¹And Job answered and said,

¹Huchiin Jobin a dawnga, hichiin a chi a:

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

²Tuni mahmahin ka phunna helhuai ahi: ka thuakna ka mauna sangin a gikjaw hi.

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

³Aw amah ka muhna mun thei lengla, a tutna mahmah ah hoh thei leng aw!

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

⁴A maah ka thu ka bawlhoih dia, thugentein ka kam dimsak ding hi veng.

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

⁵A honna dawnna ding thute ka thei dia, huan bang ahia ka kianga a gen ding ka theisiam ding.

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

⁶A thilhihtheihna letnain kei a honsel diam? Ii; himahleh kei a honlimsak ding hi.

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

⁷Huailaiah mi dikin amah thu a sutpih thei dia; huchiin ka vaihawmmi akipan suahtaksakin ka om tawntungta ding hi.

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

⁸Ngaiin, mailam juanin ka paia, himahleh huailaiah a om kei; huan nunglam juanin, himahleh amah ka mu kei hi.

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.

⁹Veilam pangah, na sep laiin, himahleh amah ka mu theikeia: taklam pangah a bu, amah ka muh theihlouhna dingin.

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

¹⁰Hiamhleh ka zuih lampi a thei a; a hon zeet laiin, dangkaeng bangin ka honsuakkhe ding hi.

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

¹¹Ka khein a kalsuante a len kipa; a lampi ka juita, ka pial kei.

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.

¹²A mukte thupiak akipan ka pai kik keia, a kama thute a kiphamoh ka an sangin ka kholkhawm jaw hi.

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

¹³Himahleh amah lungsim khek lou ahia, amah kuan a hei thei dia? a khain a deih, huai mah a hih jel hi.

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

¹⁴Kei dia sehsa a hih ngala: huan thil huchibang tampi a kiangah a om hi.

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

¹⁵Huaijiakin a omna ah ka buaia; ka ngaihtuah chiangin amah ka lau hi.

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

¹⁶Pathianin lah ka lungtang a bahsakta ngala, huan Thilbangkimhihtheiin a honhihbuaita hi.Khomial main satkhiakin ka om ngal keia, ka maia kipan khomial sah leng a khuh sam kei hi.

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

¹⁷Khomial main satkhiakin ka om ngal keia, ka maia kipan khomial sah leng a khuh sam kei hi.