Job 23

1 And Job answereth and saith: —

and to answer Job and to say

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6 In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth [it] 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 upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.

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

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

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

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

left in/on/with to make: do he and not to see to turn aside right and not to see: see

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

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

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

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

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

commandment lips his and not to remove from statute: portion my to treasure word lip 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/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 doth complete my portion, And many such things [are] with Him.

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

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

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

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

and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me

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

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