Job 3
1 Hathnukkhu, Job ni a pahni dawk hoi a khenae hnin hah thoe a bo.
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 Job ni ati e teh,
And Job spoke, and said:
3 ka khenae hnin hah kahmat pawiteh, capa a vawn ati e tangmin hai kahmat pawiteh,
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein it was said: 'A man-child is brought forth.'
4 Hatnae hnin hah hmonae lah awm pawiteh, Cathut ni lathueng lahoi khen hanh naseh. Hoehpawiteh, angnae ang hanh naseh.
Let that day be darkness; let not God inquire after it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Hmonae hoi duenae tâhlip ni ramuk naseh, tâmai ni ramuk e, kanîthun e hmonae ni pakhi naseh.
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
6 Hatnae tangmin hah hmonae ni kuen naseh, hatnae kum dawk e hninnaw dawkvah lunghawi van hanh naseh. Thapa touknae dawk hai bawk hanh naseh.
As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Oe, hatnae tangmin hah kingkadi e tangmin lah awm pawiteh, lunghawinae kamthang pai hanh naseh.
Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Tuitam thaw sak hane coungkacoe kaawmnaw ni, hatnae hnin hah, thoekâbonaw ni thoebo awh naseh.
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 Hatnae tangmin amom lae âsi hah mawm naseh, angnae hah tawng awh naseh. Hateiteh, hmawt awh hanh naseh. Kanî a tâco e hai, hmawt hanh naseh.
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning;
10 Bangkongtetpawiteh, anu e thun hah khan hoeh eiteh, ka mithmu vah, ka lungmathoenae hah kâhrawk hoeh.
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
11 Bangkongmaw ka tâco tahma vah, ka due hoeh va. Bangkongmaw von dawk hoi ka tâco nah, kahmakata hoeh va.
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth?
12 Bangkongmaw phai dawk tawm e lah ka o, bangkongmaw ka nei hane sanutui na pânei.
Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
13 Bangkongtetpawiteh, ka i vaiteh, karoumcalah ka o han ei, mat ka i vaiteh, ka kâhat hane boum.
For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest —
14 Talai siangpahrang hoi khokhangkungnaw, ka rawk e bout ka kangdout sakkungnaw hoi vah,
With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
15 hoehpawiteh, sui ka tawn e tami ka lentoe e, a im dawk ngun hoi kakawi sak naw hoi vah,
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16 hoehpawiteh, thakoup hoehnahlan ka khe e camo, angnae kahmawt boihoeh e, camo patetlah, kapawk e lah ka o hoeh va.
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.
17 Hawvah tamikathoutnaw ni, runae a sak e hah a kâhat awh teh, hawvah thakatawnnaw hah a kâhat awh.
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
18 Hawvah thongkabawt e cungtalah a kâhat awh teh, repcoungroe pawlawk hai thai hoeh toe.
There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
19 Hawvah tami kathoung kalen naw cungtalah ao awh teh, a sannaw hah a bawi koehoi a hlout.
The small and great are there alike; and the servant is free from his master.
20 Bangkongmaw runae ka khang e koevah, angnae poe e lah ao teh, bangdawkmaw a lung ka mathout e koe hringnae hah poe e lah ao.
Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul —
21 Due han a ngai poung, hateiteh, tho hoeh. Pakawp e râw hlak vah, hoe ka pataw e ka tawng e,
Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22 phuen a hmu awh navah, dei thai hoeh e a lung kahawi katang e koevah,
Who rejoice unto exultation, and are glad, when they can find the grave? —
23 bangdawkmaw a lamthung hro lah kaawm e koevah, angnae hah poe e lah ao. Cathut ni rapan hoi kalupsin e koevah,
To a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24 Bangkongtetpawiteh, rawca yueng lah ka cingou teh ka khuikanae mitphi hai tui ka lawng e palang patetlah doeh ao.
For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.
25 Bangkongtetpawiteh, ka takipoung e hah, ka tak dawk a pha teh, ka ngaihri poung e ni na thosin.
For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.
26 Ka phunep hoeh dawk duem kaawm thai hoeh. Kâhat panuek hoeh, bangkongtetpawiteh, rucatnae ni a pha telah ati.
I was not at ease, neither was I quiet, neither had I rest; but trouble came.
