¹Ka lungsim hihgawpin a oma, ka nite a bei, kei dingin han mansain a om hi.

¹My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

²Ka kiangah musitmite a om taktak ua, a hehna uah ka mit a omgige hi.

²Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

³Tuin thuchiam honpia in, nangmahmah toh kei adingin mohkhu honghi in; kei toh khutte beng ding kua a oma?

³Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

⁴Theihsiamna akipan a lungtang uh na sel ngala: huai jiakin amau na hihlian kei ding hi.

⁴For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

⁵Kuapeuh matdinga a lawmte heka, a neihlehlam tan tummi, a tate nangawn nit a juausuak ding hi.

⁵He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

⁶Mite houlimna dingin a honbawl laia; huan tangpi kih ka honghita hi.

⁶He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

⁷Lungkhamna jiakin ka mit leng a miala, huan ka hiangte tengteng limliap bang ahi.

⁷Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

⁸Mi dikten hiaiah lamdang a sa ding ua, huan mihoih pathianlimsakloute dou dingin a kitokthou ding.

⁸Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

⁹Himahleh mi diktat a lampi ah a pang zouzou dia, huan kuapeuh khut siangneite a hat semsem ding uhi.

⁹The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

¹⁰Himahleh hongkik un, na vek un, huan tuin hong un: huchiin na lak uah mi pil ka mu kei ding.

¹⁰But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

¹¹Ka nite a beita, ka thiltupte a se gawpta hi, ka lungtang ngaihtuahte nasanin.

¹¹My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

¹²Jan sunin a kheng ua: khovakin khomial a naih, a chi uh.

¹²They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

¹³Seol ka in bangin en leng; khomial ah ka tutnanem phahta leng;

¹³If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

¹⁴Siatna kiangah, Ka pa na hi, chi leng; tangtel kiangah, ka nu leh ka sanggamnu na hi, chi leng;

¹⁴I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

¹⁵Huchi hileh ka lametna koia om ahia? Huan lamet nei hileng kuan honmusak dia?Seol mundai ah te paisukin leivui ah ka kik khawm ding ua adiam?

¹⁵And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

¹⁶Seol mundai ah te paisukin leivui ah ka kik khawm ding ua adiam?

¹⁶They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.