Job 23

1 And Job answers and says:

and to answer Job and to say

2 “Also—today my complaint [is] bitter, My hand has been heavy because of my sighing.

also [the] day rebellion complaint my hand my to honor: heavy upon sighing my

3 O that I had known—and I find Him, I come to His seat,

who? to give: if only! to know and to find him to come (in): come till place his

4 I arrange 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 know the words He answers me, And understand what He says to me.

to know speech to answer me and to understand what? to say to/for me

6 Does He strive with me in the abundance of power? No! Surely He puts [it] 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 upright reason with Him, And I escape from mine who is judging—forever.

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

8 Behold, I go forward—and He is not, And backward—and I do not perceive Him.

look! front: forward to go: went and nothing he and back and not to understand to/for him

9 [To] the left in His working—and I do not see, He is covered [on] the right, and I do not behold.

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

10 For He has known the way with me, He has tried me—I go forth as gold.

for to know way: conduct with me me to test me like/as gold to come out: come

11 My foot has laid hold on His step, I have kept His way, and do not turn aside,

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

12 The command of His lips, and I do not depart. I have laid up above my allotted portion The sayings of His mouth.

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

13 And He [is] in one [mind], And who turns Him back? And His soul has desired—and He does [it].

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 completes my portion, 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, I consider, and am afraid of Him.

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

16 And God has made my heart soft, And the Mighty has troubled me.

and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me

17 For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.”

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