¹After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

¹Hiai khitin Jobin a kam a kaa, a ni a hamsiat ta hi.

²And Job answered and said,

²Huan Jobin a dawnga hichiin a chi hi:

³Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.

³Ka pianna ni leh jan, Pasal naupang paiin a om, a kichihna mangthang hen.

⁴That day -- let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:

⁴Huai ni mialna hihen; tunglam akipan Pathianin kah dah hen, a tungah leng khovak tang kei hen.

⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.

⁵Khomial leh sihna limin amau adingin huai ngen uhen; a tungah meipi kai hen; khua nimsak tengtengin huai tuh lausak uhen.

⁶That night -- let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

⁶Jan a hihleh, mial sah bikbek a tungah tu hen; kum nite lakah kipak kei hen; khate simna ah tel kei heh.

⁷Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;

⁷Ngaiin, huai jan hut hen; huaiah kipah aw hong kei hen.

⁸Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;

⁸Huai ni hamsiat amauten hamsiat uhen, leviathan tokthou dinga mansaa om te.

⁹Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:

⁹Huaia khomui aksite mial uhen: khovak zong henla, himahleh bangmah neikei hen; jingsang mitvunte leng mu sam kei hen:

¹⁰Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.

¹⁰Ka nu sul kongkhakte a khak louh jiakin, ka mit akipana buaina a sel louh jiakin.

¹¹Wherefore did I not die from the womb, -- come forth from the belly and expire?

¹¹Sul akipana bang dia silou ka hia? gil akipan ka hongpai khiak laia bangdia kha khah lou kahia?

¹²Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

¹²Bangdia khukten kei honsang uh ahia? Ahihkeileh bangdia ka tep ding, nawiten?

¹³For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

¹³Tuchiangin na lum khina na dai mai ding lah ka hi ngala; ka na ihmuta dia; huchiin ka nakhawlta ding hi:

¹⁴With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,

¹⁴Lei kumpipate leh thudotmite, amau adinga mun siate bawlte toh;

¹⁵Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

¹⁵Ahihkeileh dangkaeng nei lalte, a inte uh dangkaa dimsakte toh;

¹⁶Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

¹⁶Ahihkeileh muh louha a hunloua piang bang na hilou ka hia, naungek khovak mu ngeiloute bang?

¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.

¹⁷Huaiah mi gilouten sukbuai a tawpsan ua; huan huaiah mitawlte a khawl uh.

¹⁸The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

¹⁸Huai ah suangkulha tangte nuamin a om khawm uh; nasep heutu aw a za kei uh.

¹⁹The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.

¹⁹Huaiah a lian leh a neu a om ua; huan a pu akipanin sikha a nuamlen.

²⁰Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,

²⁰Bangdia daha om kianga khovak piak ahia, khaa haksa sa kiangah hinna;

²¹Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

²¹Sihna deiha, lah a tunlouhnate kiangah; huan gou sel guk zon sanga thupia zongmite kiang ah;

²²Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? --

²²Han a tun lai ua, nakpitaka kipakte kiang ah?

²³To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?

²³Bangdia mi a lampi sela om kiang leh Pathianin a umsuak kianga khovak piaka om ahia?

²⁴For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

²⁴Ka thumna lah an ka nek main a hongtunga, ka maunate tui banga leihbuakin a om hi.

²⁵For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.

²⁵Ka kihtak thil lah ka tungah a hongtung ngala, ka laulau lah ka tungah a hongtung hi.Nuam ka sa keia, muan leng ka muang kei, khawlna leng ka neikei hi; himahleh buaina a hongpai hi.

²⁶I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.

²⁶Nuam ka sa keia, muan leng ka muang kei, khawlna leng ka neikei hi; himahleh buaina a hongpai hi.