Job 35

Berean Standard Bible

Baibal Olcim (Matupi Chin)

1And Elihu went on to say:

1Elihu loh koep a doo tih,

2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

2“'Patheni lakah kamah duengnah ngai,’ na ti te tiktamnah la na poek a te?

3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

3'Ka tholhnah lamloh nang hamla balae a hmaiben tih balae a hoeikhang,’ na ti.

4I will reply to you and to your friends as well.

4Namah neh na taengkah na hui rhoek kah olthui te ka thuung eh.

5Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

5Vaan ke paelki lamtah hmu van lah. Nang lakah aka sang khomong ke dan lah.

6If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

6Na tholh koinih amah te metlam a ben eh? Na boekoeknah pungtai koinih amah taengah balae a saii eh.

7If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

7Na tang atah amah taengah balae na paek? Na kut lamloh balae a loh?

8Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

8Nang bang, na halangnah khaw hlang ham tih na duengnah khaw hlang capa ham ni.

9Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.

9Hnaemtaeknah cungkuem hmuiah aka tlung bantha lamloh bombih hamla pang uh.

10But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

10Tedae, “Kai aka saii tih khoyin ah laa aka pae Pathen te ta?

11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

11Diklai rhamsa lakah mamih n'cang puei tih vaan kah vaa lakah mamih n'cueih sak,’ a ti moenih.

12There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

12Pang uh pahoi cakhaw boethae rhoek kah hoemdamnah hmai ah tah a doo moenih.

13Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.

13Patheni loh a poeyoek la hnatun pawt tih Tlungthang long khaw a hmuhming moenih.

14How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,

14A hmuhming pawt tih na thui vaeng aisat, dumlai pataeng amah mikhmuh ah a pha dongah amah mah rhingda laeh.

15and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!

15Tedae a thintoek te cawh voel pawt oeh coeng tih halangnah te khaw ming voel pawh.

16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

16Job loh a honghi la a ka a ang tih mingnah om pawt ah a olthui yet,” a ti.

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