Job 23

1 And he answered Job and he said.

Bvt Iob answered and sayd,

2 Also this day [the] rebellion of complaint my hand my it is heavy on groaning my.

Though my talke be this day in bitternes, and my plague greater then my groning,

3 Who? will he give I knew and I will find him I will come to place his.

Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.

4 Let me set in order before him a case and mouth my let me fill arguments.

I would pleade the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

5 I want to know [the] words [which] he will answer me and I want to understand what? will he say to me.

I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, and would vnderstand what he would say vnto me.

6 ¿ With greatness of power will he conduct a case with me not surely he he will put on me.

Would he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me.

7 There an upright [person] [will be] reasoning with him and I will deliver to perpetuity from judge my.

There the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.

8 Here! forward I go and there not [is] he and backwards and not I perceive him.

Behold, if I go to the East, he is not there: if to the West, yet I can not perceiue him:

9 [the] left [side] When acts he and not I see [him] he turns [the] right [side] and not I see [him].

If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him.

10 That he knows [the] way with me he has tested me like gold I will come forth.

But he knoweth my way, and trieth mee, and I shall come forth like the gold.

11 On step his it has taken hold foot my way his I have kept and not I have turned aside.

My foote hath followed his steps: his way haue I kept, and haue not declined.

12 [the] commandment of Lips his and not I have ceased more than portion my I have treasured up [the] words of mouth his.

Neyther haue I departed from the commandement of his lippes, and I haue esteemed the words of his mouth more then mine appointed foode.

13 And he [is] one and who? will he turn back him and [that which] self his it has desired and he has done.

Yet he is in one minde, and who can turne him? yea, he doeth what his minde desireth.

14 For he performs decree my and like them many [are] with him.

For he will performe that, which is decreed of me, and many such things are with him.

15 There-fore of him I am terrified I consider and I may be in dread from him.

Therefore I am troubled at his presence, and in considering it, I am afraid of him.

16 And God he has made faint heart my and [the] Almighty he has terrified me.

For God hath softened mine heart, and the Almightie hath troubled me.

17 For not I have been destroyed from before darkness and from before me it covers gloom.

For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.