Job 35
1 And Elihu went on to say:
Elihu loh koep a doo tih,
2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
“‘Pathen lakah kamah duengnah ngai,’ na ti te tiktamnah la na poek a te?
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
‘Ka tholhnah lamloh nang hamla balae a hmaiben tih balae a hoeikhang,’ na ti.
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
Namah neh na taengkah na hui rhoek kah olthui te ka thuung eh.
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Vaan ke paelki lamtah hmu van lah. Nang lakah aka sang khomong ke dan lah.
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
Na tholh koinih amah te metlam a ben eh? Na boekoeknah pungtai koinih amah taengah balae a saii eh.
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
Na tang atah amah taengah balae na paek? Na kut lamloh balae a loh?
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Nang bang, na halangnah khaw hlang ham tih na duengnah khaw hlang capa ham ni.
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
Hnaemtaeknah cungkuem hmuiah aka tlung bantha lamloh bomnah bih hamla pang uh.
10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
Tedae, “Kai aka saii tih khoyin ah laa aka pae Pathen te ta?
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
Diklai rhamsa lakah mamih n'cang puei tih vaan kah vaa lakah mamih n'cueih sak,’ a ti moenih.
12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Pang uh pahoi cakhaw boethae rhoek kah hoemdamnah hmai ah tah a doo moenih.
13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
Pathen loh a poeyoek la hnatun pawt tih Tlungthang long khaw a hmuhming moenih.
14 How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
A hmuhming pawt tih na thui vaeng aisat, dumlai pataeng amah mikhmuh ah a pha dongah amah mah rhingda laeh.
15 and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
Tedae a thintoek te cawh voel pawt oeh coeng tih halangnah te khaw ming voel pawh.
16 So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
Job loh a honghi la a ka a ang tih mingnah om pawt ah a olthui yet,” a ti.
