Job 23

1 And Job answereth and saith: —

And he answered Job and he said.

2 Also — to-day [is] my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.

Also this day [the] rebellion of complaint my hand my it is heavy on groaning my.

3 O that I had known — and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

Who? will he give I knew and I will find him I will come to place his.

4 I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill [with] arguments.

Let me set in order before him a case and mouth my let me fill arguments.

5 I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.

I want to know [the] words [which] he will answer me and I want to understand what? will he say to me.

6 In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth [it] in me.

¿ With greatness of power will he conduct a case with me not surely he he will put on me.

7 There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.

There an upright [person] [will be] reasoning with him and I will deliver to perpetuity from judge my.

8 Lo, forward I go — and He is not, And backward — and I perceive him not.

Here! forward I go and there not [is] he and backwards and not I perceive him.

9 [To] the left in His working — and I see not, He is covered [on] the right, and I behold not.

[the] left [side] When acts he and not I see [him] he turns [the] right [side] and not I see [him].

10 For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me — as gold I go forth.

That he knows [the] way with me he has tested me like gold I will come forth.

11 On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,

On step his it has taken hold foot my way his I have kept and not I have turned aside.

12 The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

[the] commandment of Lips his and not I have ceased more than portion my I have treasured up [the] words of mouth his.

13 And He [is] in one [mind], And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired — and He doth [it].

And he [is] one and who? will he turn back him and [that which] self his it has desired and he has done.

14 For He doth complete my portion, And many such things [are] with Him.

For he performs decree my and like them many [are] with him.

15 Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him.

There-fore of him I am terrified I consider and I may be in dread from him.

16 And God hath made my heart soft, And the Mighty hath troubled me.

And God he has made faint heart my and [the] Almighty he has terrified me.

17 For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

For not I have been destroyed from before darkness and from before me it covers gloom.