Job 23
1 Bvt Iob answered and sayd,
| ויען איוב ויאמר׃ |
2 Though my talke be this day in bitternes, and my plague greater then my groning,
| גם היום מרי שחי ידי כבדה על אנחתי׃ |
3 Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.
| מי יתן ידעתי ואמצאהו אבוא עד תכונתו׃ |
4 I would pleade the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
| אערכה לפניו משפט ופי אמלא תוכחות׃ |
5 I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, and would vnderstand what he would say vnto me.
| אדעה מלים יענני ואבינה מה יאמר לי׃ |
6 Would he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me.
| הברב כח יריב עמדי לא אך הוא ישם בי׃ |
7 There the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.
| שם ישר נוכח עמו ואפלטה לנצח משפטי׃ |
8 Behold, if I go to the East, he is not there: if to the West, yet I can not perceiue him:
| הן קדם אהלך ואיננו ואחור ולא אבין לו׃ |
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.
| שמאול בעשתו ולא אחז יעטף ימין ולא אראה׃ |
10 But he knoweth my way, and trieth mee, and I shall come forth like the gold.
| כי ידע דרך עמדי בחנני כזהב אצא׃ |
11 My foote hath followed his steps: his way haue I kept, and haue not declined.
| באשרו אחזה רגלי דרכו שמרתי ולא אט׃ |
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.
| מצות שפתיו ולא אמיש מחקי צפנתי אמרי פיו׃ |
13 Yet he is in one minde, and who can turne him? yea, he doeth what his minde desireth.
| והוא באחד ומי ישיבנו ונפשו אותה ויעש׃ |
14 For he will performe that, which is decreed of me, and many such things are with him.
| כי ישלים חקי וכהנה רבות עמו׃ |
15 Therefore I am troubled at his presence, and in considering it, I am afraid of him.
| על כן מפניו אבהל אתבונן ואפחד ממנו׃ |
16 For God hath softened mine heart, and the Almightie hath troubled me.
| ואל הרך לבי ושדי הבהילני׃ |
17 For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.
| כי לא נצמתי מפני חשך ומפני כסה אפל׃ |
