Job 9
1 and to answer Job and to say
Then Job answered,
2 truly to know for so and what? to justify human with God
“Truly I know that 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 is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
4 wise heart and strong strength who? to harden to(wards) him and to complete
God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
5 [the] to proceed mountain: mount and not to know which to overturn them in/on/with face: anger his
He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
6 [the] to tremble land: country/planet from place her and pillar her to shudder [emph?]
He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
7 [the] to say to/for sun and not to rise and about/through/for star to seal
He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
8 to stretch heaven to/for alone him and to tread upon high place sea
He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
9 to make Bear Orion and Pleiades and chamber south
He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
10 to make: do great: large till nothing search and to wonder till nothing number
He does great things past finding out; yes, marvellous things without number.
11 look! to pass upon me and not to see: see and to pass and not to understand to/for him
Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
12 look! to seize who? to return: return him who? to say to(wards) him what? to make: do
Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
13 god not to return: turn back face: anger his (underneath: under him *Q(k)*) to bow to help Rahab monster
“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
14 also for I to answer him to choose word my with him
How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
15 which if to justify not to answer to/for to judge me be gracious
Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. 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, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
17 which in/on/with storm to bruise me and to multiply wound my for nothing
For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
18 not to give: allow me to return: return spirit: breath my for to satisfy me bitterness
He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
19 if to/for strength strong behold and if to/for justice who? to appoint me
If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
20 if to justify lip my be wicked me complete I and to twist me
Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
21 complete I not to know soul my to reject life my
I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
22 one he/she/it upon so to say complete and wicked he/she/it to end: destroy
“It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
23 if whip to die suddenly to/for despair innocent to mock
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock 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 into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
25 and day my to lighten from to run: run to flee not to see: see welfare
“Now 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 have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on 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 put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
28 to fear all injury my to know for not to clear me
I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
29 I be wicked to/for what? this vanity be weary/toil
I will be condemned. 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 wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
31 then in/on/with pit: grave to dip me and to abhor me garment my
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will 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 judgement.
33 not there between us to rebuke to set: put hand his upon two our
There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on 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. Let his terror not make me afraid;
35 to speak: speak and not to fear him for not so I with me me
then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.
