¹Ka mit toh thukhun ka nabawlkhinta; bangchin nungak ka en theita dia oi?

¹“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

²Ahihleh tunglam Pathian akipanin ka tantuan bang a hita dia, tungsang Thilbangkimhihthei akipanin ka goutan?

²For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

³Mi dikloute tungah tuahsiatna a tung kei mo, gitlouh nasemte tungah siatna?

³Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

⁴Aman ka lampite a mukhin keiin, ka kalsuante a sim vek kei ahia?

⁴Doesn’t he see my ways, and number all my steps?

⁵Thujuau toh na oma, hua ka khe khem dinga nakinoh ahih leh;

⁵“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

⁶(Bukna diktak ah honbuk dih ua, Pathianin ka thutakna thei hen! )

⁶(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

⁷Ka kalsuan lampi akipan anapial hiam, ka lungtang-in ka mitte anajui hiam, huan ka khutte ah nin himhim anabelh hiam:

⁷if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

⁸Huchi anahihleh, chi tuh ning, midangin ne hen; ahi, ka loua piang bulkalh khiak hi hen.

⁸then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

⁹Ka lungtang numei lama khema anaoma, huan ka innveng kongkhaka ka nangaktak leh:

⁹“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

¹⁰Huchi anahihtak leh ka jiin midan adingin an su henla, huan midangte amah tungah kun uhen.

¹⁰then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

¹¹Huchibang gitlouhna hoih hetlou lah ahi ngala; ahi, vaihawmmite gawt ding thulimlouhna ngei,

¹¹For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

¹²Siatna dinga kangbei leh, ka punna tengteng zungkalh ding mei hi ding lah ahi ngala.

¹²For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

¹³Ka tunga phunna a neihlai ua, ka sikhapa hiam ka sikhanu hiam makhua namusita, nakhualsak lou ka hih leh;

¹³“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

¹⁴Pathian a thohkhiak chiangin bang ka hihta dia? Thu a kan hun chiangin bangin ka dawngta dia?

¹⁴What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

¹⁵Kei sula honbawlpan amah a bawl kei mo? Huan khatin a honbawl tuak ahi kei mo?

¹⁵Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

¹⁶Migentheite a lunggulh uh ka napiak louha, ahihkeileh a vuaksuak dinga meithai mitte ka naomsak leh;

¹⁶“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

¹⁷Ahihkeileh kei kiain ka an ka naneka, huaia pabeiin ananek kei leh;

¹⁷or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

¹⁸(Ii, ka tuailai akipanin pa bang ka hi, ka kiangah ana khanglianta; huan ka nu sul akipan amah pipa ka nahita hi: )

¹⁸(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother’s womb);

¹⁹Kuapeuh taksap jiaka mangthang hiam, ahihkeileh tasam khuhna neilou hiam ka namuh leh;

¹⁹if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

²⁰A kawngten kei a honna vualjawl louha, ka belam mula lumsaka ana om kei leh;

²⁰if his heart hasn’t blessed me, if he hasn’t been warmed with my sheep’s fleece;

²¹Kongpia panpihna ka muh jiaka pabeite siatna dinga ka khut ka nalik leh;

²¹if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

²²Huchi anahihleh, ka liang ka liangjang akipan kia henla, a guh akipan ka ban kitan hen.

²²then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

²³Pathian akipan tuahsia lah keia dingin launa ahi ngala, A thupina lah ka tuak ngam ngal keia.

²³For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.

²⁴Dangkaeng lametpena ka nabawla, dangkaeng hoih kiangah, ka muanna na hi, ka nachihtaka;

²⁴“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

²⁵Ka hauhna thupi jiaka hiam, ka khutin tam a nalam jiaka ka nakipaha;

²⁵If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

²⁶A vak laia ni hiam, thupitaka pai pai kha hiam kana eta,

²⁶if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

²⁷Huchia ka lungtang aguka khema a oma, ka kamin ka khut anatawptak aleh:

²⁷and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

²⁸Hiai leng thulimlouhna vaihawmmite gawt ding ahi: tunga Pathian kianga najuauta hi ding ka hih jiakin.

²⁸this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

²⁹Kei honmudah siatnaa ka nakipaha, ahihkeileh hoihlou a tunga a tun chianga ka nakipah uat aleh;

²⁹“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

³⁰(Ka melma hamsiat ding leh a henna thum dingin ka kam ka nakhialsak kei);

³⁰(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

³¹Ka puaninaten, A ana kihihvah lou kua a oma, hon nachih kei ua leh;

³¹if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

³²(Kongzing ah mikhual ana giak ngei kei; khualzin adingin ka kongte ka nahongta)

³²(the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

³³Adam banga ka angsunga ka thulimlouhna na sela, ka tatlekna na khuh ka hiha,

³³if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

³⁴Ajiak, mi tampi launa thupitak ka neihjiak ahiha, sungte hon muhdaina launa jiak a huchia dai didea, popawt lou ka nahih leh-

³⁴because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

³⁵Aw, kei honja mi nei leng maw: (Ngaiin, hiaiah ka min gelh a om hi. Thil bangkim hihtheiin hondawng hen; ) huan ka galin a gelh khiat matna nei leng maw:

³⁵oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!

³⁶Chihtaktakin ka liang jangah ka po dinga; lallukhu bangin kei ah ka kan den ding hi.

³⁶Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.

³⁷A kiangah ka kal suan zah ka phuang dinga; lal bangin ka kiang naiah ka hoh ding hi.

³⁷I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.

³⁸Ka kam kei dema a kikoua, huaia lei lehsate a kah khawm uleh;

³⁸If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

³⁹Sum loua huai gahte ka nanektaka, ahihkeileh huaia a neite a hinna uh ka natansak aleh:Buh hilouin loulingneite, barli-buh hilouin loubualte pou jaw hen.

³⁹if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

⁴⁰Buh hilouin loulingneite, barli-buh hilouin loubualte pou jaw hen.

⁴⁰let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.