Job 23

1 Then Job answered and said,

and to answer Job and to say

2 Even today my complaint is rebellious. My stroke is heavier than my groaning.

also [the] day rebellion complaint my hand my to honor: heavy upon sighing my

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

who? to give: if only! to know and to find him to come (in): come till place his

4 I would set my case in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

to arrange to/for face: before his justice and lip my to fill argument

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

to know speech to answer me and to understand what? to say to/for me

6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would give heed to me.

in/on/with abundance strength to contend with me me not surely he/she/it to set: consider in/on/with me

7 There the upright might reason with him. So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

there upright to rebuke with him and to escape to/for perpetuity from to judge me

8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive him,

look! front: forward to go: went and nothing he and back and not to understand to/for him

9 on the left hand, when he works, but I cannot behold him. He hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

left in/on/with to make: do he and not to see to turn aside right and not to see: see

10 But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

for to know way: conduct with me me to test me like/as gold to come out: come

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

in/on/with step his to grasp foot my way: conduct his to keep: obey and not to stretch

12 I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips, I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

commandment lips his and not to remove from statute: portion my to treasure word lip his

13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desires, even that he does.

and he/she/it in/on/with one and who? to return: turn back him and soul: myself his to desire and to make: do

14 For he performs that which is appointed for me. And many such things are with him.

for to complete statute: portion my and like/as them many with him

15 Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

upon so from face his to dismay to understand and to dread from him

16 For God has made my heart faint, and the Almighty has terrified me,

and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me

17 because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

for not to destroy from face: before darkness and from face my to cover darkness