< Job 23 >
and to answer Job and to say
2 “Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
also [the] day rebellion complaint my hand my to honor: heavy upon sighing my
3 If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
who? to give: if only! to know and to find him to come (in): come till place his
4 I would plead my case 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 learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.
to know speech to answer me and to understand what? to say to/for me
6 Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.
in/on/with abundance strength to contend with me me not surely he/she/it to set: consider in/on/with me
7 Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
there upright to rebuke with him and to escape to/for perpetuity from to judge me
8 If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.
look! front: forward to go: went and nothing he and back and not to understand to/for him
9 When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, 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 Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
for to know way: conduct with me me to test me like/as gold to come out: come
11 My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
in/on/with step his to grasp foot my way: conduct his to keep: obey and not to stretch
12 I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
commandment lips his and not to remove from statute: portion my to treasure word lip his
13 But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
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 carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.
for to complete statute: portion my and like/as them many with him
15 Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.
upon so from face his to dismay to understand and to dread from him
16 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.
and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me
17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
for not to destroy from face: before darkness and from face my to cover darkness