Job 23

1 Then Job answered and said,

and to answer Job and to say

2 “Even today my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy because of my groaning.

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

3 Oh, that I knew where I might find him! Oh, that I might come to his place!

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

4 I would lay my case in order before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

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

5 I would learn the words with which he would answer me and would understand what he would say to me.

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

6 Would he argue against me in the greatness of his power? No, he would pay attention to me.

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

7 There the upright person might argue with him. In this way I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

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

8 See, I go eastward, but he is not there, and westward, but I cannot perceive him.

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

9 To the north, where he is at work, but I cannot see him, and to the south, where he hides himself so that I cannot see him.

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 the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come out like gold.

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

11 My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept to his way and turned not aside.

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

12 I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.

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

13 But he is one of a kind, who can turn him back? What he desires, 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 For he carries out his decree against me; there are many like them.

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

15 Therefore, I am terrified in his presence; when I think about him, I am afraid of him.

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

16 For God has made my heart weak; the Almighty has terrified me.

and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me

17 I have not been brought to an end by darkness, because of the thick darkness that covers the gloom of my face.

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