< Job 9 >

1 and to answer Job and to say
And Job answered and said,
2 truly to know for so and what? to justify human with God
Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just with God?
3 if to delight in to/for to contend with him not to answer him one from thousand
If he shall choose to strive with him, he cannot answer him one thing of a thousand.
4 wise heart and strong strength who? to harden to(wards) him and to complete
He is wise in heart and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and had peace?
5 [the] to proceed mountain: mount and not to know which to overturn them in/on/with face: anger his
Who removeth mountains, and they know it not, when he overturneth them in his anger;
6 [the] to tremble land: country/planet from place her and pillar her to shudder [emph?]
Who shaketh the earth out of its place, and the pillars thereof tremble;
7 [the] to say to/for sun and not to rise and about/through/for star to seal
Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and he sealeth up the stars;
8 to stretch heaven to/for alone him and to tread upon high place sea
Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the high waves of the sea;
9 to make Bear Orion and Pleiades and chamber south
Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;
10 to make: do great: large till nothing search and to wonder till nothing number
Who doeth great things past finding out, and wonders without number.
11 look! to pass upon me and not to see: see and to pass and not to understand to/for him
Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him] not; and he passeth along, and I perceive him not.
12 look! to seize who? to return: return him who? to say to(wards) him what? to make: do
Behold, he taketh away: who will hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?
13 god not to return: turn back face: anger his (underneath: under him *Q(k)*) to bow to help Rahab monster
God withdraweth not his anger; the proud helpers stoop under him:
14 also for I to answer him to choose word my with him
How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words [to strive] with him?
15 which if to justify not to answer to/for to judge me be gracious
Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.
16 if to call: call to and to answer me not be faithful for to listen voice my
If I had called, and he had answered me, I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice, —
17 which in/on/with storm to bruise me and to multiply wound my for nothing
He, who crusheth me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
18 not to give: allow me to return: return spirit: breath my for to satisfy me bitterness
He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses.
19 if to/for strength strong behold and if to/for justice who? to appoint me
Be it a question of strength, lo, [he is] strong; and be it of judgment, who will set me a time?
20 if to justify lip my be wicked me complete I and to twist me
If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.
21 complete I not to know soul my to reject life my
Were I perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
22 one he/she/it upon so to say complete and wicked he/she/it to end: destroy
It is all one; therefore I said, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
23 if whip to die suddenly to/for despair innocent to mock
If the scourge kill suddenly, he mocketh at the trial of the innocent.
24 land: country/planet to give: give in/on/with hand: power wicked face to judge her to cover if not then who? he/she/it
The earth is given over into the hand of the wicked [man]; he covereth the faces of its judges. If not, who then is it?
25 and day my to lighten from to run: run to flee not to see: see welfare
And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.
26 to pass with fleet papyrus like/as eagle to dart upon food
They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.
27 if to say I to forget complaint my to leave: release face my and be cheerful
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my [sad] countenance, and brighten up,
28 to fear all injury my to know for not to clear me
I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
29 I be wicked to/for what? this vanity be weary/toil
Be it that I am wicked, why then do I labour in vain?
30 if to wash: wash (in/on/with water *Q(K)*) snow and be clean in/on/with lye palm my
If I washed myself with snow-water, and cleansed my hands in purity,
31 then in/on/with pit: grave to dip me and to abhor me garment my
Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me.
32 for not man like me to answer him to come (in): come together in/on/with justice: judgement
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him; that we should come together in judgment.
33 not there between us to rebuke to set: put hand his upon two our
There is not an umpire between us, who should lay his hand upon us both.
34 to turn aside: remove from upon me tribe: staff his and terror his not to terrify me
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid,
35 to speak: speak and not to fear him for not so I with me me
[Then] I will speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

< Job 9 >