< Job 9 >
1 Then Job answered and said,
and to answer Job and to say
2 I know [it to be] so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
truly to know for so and what? to justify human with God
3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
if to delight in to/for to contend with him not to answer him one from thousand
4 [He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened [himself] against him, and hath prospered?
wise heart and strong strength who? to harden to(wards) him and to complete
5 Who removeth the mountains, and they know not: who overturneth them in his anger.
[the] to proceed mountain: mount and not to know which to overturn them in/on/with face: anger his
6 Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and its pillars tremble.
[the] to tremble land: country/planet from place her and pillar her to shudder [emph?]
7 Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
[the] to say to/for sun and not to rise and about/through/for star to seal
8 Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
to stretch heaven to/for alone him and to tread upon high place sea
9 Who maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
to make Bear Orion and Pleiades and chamber south
10 Who doeth great things past finding out; yes, and wonders without number.
to make: do great: large till nothing search and to wonder till nothing number
11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him] not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
look! to pass upon me and not to see: see and to pass and not to understand to/for him
12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say to him, What doest thou?
look! to seize who? to return: return him who? to say to(wards) him what? to make: do
13 [If] God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
god not to return: turn back face: anger his (underneath: under him *Q(k)*) to bow to help Rahab monster
14 How much less shall I answer him, [and] choose out my words [to reason] with him?
also for I to answer him to choose word my with him
15 Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my judge.
which if to justify not to answer to/for to judge me be gracious
16 If I had called, and he had answered me; [yet] I would not believe that he had hearkened to my voice.
if to call: call to and to answer me not be faithful for to listen voice my
17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
which in/on/with storm to bruise me and to multiply wound my for nothing
18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
not to give: allow me to return: return spirit: breath my for to satisfy me bitterness
19 If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]?
if to/for strength strong behold and if to/for justice who? to appoint me
20 If I justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, that also will prove me perverse.
if to justify lip my be wicked me complete I and to twist me
21 [Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
complete I not to know soul my to reject life my
22 This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
one he/she/it upon so to say complete and wicked he/she/it to end: destroy
23 If the scourge shall slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
if whip to die suddenly to/for despair innocent to mock
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of its judges; if not, where, [and] who [is] he?
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 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
and day my to lighten from to run: run to flee not to see: see welfare
26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.
to pass with fleet papyrus like/as eagle to dart upon food
27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:
if to say I to forget complaint my to leave: release face my and be cheerful
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
to fear all injury my to know for not to clear me
29 [If] I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?
I be wicked to/for what? this vanity be weary/toil
30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
if to wash: wash (in/on/with water *Q(K)*) snow and be clean in/on/with lye palm my
31 Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
then in/on/with pit: grave to dip me and to abhor me garment my
32 For [he is] not a man, as I [am], [that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment.
for not man like me to answer him to come (in): come together in/on/with justice: judgement
33 Neither is there any judge between us, [that] might lay his hand upon us both.
not there between us to rebuke to set: put hand his upon two our
34 Let him take away his rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
to turn aside: remove from upon me tribe: staff his and terror his not to terrify me
35 [Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so with me.
to speak: speak and not to fear him for not so I with me me