
They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body.
8 Tlang kah cingtui loh a het uh tih, hlipyingnah a om mueh la lungpang a kop uh.
They are wet with the drops of the mountains: they have embraced the rock, because they had no shelter.
9 Cadah khaw rhangsuk lamloh a suh uh tih, mangdaeng rhoek te a laikoi.
They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.
10 Pumtling loh pueinak tling la van tih, bungpong doela canghmoek a puen.
And they have wrongfully caused [others] to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the hungry.
11 A pangbueng ah situi a kuelh tih va-am a cawt uh lalah tui hal uh.
They have unrighteously laid wait in narrow places, and have not known the righteous way.
12 Khopuei lamkah hlang rhoek loh nguekcoi uh tih, duekrhok hinglu loh bomnah a bih. Tedae Pathen loh a hohap te a dueh moenih.
Who have cast forth [the] poor from the city and their own houses, and the soul of the children has groaned aloud.
13 Amih te vangnah aka tloelh lakli ah om uh tih a longpuei hmat uh pawh. Te dongah a hawn ah khosa uh pawh.
Why then has he not visited these? forasmuch as they were upon the earth, and took no notice, and they knew not the way of righteousness, neither have they walked in their [appointed] paths?
14 Hlang aka ngawn loh vangnah hnukah thoo tih, mangdaeng neh khodaeng te a rhaem. Khoyin ah hlanghuen bangla om.
But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness: and in the night one will be as a thief:
15 Samphaih mik loh hlaemhmah a lamtawn. Hlang mik loh kai m'mae mahpawh a ti dongah, a maelhmai te a huephael la a khueh.
and the eye of the adulterer has watched [for] the darkness, saying, Eye shall not perceive me, and he puts a covering on his face.
16 A hmuep vaengah im a muk. Khothaih ah amih te a tlaeng uh tih, vangnah te ming uh pawh.
In darkness he digs through houses: by day they conceal themselves securely: they know not the light.
17 Dueknah hlipkhup mueirhih neh a hmat uh rhoi dongah dueknah hlipkhup te mincang neh amih taengah rhenten thoeng.
For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death, for [each] will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death.
18 Anih te tui hman ah hoeptuep. Amih kah hmakhuen te diklai ah a tap dongah, misurdum kah longpuei la mop voel pawh.
He is swift on the face of the water: let his portion be cursed on the earth; and let their plants be laid bare.
19 Rhamrhae neh kholing ah, tui khaw rhaeng tih vuelsong khaw saelkhui ah tholh coeng. (Sheol h7585)
[Let them be] withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless. (Sheol h7585)
20 A bung loh anih a hnilh hil ah a rhit te a poek voel pawt hil a tui sak. Tedae dumlai tah thing bangla tlawt.
Then is his sin brought to remembrance, and he vanishes like a vapor of dew: but let what he has done be recompensed to him, and let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.
21 Ca aka cun mueh caya aka luem puei neh nuhmai khaw loha pawh.
For he has not treated the barren woman well, and has had no pity on a feeble woman.
22 Aka lueng pataeng a thadueng neh a kuel tih thoo mai dae hingnah dongah tangnah om pawh.
And in wrath he has overthrown the helpless: therefore when he has arisen, [a man] will not feel secure of his own life.
23 Anih te ngaikhuek la pae saeh lamtah hangdang saeh. Tedae Amih longpuei ah a mik a paelki.
When he has fallen sick, let him not hope to recover: but let him perish by disease.
24 Bet a pomsang uh vaengah amih te pahoi om uh pawt tih tlumhmawn uh. A pum la a buem uh tih cangmo vueilue bangla a baih uh.
For his exaltation has hurt many; but he has withered as mallows in the heat, or as an ear of corn falling off of itself from the stalk.
25 Te pawt koinih unim kai aka laithae sak? Ka ol he a hong bangla a khueh mako,” a ti.
But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely, and will make my words of no account?
