Job 9
1 Then Job replied,
and to answer Job and to say
2 “Yes, I certainly know that [much of] what you said is true. But (how can anyone say to God, ‘I (am innocent/have not done what is wrong) and prove it?’/no one can say to God ‘I (am innocent/have not done what is wrong) and prove it.’) [RHQ]
truly to know for so and what? to justify human with God
3 If someone wanted to argue with God [about that], God could ask him 1,000 questions, and that person would not be able to answer any of them!
if to delight in to/for to contend with him not to answer him one from thousand
4 God is very wise [IDM] and very powerful; no one who has tried to challenge God has been able to win.
wise heart and strong strength who? to harden to(wards) him and to complete
5 He even moves mountains, without them (OR, anyone) knowing about it. When he is angry, he turns them upside down.
[the] to proceed mountain: mount and not to know which to overturn them in/on/with face: anger his
6 He sends earthquakes that shake the ground; he causes the pillars that support the earth to tremble.
[the] to tremble land: country/planet from place her and pillar her to shudder [emph?]
7 [Some days] he speaks to the sun, and it does not rise, and [some nights] he prevents the stars from shining.
[the] to say to/for sun and not to rise and about/through/for star to seal
8 He alone (stretched out/put in place) the sky; he alone puts his feet on the waves (OR, on the huge sea monster).
to stretch heaven to/for alone him and to tread upon high place sea
9 He put in their places [the clusters/groups of stars that are called] The Dipper/Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars in the southern sky.
to make Bear Orion and Pleiades and chamber south
10 Only he does great things that we cannot understand; he does more marvelous things than we are able to count.
to make: do great: large till nothing search and to wonder till nothing number
11 He passes by where I am, but I do not see him; he moves further on, but I do not see him go.
look! to pass upon me and not to see: see and to pass and not to understand to/for him
12 If he [wants to] snatch something away, no one [RHQ] can hinder him; no one dares to ask him, ‘Why are you doing that?’ [RHQ]
look! to seize who? to return: return him who? to say to(wards) him what? to make: do
13 God will not very easily stop being angry; he defeated [MTY] those who [tried to] help Rahab, [the great sea monster].
god not to return: turn back face: anger his (underneath: under him *Q(k)*) to bow to help Rahab monster
14 “So, [if God took me to court], what could I say [MTY] to answer him?
also for I to answer him to choose word my with him
15 Even though I (would be innocent/would not have done what is wrong), I would not be able to answer him. All I could do would be to request God, my judge/accuser, to act mercifully toward me.
which if to justify not to answer to/for to judge me be gracious
16 If I summoned him to [come to the courtroom] and he said that he would come, I would not believe that he would pay attention to what I would say.
if to call: call to and to answer me not be faithful for to listen voice my
17 He sends storms to batter me, and he bruises me many times (without any reason to do that/even though I am innocent).
which in/on/with storm to bruise me and to multiply wound my for nothing
18 [It is as though] he will not let me get/catch my breath, because he causes me to suffer all the time.
not to give: allow me to return: return spirit: breath my for to satisfy me bitterness
19 If I would try to (wrestle with/fight against) him, [there is no way that I could defeat him, ] [because] he is stronger than I am. If I would request him to appear in court, there is no one who could [RHQ] force him to go there.
if to/for strength strong behold and if to/for justice who? to appoint me
20 Even though I was innocent, what I would say would cause him to say that I must be punished [MTY]; even though I had not done anything wrong, he would prove that I am guilty.
if to justify lip my be wicked me complete I and to twist me
21 “I have not done what is wrong, but that is not important. I despise continuing to remain alive.
complete I not to know soul my to reject life my
22 But it doesn’t matter, because God will get rid of [all of us, ] both those who are innocent and those who are wicked.
one he/she/it upon so to say complete and wicked he/she/it to end: destroy
23 When people experience disaster and it causes them to suddenly die, God laughs at it, even if they are innocent.
if whip to die suddenly to/for despair innocent to mock
24 God has allowed wicked people to control [what happens in] the world. [It is as though] he has caused judges to be blindfolded, [with the result that they cannot judge fairly]. If it is not God who has put wicked people in control, who has done it?
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
25 “My days go by very quickly, like a fast runner; [it is as though] they run away, and nothing good happens to me on those days.
and day my to lighten from to run: run to flee not to see: see welfare
26 My life goes by very rapidly, like a boat made from reeds sailing swiftly, or like an eagle that swoops down to seize a small animal.
to pass with fleet papyrus like/as eagle to dart upon food
27 If I smile and say [to God], ‘I will forget what I am complaining about; I will stop looking sad and try to be cheerful/happy,’
if to say I to forget complaint my to leave: release face my and be cheerful
28 then I become afraid because of all that I am suffering, because I know that God does not consider that I am innocent.
to fear all injury my to know for not to clear me
29 He will (condemn me/declare that I should be punished), so why should I keep trying in vain [to defend myself]?
I be wicked to/for what? this vanity be weary/toil
30 If I washed myself with snow or cleansed my hands with lye/soap [to get rid of my guilt],
if to wash: wash (in/on/with water *Q(K)*) snow and be clean in/on/with lye palm my
31 he would still throw me into a filthy pit; as a result [it would be as though] even my clothes would detest me.
then in/on/with pit: grave to dip me and to abhor me garment my
32 “God is not a human, as I am, so there is no way that I could answer him [to prove that I am innocent] if we went together to have a trial [in a courtroom].
for not man like me to answer him to come (in): come together in/on/with justice: judgement
33 There is no one to (mediate/hear us and decide who is right), no one who has authority over both of us [IDM].
not there between us to rebuke to set: put hand his upon two our
34 I wish/desire that he would stop punishing [MTY] me, and that he would not continue to terrify me.
to turn aside: remove from upon me tribe: staff his and terror his not to terrify me
35 If he did that, I would declare [that I am innocent] without being afraid of him, because I know that I really have not [done what is wrong like God thinks that I have].”
to speak: speak and not to fear him for not so I with me me
