< Job 23 >

1 Bvt Iob answered and sayd,
and to answer Job and to say
2 Though my talke be this day in bitternes, and my plague greater then my groning,
also [the] day rebellion complaint my hand my to honor: heavy upon sighing my
3 Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.
who? to give: if only! to know and to find him to come (in): come till place his
4 I would pleade 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 knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, and would vnderstand what he would say vnto 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? No, but he would put strength in 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 righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.
there upright to rebuke with him and to escape to/for perpetuity from to judge me
8 Behold, if I go to the East, he is not there: if to the West, yet I can not perceiue him:
look! front: forward to go: went and nothing he and back and not to understand to/for him
9 If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde 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 knoweth my way, and trieth mee, and I shall come forth like the gold.
for to know way: conduct with me me to test me like/as gold to come out: come
11 My foote hath followed his steps: his way haue I kept, and haue not declined.
in/on/with step his to grasp foot my way: conduct his to keep: obey and not to stretch
12 Neyther haue I departed from the commandement of his lippes, and I haue esteemed the words of his mouth more then mine appointed foode.
commandment lips his and not to remove from statute: portion my to treasure word lip his
13 Yet he is in one minde, and who can turne him? yea, he doeth what his minde desireth.
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 performe that, which is decreed of 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 troubled at his presence, and in considering it, I am afraid of him.
upon so from face his to dismay to understand and to dread from him
16 For God hath softened mine heart, and the Almightie hath troubled me.
and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me
17 For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.
for not to destroy from face: before darkness and from face my to cover darkness

< Job 23 >