Job 23

1 and to answer Job and to say

And Job answereth and saith: —

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

Also — to-day [is] my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.

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

O that I had known — and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

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

I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill [with] arguments.

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

I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.

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

In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth [it] in me.

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

There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.

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

Lo, forward I go — and He is not, And backward — and I perceive him not.

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

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

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

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

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

On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,

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

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

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

And He [is] in one [mind], And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired — and He doth [it].

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

For He doth complete my portion, And many such things [are] with Him.

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

Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him.

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

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

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

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