Job 9
1 Then Job answered and said,
To naah Job mah,
2 I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?
to lok loe amsoem, tiah ka panoek; toe kami loe kawbangmaw Sithaw hmaa ah toeng thai tih?
3 For if he would enter into judgment with him, [God] would not hearken to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.
Kami mah anih hoi lok angaek han koeh cadoeh, vai sangto thungah vaito mataeng doeh pathim thai mak ai.
4 For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?
Sithaw loe palunghahaih, thacakhaih hoiah koi; palung thah, anih ih lok aek kami loe khosak hoihaih hnuk vai maw?
5 Who wears out the mountains, and [men] know it not: who overturns them in anger.
Sithaw palungphui naah, nihcae panoek ai ah maenawk to angthuisak moe, amletsak thaih,
6 Who shakes the [earth] under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.
long to angthuisak hanah ahuenh moe, tungnawk to anghuensak.
7 Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars.
Ni tacawt han ai ah lok a thuih pae; cakaehnawk aanghaih to vingh pae khoep.
8 Who alone has stretched out the heavens, and walks on the sea as on firm ground.
Anih mah khue ni vannawk to payuengh moe, tuipui tuiphunawk to cawh thaih.
9 Who makes Pleias, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.
Anih loe Arcturus, Orian, Pleiades cakaehnawk hoi aloih bang ih cakaehnawk Sahkung ah oh.
10 Who does great and unsearchable things; glorious also and excellent things, innumerable.
Anih loe panoek thai ai kalen hmuennawk to sak; ue, kroek laek ai dawnraihaih doeh a sak.
11 If ever he should go beyond me, I shall not see him: if he should pass by me, neither thus have I known [it].
Khenah, anih ka taengah caeh naah, ka hnu thai ai; a caeh poe naah, anih to ka panoek thai ai.
12 If he would take away, who shall turn him back? or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?
Khenah, anih mah la ving nahaeloe, mi mah maw pakaa thai tih? Mi mah maw anih khaeah, Timaw na sak? tiah thui thai tih?
13 For [if] he has turned away [his] anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under him.
Sithaw palungphuihaih dip ai nahaeloe, amoek kami thapaek kaminawk loe anih hmaa ah ni akuep o sut tih.
14 Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.
Kawbangmaw anih ih lok to ka pathim thai tih? Anih hoi lok angaek hanah kawbaktih lok maw ka qoih han?
15 For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me: I will intreat his judgment.
Zaehaih ka tawn ai langlacadoeh, anih to ka aek thai mak ai; lokcaekkung khaeah loe tahmenhaih khue ni ka hnik thaih.
16 And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.
Anih to ka kawk moe, ka kawkhaih lok na pathim pae aep to mah, anih mah ka lok na tahngai pae tih, tiah ka poek ai.
17 Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause.
Anih mah takhi sae hoiah ang boh moe, takung om ai ah nganbawh kana ang pungsak.
18 For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.
Kai han anghahhaih takhi na paek ai, kakhaa patangkhanghaih hoiah ni ang koisak.
19 For indeed he is strong in power: who then shall resist his judgment?
Thacakhaih kawng thuih nahaeloe, khenah, anih loe thacak koek ah oh! Toenghaih hoi lokcaek naah doeh, mi mah maw lokcaekhaih im ah kai han lok pathim pae tih?
20 For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: and though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse.
Zaehaih tawn ai ah ka oh langlacadoeh, ka pakha mah zaehaih na net tih; coek koi om ai ah ka oh, tiah ka thuih cadoeh, ka poek angkawnhaih to amtuengsak tih.
21 For even if I have sinned, I know it not [in] my soul: but my life is taken away.
Coek koi om ai ah ka oh cadoeh, ka poekhaih ka panoek thai ai; ka hinghaih hae tiah doeh ka poek ai.
22 Wherefore I said, Wrath slays the great and mighty man.
Maeto kaom kanghmong hmuen loe, Coek koi om ai kami doeh, kasae kami doeh, amro hmaek tih, tiah ka thuih.
23 For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.
Poek ai pui hoi kami to boh maat naah, anih mah zaehaih tawn ai kami nuiah lokcaekhaih to pahnui thuih.
24 For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous [man]: he covers the faces of the judges [of the earth]: but if it be not he, who is it?
Long loe kasae kami ban ah paek moe, lokcaekkungnawk to mikmaengsak; to hmuen to Sithaw mah sah ai nahaeloe, mi mah maw sah tih?
25 But my life is swifter than a post: [my days] have fled away, and they knew it not.
Ka hinghaih aninawk loe ca phawkung pongah doeh rang o kue; nihcae loe hoihhaih hnu ai ah, cawnh o.
26 Or again, is there a trace of [their] path [left] by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks [its] prey?
To aninawk loe cawnh karang palongpui baktiah laemh o moe, moi cop hanah karangah kazawk tahmu baktiah oh o.
27 And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;
Laisaephaih ka pahnet han boeh, poekraihaih ka toengh moe, ka pahnui han boeh, tiah ka thuih cadoeh,
28 I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone [as] innocent.
ka tongh ih patangkhanghaih to ka zit, kai hae zaehaih tawn ai kami ni, tiah Na poek mak ai, tito ka panoek.
29 But since I am ungodly, why have I not died?
Kahoih ai kami ah ka oh nahaeloe, tih hanah azom pui ah tok ka sak khing vop loe?
30 For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,
Ka takpum hae dantui hoi kam saeh moe, ka ban hae kaciim ah kam saeh cadoeh,
31 thou hadst thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.
Sithaw mah tangnong thungah na va ueloe, ka khukbuen mah ka takpum hae panuet tih.
32 For thou art not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.
Lokcaekhaih ahmuen ah nawnto a caeh o moe, a lok pathim hanah, Sithaw loe kai baktiah om ai.
33 Would that [he] our mediator were [present], and a reprover, and one who should hear [the cause] between both.
Aihnik lokcaek hmaek hanah, aicae salakah kaom kami mi doeh om ai.
34 Let him remove [his] rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Lokcaekhaih angmah ih cung to kai khae hoiah la ving nasoe loe, zitthok a sak ih hmuen mah na pazih hmah nasoe.
35 so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious [of guilt].
To tiah nahaeloe anih zithaih tawn ai ah lok to ka thuih han; toe vaihi loe lok ka thui thai ai.
