Job 9
1 Then Job answered,
To naah Job mah,
2 “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
to lok loe amsoem, tiah ka panoek; toe kami loe kawbangmaw Sithaw hmaa ah toeng thai tih?
3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
Kami mah anih hoi lok angaek han koeh cadoeh, vai sangto thungah vaito mataeng doeh pathim thai mak ai.
4 God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
Sithaw loe palunghahaih, thacakhaih hoiah koi; palung thah, anih ih lok aek kami loe khosak hoihaih hnuk vai maw?
5 He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
Sithaw palungphui naah, nihcae panoek ai ah maenawk to angthuisak moe, amletsak thaih,
6 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
long to angthuisak hanah ahuenh moe, tungnawk to anghuensak.
7 He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
Ni tacawt han ai ah lok a thuih pae; cakaehnawk aanghaih to vingh pae khoep.
8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
Anih mah khue ni vannawk to payuengh moe, tuipui tuiphunawk to cawh thaih.
9 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
Anih loe Arcturus, Orian, Pleiades cakaehnawk hoi aloih bang ih cakaehnawk Sahkung ah oh.
10 He does great things past finding out; yes, marvellous things without number.
Anih loe panoek thai ai kalen hmuennawk to sak; ue, kroek laek ai dawnraihaih doeh a sak.
11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
Khenah, anih ka taengah caeh naah, ka hnu thai ai; a caeh poe naah, anih to ka panoek thai ai.
12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
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 “God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
Sithaw palungphuihaih dip ai nahaeloe, amoek kami thapaek kaminawk loe anih hmaa ah ni akuep o sut tih.
14 How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
Kawbangmaw anih ih lok to ka pathim thai tih? Anih hoi lok angaek hanah kawbaktih lok maw ka qoih han?
15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
Zaehaih ka tawn ai langlacadoeh, anih to ka aek thai mak ai; lokcaekkung khaeah loe tahmenhaih khue ni ka hnik thaih.
16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he 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 For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
Anih mah takhi sae hoiah ang boh moe, takung om ai ah nganbawh kana ang pungsak.
18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Kai han anghahhaih takhi na paek ai, kakhaa patangkhanghaih hoiah ni ang koisak.
19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
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 Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me 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 I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
Coek koi om ai ah ka oh cadoeh, ka poekhaih ka panoek thai ai; ka hinghaih hae tiah doeh ka poek ai.
22 “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
Maeto kaom kanghmong hmuen loe, Coek koi om ai kami doeh, kasae kami doeh, amro hmaek tih, tiah ka thuih.
23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
Poek ai pui hoi kami to boh maat naah, anih mah zaehaih tawn ai kami nuiah lokcaekhaih to pahnui thuih.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then 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 “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
Ka hinghaih aninawk loe ca phawkung pongah doeh rang o kue; nihcae loe hoihhaih hnu ai ah, cawnh o.
26 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
To aninawk loe cawnh karang palongpui baktiah laemh o moe, moi cop hanah karangah kazawk tahmu baktiah oh o.
27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
Laisaephaih ka pahnet han boeh, poekraihaih ka toengh moe, ka pahnui han boeh, tiah ka thuih cadoeh,
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
ka tongh ih patangkhanghaih to ka zit, kai hae zaehaih tawn ai kami ni, tiah Na poek mak ai, tito ka panoek.
29 I will be condemned. Why then do I labour in vain?
Kahoih ai kami ah ka oh nahaeloe, tih hanah azom pui ah tok ka sak khing vop loe?
30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
Ka takpum hae dantui hoi kam saeh moe, ka ban hae kaciim ah kam saeh cadoeh,
31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
Sithaw mah tangnong thungah na va ueloe, ka khukbuen mah ka takpum hae panuet tih.
32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgement.
Lokcaekhaih ahmuen ah nawnto a caeh o moe, a lok pathim hanah, Sithaw loe kai baktiah om ai.
33 There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
Aihnik lokcaek hmaek hanah, aicae salakah kaom kami mi doeh om ai.
34 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
Lokcaekhaih angmah ih cung to kai khae hoiah la ving nasoe loe, zitthok a sak ih hmuen mah na pazih hmah nasoe.
35 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.
To tiah nahaeloe anih zithaih tawn ai ah lok to ka thuih han; toe vaihi loe lok ka thui thai ai.
