Job 23
1 And Job answereth and saith: —
Respondens autem Job, ait:
2 Also — to-day [is] my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.
Nunc quoque in amaritudine est sermo meus, et manus plagæ meæ aggravata est super gemitum meum.
3 O that I had known — and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,
Quis mihi tribuat ut cognoscam et inveniam illum, et veniam usque ad solium ejus?
4 I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill [with] arguments.
Ponam coram eo judicium, et os meum replebo increpationibus:
5 I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.
ut sciam verba quæ mihi respondeat, et intelligam quid loquatur mihi.
6 In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth [it] in me.
Nolo multa fortitudine contendat mecum, nec magnitudinis suæ mole me premat.
7 There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.
Proponat æquitatem contra me, et perveniat ad victoriam judicium meum.
8 Lo, forward I go — and He is not, And backward — and I perceive him not.
Si ad orientem iero, non apparet; si ad occidentem, non intelligam eum.
9 [To] the left in His working — and I see not, He is covered [on] the right, and I behold not.
Si ad sinistram, quid agam? non apprehendam eum; si me vertam ad dexteram, non videbo illum.
10 For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me — as gold I go forth.
Ipse vero scit viam meam, et probavit me quasi aurum quod per ignem transit.
11 On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,
Vestigia ejus secutus est pes meus: viam ejus custodivi, et non declinavi ex ea.
12 The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.
A mandatis labiorum ejus non recessi, et in sinu meo abscondi verba oris ejus.
13 And He [is] in one [mind], And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired — and He doth [it].
Ipse enim solus est, et nemo avertere potest cogitationem ejus: et anima ejus quodcumque voluit, hoc fecit.
14 For He doth complete my portion, And many such things [are] with Him.
Cum expleverit in me voluntatem suam, et alia multa similia præsto sunt ei.
15 Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him.
Et idcirco a facie ejus turbatus sum, et considerans eum, timore sollicitor.
16 And God hath made my heart soft, And the Mighty hath troubled me.
Deus mollivit cor meum, et Omnipotens conturbavit me.
17 For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.
Non enim perii propter imminentes tenebras, nec faciem meam operuit caligo.
