¹And Job answered and said,

¹¶ Katahi ka whakautua e Hopa, i mea ia,

²Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

²I tenei ra nei ano e amuamu ana taku tangi: nui noa atu i taku aue te taimaha o te patunga i ahau.

³Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat!

³Aue, me i mohio ahau ki te wahi e kite ai ahau i a ia, kia tae rawa atu ai ahau ki tona nohoanga!

⁴I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;

⁴Ka ata whakatakotoria e ahau aku korero ki tona aroaro, ka whakakiia hoki toku mangai ki nga kupu tautohetohe.

⁵I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

⁵Ka mohio ahau ki nga kupu e whakahokia mai e ia ki ahau, ka marama hoki tana e mea ai ki ahau.

⁶Would he plead against me with [his] great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.

⁶E whakaputaina mai ranei tona kaha nui ina tautohetohe ki ahau? Kahore; engari ka whai whakaaro ia ki ahau.

⁷There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge.

⁷Ko reira te tangata tika tautohetohe ai ki a ia: a ora tonu ake ahau i toku kaiwhakawa ake tonu atu.

⁸Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;

⁸¶ Nana, haere ana ahau ki mua, a kahore ia i reira; ki muri, heoi kahore ahau e kite i a ia:

⁹On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold [him] not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see [him] not.

⁹Ki maui, ina ka mahi ia, heoi kahore ahau e kite i a ia; e huna ana ia i a ia ano i te taha ki matau, te kite ahau i a ia.

¹⁰But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.

¹⁰Otiia e mohio ana ia ki te ara e anga atu ai ahau: kia oti ahau te titiro iho e ia, ano he koura ahau i toku putanga mai.

¹¹My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.

¹¹Mau pu ona takahanga i toku waewae; u pu ahau ki tona ara, kihai hoki i peka ke.

¹²Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.

¹²Kihai hoki i mahue i ahau te whakahau a ona ngutu; ko nga kupu a tona mangai rongoa rawa ki ahau, nui atu i te kai i rite maku.

¹³But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do.

¹³¶ Ko ia, kotahi tonu tona whakaaro, a ma wai ia e whakatahuri ke? Ko ta tona ngakau hoki i hiahia ai e meatia ana e ia.

¹⁴For he will perform [what] is appointed for me; and many such things are with him.

¹⁴E whakaotia ana hoki e ia nga mea i whakaritea moku: he maha ano hoki ana mahi pera.

¹⁵Therefore am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him.

¹⁵Koia ahau i ohorere ai i tona aroaro: ka whakaaroaro ahau, ka wehi i a ia.

¹⁶For ùGod hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;

¹⁶Ngohe noa hoki toku ngakau i te Atua, ohorere ana ahau i te Kaha Rawa.

¹⁷Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.

¹⁷Kihai nei hoki ahau i whakangaromia i mua o te pouri, kihai hoki i hipokina e ia te pouri i toku aroaro.