Job 3
Asang Khongca Bible (Eastern Khumi Chin, 2019)
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
1Hae tiah oh pacoengah, Job mah pakha aangh moe, angmah tapenhaih ni to kasae thuih.
1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2Job mah hae tiah thuih,
2And Job spoke, and said:
3ka tapenhaih ni hae amro nasoe, ca nongpa pomh boeh, tiah thuihaih aqum to amro nasoe.
3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein it was said: 'A man-child is brought forth.'
4To ni to khoving nasoe; ranui bang ih Sithaw mah tidoeh sah pae hmah nasoe; a nuiah aanghaih doeh om hmah nasoe.
4Let that day be darkness; let not God inquire after it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5Vinghaih hoi duekhaih tahlip mah to ani to kai ih ani ni, tiah thui o nasoe; a nuiah tamai amzam nasoe loe, kaving ani mah pazih nasoe.
5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
6To ni to vinghaih kathah mah khuk khoep nasoe; saningto thung kaom aninawk thungah athum hmah nasoe loe, kawbaktih khrah thungah doeh kroek ah om hmah nasoe.
6As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
7Khenah, to aqum loe angqai krang nasoe loe, a thungah anghoehaih lok om hmah nasoe.
7Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein.
8Ani tangoeng kami, palungsethaih angthawksak thaih kaminawk mah to aqum to tangoeng o nasoe.
8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9Akhawnbang cakaehnawk loe ving o nasoe loe, a zing o ih khodai to hnu o hmah nasoe, akhawnbang khodai doeh hnu o hmah nasoe;
9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning;
10raihaih ka tongh han ai ah, aqum mah kam no ih zok to pakaa ai pongah kasae ah om nasoe.
10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
11Tipongah maw zok thungah ka duek moe, tapen tangsuek naah kam ro ving ai?
11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth?
12Tih han ih khokkhu nuiah ang tapom moe, naek hanah tahnu ang pazohsak?
12Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
13To tiah na sah ai nahaeloe vaihi loe kamongah kang song moe, kang hngai duem han boeh; ka iip ueloe, kang hak tih boeh,
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest —
14angmacae amro haih hanah toksah long siangpahrangnawk hoi angraengnawk,
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
15to tih ai boeh loe sui katawn mangh, im koimong ah sumkanglung kasuem ukkungnawk hoi nawnto ka laem tih boeh,
15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16to tih ai boeh loe khrah akoep ai ah tapen nawkta baktih, aanghaih hnu vai ai nawkta baktiah amro han ka koeh boeh.
16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.
17To duekhaih ahmuen ah loe kasae kaminawk mah raihaih paek mak ai boeh; patangkhang kaminawk doeh anghak o tih boeh.
17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
18To ahmuen ah loe thongkrah kaminawk doeh nawnto anghak o; pacaekthlaek kami ih lok to thaih o ai boeh.
18There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
19To ahmuen ah loe kami kalen doeh, kathoeng doeh nawnto oh o moe, tamna doeh angmah ih angraeng ban thung hoiah loih boeh.
19The small and great are there alike; and the servant is free from his master.
20Tipongah maw patangkhang kami hanah aanghaih paek moe, poeksae kami hanah hinghaih to paek?
20Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul —
21Patangkhang kaminawk loe atho kana hmuennawk pakrong pongah duek han ih koeh o kue, toe dueh o thai ai;
21Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22nihcae mah taprong hnuk o naah, paroeai anghoe o moe, nawm o.
22Who rejoice unto exultation, and are glad, when they can find the grave? —
23Tipongah maw a caehhaih loklam anghmang kami hoi Sithaw mah pakaa ih kami khaeah hinghaih to paek?
23To a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24Buhcaak zuengah kana ahamhaih lok to oh, kana hanghaih lok loe tui baktiah long.
24For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.
25Ka zit parai ih hmuen to ka nuiah phak boeh, ka zit ih hmuen kai khaeah angzoh boeh.
25For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.
26Kai loe monghaih tawn ai, anghakhaih doeh ka tawn ai; raihaih hoiah ni ka oh sut boeh, tiah a thuih.
26I was not at ease, neither was I quiet, neither had I rest; but trouble came.
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