Job 16

1 Hahoi Job ni a pathung teh,

Bvt Iob answered, and said,

2 Hot patet e hno teh, moikapap ka thai toe, nangmouh abuemlae lungpahawinae haiyah thathoenae hrum doeh.

I haue oft times heard such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

3 Kahlî lawk teh poutnae ao maw, Hettelah pathung hane bang ni maw na tha a hmei sak.

Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere?

4 Ka kangduenae hmuen heh na kangduenae hmuen lah awm pawiteh, kai ni hai na dei awh e hah ka dei thai van han.

I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you,

5 Hateiteh, ka pahni ni tha na o sak awh han. Ka pahni dawk hoi lungroumnae lawk ni na lungmathoenae a kahma sak han.

But I woulde strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips should asswage your sorowe.

6 Lawk ka dei nakunghai ka lungmathoenae roum sak thai hoeh. Duem ka o nakunghai bang alânae awm hoeh.

Though I speake, my sorow can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I?

7 Hateiteh, ama ni na tawn sak teh, ka huikonaw puenghai kingdi sak toe.

But now hee maketh mee wearie: O God, thou hast made all my congregation desolate,

8 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.

And hast made me full of wrinkles which is a witnesse thereof, and my leannes ryseth vp in me, testifying the same in my face.

9 A lungkhueknae ni rekrek na sei teh, na hmuhma. A hâkam na kata sin teh, ka taran ni na hmaiet.

His wrath hath torne me, and hee hateth me, and gnasheth vpon mee with his teeth: mine enemie hath sharpened his eyes against me.

10 Pahni na ang sin awh teh, lungroukatetlah ka tangboung dawk na tambei. Kai na taran hanelah cungtalah a kamkhueng awh.

They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.

11 Cathut ni Cathut banglah ka ngaihoeh naw koe na pâseng, tamikathoutnaw kut dawk na tâkhawng.

God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked.

12 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.

I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe.

13 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.

His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, and powreth my gall vpon the ground.

14 Ka hmâ dawkvah patuen patuen hmâ na paca ka pahngawpahrak e ransanaw patetlah na cusin.

He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant.

15 Ka vuen dawkvah, burihni ka khui sin teh, ka lû teh vaiphu dawk ka hruek.

I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust.

16 Ka ka lawi vah ka minhmai a paling teh, ka mit dawk duenae tâhlip ao.

My face is withered with weeping, and the shadow of death is vpon mine eyes,

17 Ka kut dawk kahawihoehe hno kasake awm hoeh. Ka ratoumnae teh a thoung ei te.

Though there be no wickednesse in mine hands, and my prayer be pure.

18 Oe talai, ka thipaling heh ramuk han haw. Ka kanae ni kâhatnae hmuen tawn hanh naseh.

O earth, couer not thou my blood, and let my crying finde no place.

19 Atu patenghai, kapanuekkhaikung teh a rasangnae koevah ao.

For lo, now my witnesse is in the heauen, and my record is on hie.

20 Ka huinaw ni na dudam awh. Cathut koe ka mitphi a lawng.

My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.

21 Tami ni imri hanelah, a kâhei pouh e patetlah, oe Cathut koe na kâhet pouh hane awm haw pawiteh,

Oh that a man might pleade with God, as man with his neighbour!

22 Bangkongtetpawiteh, kum nâsittouh abaw hoehnahlan, bout ban hoeh nae lamthung dawk ka cei han telah ati.

For the yeeres accounted come, and I shall go the way, whence I shall not returne.