Job 16
1 But Job answered and said,
Hahoi Job ni a pathung teh,
2 I have heard many such things: poor comforters are you all.
Hot patet e hno teh, moikapap ka thai toe, nangmouh abuemlae lungpahawinae haiyah thathoenae hrum doeh.
3 What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder you from answering?
Kahlî lawk teh poutnae ao maw, Hettelah pathung hane bang ni maw na tha a hmei sak.
4 I also will speak as you [do]: if indeed your soul were in my [soul's] stead, then would I insult you with words, and I would shake my head at you.
Ka kangduenae hmuen heh na kangduenae hmuen lah awm pawiteh, kai ni hai na dei awh e hah ka dei thai van han.
5 And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.
Hateiteh, ka pahni ni tha na o sak awh han. Ka pahni dawk hoi lungroumnae lawk ni na lungmathoenae a kahma sak han.
6 For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less?
Lawk ka dei nakunghai ka lungmathoenae roum sak thai hoeh. Duem ka o nakunghai bang alânae awm hoeh.
7 But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; and you have laid hold of me.
Hateiteh, ama ni na tawn sak teh, ka huikonaw puenghai kingdi sak toe.
8 My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.
Nama ni khakkatek teh, hot ni kai hanelah kapanuekkhaikung lah ao. Ka kamsoenae ni yon na pen teh, hot ni ka minhmai dawk ka panuek khai e lah ao.
9 In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.
A lungkhueknae ni rekrek na sei teh, na hmuhma. A hâkam na kata sin teh, ka taran ni na hmaiet.
10 He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp [spear] he has struck me [down] upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord.
Pahni na ang sin awh teh, lungroukatetlah ka tangboung dawk na tambei. Kai na taran hanelah cungtalah a kamkhueng awh.
11 For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.
Cathut ni Cathut banglah ka ngaihoeh naw koe na pâseng, tamikathoutnaw kut dawk na tâkhawng.
12 When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.
Kanawmcalah ka o eiteh, ama ni rekrek na bawng. Ka lahuen dawk na man teh, bengbeng na kahuet teh, rek ka kâbawng, kai teh tâkhawng hanelah ka o.
13 They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing [me] they poured out my gall upon the ground.
Ahnie pala kakanaw ni na kalup awh. Ka lung poukkayawng lah na ka teh, na pahren hoeh, talai dawk ka hmu e tui hah a ka rabawk.
14 They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in [their] might.
Ka hmâ dawkvah patuen patuen hmâ na paca ka pahngawpahrak e ransanaw patetlah na cusin.
15 They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.
Ka vuen dawkvah, burihni ka khui sin teh, ka lû teh vaiphu dawk ka hruek.
16 My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids.
Ka ka lawi vah ka minhmai a paling teh, ka mit dawk duenae tâhlip ao.
17 Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Ka kut dawk kahawihoehe hno kasake awm hoeh. Ka ratoumnae teh a thoung ei te.
18 Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place.
Oe talai, ka thipaling heh ramuk han haw. Ka kanae ni kâhatnae hmuen tawn hanh naseh.
19 And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.
Atu patenghai, kapanuekkhaikung teh a rasangnae koevah ao.
20 Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.
Ka huinaw ni na dudam awh. Cathut koe ka mitphi a lawng.
21 Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even [as] the son of man with his neighbour!
Tami ni imri hanelah, a kâhei pouh e patetlah, oe Cathut koe na kâhet pouh hane awm haw pawiteh,
22 But my years are numbered and [their end] come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.
Bangkongtetpawiteh, kum nâsittouh abaw hoehnahlan, bout ban hoeh nae lamthung dawk ka cei han telah ati.
