Job 23

1 and to answer Job and to say

Then Job answered:

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

“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

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

If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

4 to arrange to/for face: before his justice and lip my to fill argument

I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.

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

I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.

6 in/on/with abundance strength to contend with me me not surely he/she/it to set: consider in/on/with me

Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.

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

Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

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

If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.

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

When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him.

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

Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

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

My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.

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

I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

13 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

But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.

14 for to complete statute: portion my and like/as them many with him

For He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.

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

Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.

16 and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me

God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

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

Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.