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

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

²Job answered:

²Huan Jobin a dawnga hichiin a chi hi:

³“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

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

⁴Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on 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 for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black 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.

⁶As for that night, let thick darkness seize on 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 voice come therein.

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

⁸Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

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

⁹Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

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

¹⁰because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

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

¹¹“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

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

¹²Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

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 I would have 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 counselors of the earth, who built up waste 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 who never saw light.

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

¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

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

¹⁸There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.

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

¹⁹The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

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

²⁰“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

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

²¹Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; 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 exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

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

²³Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

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

²⁴For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

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

²⁵For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes 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 am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes.”

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