< Job 23 >
1 And Job answered and said,
and to answer Job and to say
2 Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
also [the] day rebellion complaint my hand my to honor: heavy upon sighing my
3 Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat!
who? to give: if only! to know and to find him to come (in): come till place his
4 I would order the cause 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 he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
to know speech to answer me and to understand what? to say to/for me
6 Would he plead against me with [his] great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto 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 would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge.
there upright to rebuke with him and to escape to/for perpetuity from to judge me
8 Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not 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, where he doth work, but I behold [him] not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see [him] not.
left in/on/with to make: do he and not to see to turn aside right and not to see: see
10 But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth 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 hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.
in/on/with step his to grasp foot my way: conduct his to keep: obey and not to stretch
12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.
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 desireth, that will he do.
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 will perform [what] 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 am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him.
upon so from face his to dismay to understand and to dread from him
16 For God hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;
and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me
17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.
for not to destroy from face: before darkness and from face my to cover darkness