Job 3
1 Hathnukkhu, Job ni a pahni dawk hoi a khenae hnin hah thoe a bo.
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
2 Job ni ati e teh,
Job answered:
3 ka khenae hnin hah kahmat pawiteh, capa a vawn ati e tangmin hai kahmat pawiteh,
"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'A man is conceived.'
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. May God above not care about it, neither let the light shine on 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 on it. Let the blackness of 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 on 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.
Look, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come in it.
8 Tuitam thaw sak hane coungkacoe kaawmnaw ni, hatnae hnin hah, thoekâbonaw ni thoebo awh naseh.
Let them curse it who 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 its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
10 Bangkongtetpawiteh, anu e thun hah khan hoeh eiteh, ka mithmu vah, ka lungmathoenae hah kâhrawk hoeh.
because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
11 Bangkongmaw ka tâco tahma vah, ka due hoeh va. Bangkongmaw von dawk hoi ka tâco nah, kahmakata hoeh va.
"Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
12 Bangkongmaw phai dawk tawm e lah ka o, bangkongmaw ka nei hane sanutui na pânei.
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, 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 down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
14 Talai siangpahrang hoi khokhangkungnaw, ka rawk e bout ka kangdout sakkungnaw hoi vah,
with kings and counselors 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 who 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 who 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. 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 do not hear 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 the great are there. 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.
"Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to 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 doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22 phuen a hmu awh navah, dei thai hoeh e a lung kahawi katang e koevah,
who rejoice exceedingly, 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,
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has 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 comes before I eat. My groanings 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 fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.
26 Ka phunep hoeh dawk duem kaawm thai hoeh. Kâhat panuek hoeh, bangkongtetpawiteh, rucatnae ni a pha telah ati.
I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."
