< Job 23 >

1 Then Job answered and said,
and to answer Job and to say
2 Yes, I know that pleading is out of my reach; and his hand has been made heavy upon my groaning.
also [the] day rebellion complaint my hand my to honor: heavy upon sighing my
3 Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end [of the matter]?
who? to give: if only! to know and to find him to come (in): come till place his
4 And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments.
to arrange to/for face: before his justice and lip my to fill argument
5 And I would know the remedies which he would speak to me, and I would perceive what he would tell me.
to know speech to answer me and to understand what? to say to/for me
6 Though he should come on me in [his] great strength, then he would not threaten me;
in/on/with abundance strength to contend with me me not surely he/she/it to set: consider in/on/with me
7 for truth and reproof are from him; and he would bring forth my judgement to an end.
there upright to rebuke with him and to escape to/for perpetuity from to judge me
8 For if I shall go first, and exist no longer, still what do I know [concerning] the latter end?
look! front: forward to go: went and nothing he and back and not to understand to/for him
9 When he wrought on the left hand, then I observed [it] not: his right hand shall encompass me but I shall not see [it].
left in/on/with to make: do he and not to see to turn aside right and not to see: see
10 For he knows already my way; and he has tried me as gold.
for to know way: conduct with me me to test me like/as gold to come out: come
11 And I will go forth according to his commandments, for I have kept his ways; and I shall not turn aside from his commandments,
in/on/with step his to grasp foot my way: conduct his to keep: obey and not to stretch
12 neither shall I transgress; but I have hid his words in my bosom.
commandment lips his and not to remove from statute: portion my to treasure word lip his
13 And if too he has thus judged, who is he that has contradicted, for he has both willed [a thing] and done it.
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
for to complete statute: portion my and like/as them many with him
15 Therefore am I troubled at him; and when I was reproved, I thought of him. Therefore let me take good heed before him: I will consider, and be afraid of him.
upon so from face his to dismay to understand and to dread from him
16 But the Lord has softened my heart, and the Almighty has troubled me.
and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me
17 For I knew not that darkness would come upon me, and thick darkness has covered [me] before my face.
for not to destroy from face: before darkness and from face my to cover darkness

< Job 23 >