Job 23
1 Then Job replied again,
and to answer Job and to say
2 “Today I am again complaining bitterly/strongly [to God]; I [continue] groaning, but he [SYN] [continues to] (punish me/cause me to suffer).
also [the] day rebellion complaint my hand my to honor: heavy upon sighing my
3 I (wish that I knew/want to know) where I could meet/talk with him, so that I could go to the place where he lives.
who? to give: if only! to know and to find him to come (in): come till place his
4 If I could do that, I would tell him why [I know that] I am innocent; I would tell [MTY] to him all my (arguments/evidence [to show that I have not done what is evil]).
to arrange to/for face: before his justice and lip my to fill argument
5 Then I would find out what he would reply to me [DOU].
to know speech to answer me and to understand what? to say to/for me
6 Would he use his great power to argue with me? No, he would listen to me carefully.
in/on/with abundance strength to contend with me me not surely he/she/it to set: consider in/on/with me
7 I am (an honest/a righteous) man; so I would be able to discuss things with him [fairly], and then he would declare that I am innocent, [and that decision would endure] forever.
there upright to rebuke with him and to escape to/for perpetuity from to judge me
8 “But, I have gone to the east, and he is not there; I have gone to the west, but I have not found him there.
look! front: forward to go: went and nothing he and back and not to understand to/for him
9 I have gone north and I have gone south, but I have not seen him anywhere.
left in/on/with to make: do he and not to see to turn aside right and not to see: see
10 But he knows how I have conducted my life; and when he has finished testing me, [he] will [see that] I [am] as pure as [SIM] gold [whose impurities have all been burned out].
for to know way: conduct with me me to test me like/as gold to come out: come
11 I [SYN] have faithfully walked on the path that he showed me; I have not stopped [obeying] him.
in/on/with step his to grasp foot my way: conduct his to keep: obey and not to stretch
12 I have always obeyed what he [SYN] commanded; I have treasured the words that he has spoken.
commandment lips his and not to remove from statute: portion my to treasure word lip his
13 “He never changes. There is no one who can [RHQ] stop him [from doing what he desires]. Whatever he wants to do, he does.
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
14 And he will finish doing for me the things that he has planned for me; [and I am sure that] he has thought about doing many things for me.
for to complete statute: portion my and like/as them many with him
15 So I am terrified in his presence; when I think [about what he can do], I am very afraid [DOU].
upon so from face his to dismay to understand and to dread from him
16 Almighty God has caused me [SYN] to feel terrified [DOU].
and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me
17 [It is as though] there is only thick darkness in front of me, but it is God that I am afraid of, not the darkness.”
for not to destroy from face: before darkness and from face my to cover darkness
