< Job 23 >

1 Then 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 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 Will 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 dispute 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, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that 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 But 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 his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
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 esteemed 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 in one mind, 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 performeth the thing that 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: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
upon so from face his to dismay to understand and to dread from him
16 For God maketh 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 covered the darkness from my face.
for not to destroy from face: before darkness and from face my to cover darkness

< Job 23 >