Joba 35

Baibal Olcim (Matupi Chin)

Berean Standard Bible

1Elihu loh koep a doo tih,

1And Elihu went on to say:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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