Job 23
1 Then answered Job, and said,
| ויען איוב ויאמר׃ |
2 Even now is my complaint bitter: my suffering is heavier than my groans.
| גם היום מרי שחי ידי כבדה על אנחתי׃ |
3 Oh who would grant that I knew where I might find him! that I might attain to his Judgment throne!
| מי יתן ידעתי ואמצאהו אבוא עד תכונתו׃ |
4 I would put in order before him my cause, and my mouth would I fill with arguments.
| אערכה לפניו משפט ופי אמלא תוכחות׃ |
5 I should know the words which he might answer me, and understand what he might say unto me.
| אדעה מלים יענני ואבינה מה יאמר לי׃ |
6 Would he with his power contend against me? he would truly not lay such doings to my charge.
| הברב כח יריב עמדי לא אך הוא ישם בי׃ |
7 There would an upright one argue with him; and I should be allowed to escape for ever by my judge.
| שם ישר נוכח עמו ואפלטה לנצח משפטי׃ |
8 But, lo, I go eastward—and he is not there; and to the west— and I cannot perceive him;
| הן קדם אהלך ואיננו ואחור ולא אבין לו׃ |
9 When he doth great things at the north, I behold him not; he hideth himself in the south—and I see him not.
| שמאול בעשתו ולא אחז יעטף ימין ולא אראה׃ |
10 But he knoweth the way that I take: were he to probe me, I should come forth as gold.
| כי ידע דרך עמדי בחנני כזהב אצא׃ |
11 On his steps my foot hath held fast: his way have I kept, and swerved not.
| באשרו אחזה רגלי דרכו שמרתי ולא אט׃ |
12 From the commandment of his lips have I also not moved away: as a fixed statute for me have I treasured up the sayings of his mouth.
| מצות שפתיו ולא אמיש מחקי צפנתי אמרי פיו׃ |
13 But he is unchangeably one, and who can turn him? And what his will desireth, even that he doth.
| והוא באחד ומי ישיבנו ונפשו אותה ויעש׃ |
14 For he will bring to completion what hath been destined for me: and like these hath he many other things with him.
| כי ישלים חקי וכהנה רבות עמו׃ |
15 Therefore am I terrified at his presence: I will reflect, and be in dread of him.
| על כן מפניו אבהל אתבונן ואפחד ממנו׃ |
16 Still God hath made timid my heart, and the Almighty hath terrified me;
| ואל הרך לבי ושדי הבהילני׃ |
17 Because I was not destroyed before this darkness, and because he hath not hidden from my face [this] gloom.
| כי לא נצמתי מפני חשך ומפני כסה אפל׃ |
