Job 23
1 And Job answered and said,
| ויען איוב ויאמר׃ |
2 Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
| גם היום מרי שחי ידי כבדה על אנחתי׃ |
3 Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat!
| מי יתן ידעתי ואמצאהו אבוא עד תכונתו׃ |
4 I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;
| אערכה לפניו משפט ופי אמלא תוכחות׃ |
5 I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
| אדעה מלים יענני ואבינה מה יאמר לי׃ |
6 Would he plead against me with [his] great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.
| הברב כח יריב עמדי לא אך הוא ישם בי׃ |
7 There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge.
| שם ישר נוכח עמו ואפלטה לנצח משפטי׃ |
8 Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;
| הן קדם אהלך ואיננו ואחור ולא אבין לו׃ |
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.
| שמאול בעשתו ולא אחז יעטף ימין ולא אראה׃ |
10 But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.
| כי ידע דרך עמדי בחנני כזהב אצא׃ |
11 My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.
| באשרו אחזה רגלי דרכו שמרתי ולא אט׃ |
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.
| מצות שפתיו ולא אמיש מחקי צפנתי אמרי פיו׃ |
13 But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do.
| והוא באחד ומי ישיבנו ונפשו אותה ויעש׃ |
14 For he will perform [what] is appointed for me; and many such things are with him.
| כי ישלים חקי וכהנה רבות עמו׃ |
15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him.
| על כן מפניו אבהל אתבונן ואפחד ממנו׃ |
16 For God hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;
| ואל הרך לבי ושדי הבהילני׃ |
17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.
| כי לא נצמתי מפני חשך ומפני כסה אפל׃ |
