Job 23

1 Then Job answered and said,

and to answer Job and to say

2 Even to-day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than 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! [that] I might come [even] to his seat!

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

4 I would order [my] cause 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 know the words [which] he would answer me, and 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 plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in 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 righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

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

8 Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there]; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

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

9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold [him]: he hideth himself on the right hand, 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 knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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

11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

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

12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food].

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

13 But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth.

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 performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things are] with him.

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

15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

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

16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me

17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.

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