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 rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

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

Oh that I knew where I might find him. That I might come even to his seat.

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

I would set my cause in order 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 know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.

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 the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

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

There the upright might reason with him, so I should 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; if west, I can't find him;

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

He works to the north, but I can't see him. He turns south, but I can't catch a glimpse of him.

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

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.

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

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.

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

I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

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 stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

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

For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

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

Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

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

For God has made my heart faint. Shaddai has terrified me.

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

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.