Job 23

1 Then Job answered and said:

and to answer Job and to say

2 Even to-day is my complaint bitter; my hand is become heavy because of 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 even 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 my 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 which 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 contend with me in 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 the upright might reason with Him; so should I be delivered for ever from my Judge.

there upright to rebuke with him and to escape to/for perpetuity from to judge me

8 Behold, I go forward, but He is not there, and backward, but I cannot 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, when He doth work, but I cannot behold Him, He turneth Himself to the right hand, but I cannot see Him.

left in/on/with to make: do he and not to see to turn aside right and not to see: see

10 For He knoweth the way that I take; when He hath tried 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 fast to His steps, His way have I kept, and turned not aside.

in/on/with step his to grasp foot my way: conduct his to keep: obey and not to stretch

12 I have not gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured up the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.

commandment lips his and not to remove from statute: portion my to treasure word lip his

13 But He is at one with Himself, and who can turn Him? And what His soul desireth, even that He doeth.

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 that which 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 affrighted at His presence; when I consider, I am afraid of Him.

upon so from face his to dismay to understand and to dread from him

16 Yea, God hath made my heart faint, and the Almighty hath affrighted me;

and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me

17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did He cover the thick darkness from my face.

for not to destroy from face: before darkness and from face my to cover darkness