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.
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2 Rhilung a rhawt uh, tuping a rhawth uh tih a luem sakuh.
[Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].
3 Cadah kah laak te a vai pah tih nuhmai kah vaito te a laikoi pauh.
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take 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 turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide 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.
Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.
6 Lohma ah a kamvuelh te a ah, a ah uh tih halang misurdum kah a yoep uh.
They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
7 Pumtling rhoek te pueinak tling la a rhaehba sak uh tih khosik vaengah himbai mueh uh.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.
8 Tlang kah cingtui loh a het uh tih hlipyingnah a om mueh la lungpang a kop uh.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
9 Cadah khaw rhangsuk lamloh a suh uh tih mangdaeng rhoek te a laikoi.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10 Pumtling loh pueinak tling van tih bungpong doela canghmoek a puen.
They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
11 A pangbueng ah situi a kuelh tih va-am a cawt uh lalah tui hal uh.
[Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12 Khopuei lamkah hlang rhoek loh nguekcoi uh tih duekrhok hinglu loh bomnah a bih. Tedae Pathen loh ahohap te a dueh moenih.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].
13 Amih te vangnah aka tloelh lakli ah om uh tih a longpuei hmat uh pawh. Te dongah a hawn ah khosa uh pawh.
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14 Hlang aka ngawn loh vangnah hnukah thoo tih mangdaeng neh khodaeng te a rhaem. Khoyin ah hlanghuen bangla om.
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is 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.
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.
16 A hmuep vaengah im a muk. Khothaih ah amih te a tlaeng uh tih vangnah te ming uh pawh.
In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: 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 even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors 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 as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
19 Rhamrhae neh kholing ah, tui khaw rhaeng tih vuelsong khaw saelkhui ah tholh coeng. (Sheol h7585)
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] have sinned. (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.
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
21 Ca aka cun mueh caya aka luem puei neh nuhmai khaw loha pawh.
He evil entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22 Aka lueng pataeng a thadueng neh a kuel tih thoo mai dae hingnah dongah tangnah om pawh.
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.
23 Anih te ngaikhuek la pae saeh lamtah hangdang saeh. Tedae Amih longpuei ah a mik a paelki.
[Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes [are] upon their ways.
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.
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [other], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
25 Te pawt koinih unim kai aka laithae sak? Ka ol he a hong bangla a khueh mako,” a ti.
And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
