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ויען איוב ויאמר 1
And he answered Job and he said.
גם-היום מרי שחי ידי כבדה על-אנחתי 2
Also this day [the] rebellion of complaint my hand my it is heavy on groaning my.
מי-יתן ידעתי ואמצאהו אבוא עד-תכונתו 3
Who? will he give I knew and I will find him I will come to place his.
אערכה לפניו משפט ופי אמלא תוכחות 4
Let me set in order before him a case and mouth my let me fill arguments.
אדעה מלים יענני ואבינה מה-יאמר לי 5
I want to know [the] words [which] he will answer me and I want to understand what? will he say to me.
הברב-כח יריב עמדי לא אך-הוא ישם בי 6
¿ With greatness of power will he conduct a case with me not surely he he will put on me.
שם--ישר נוכח עמו ואפלטה לנצח משפטי 7
There an upright [person] [will be] reasoning with him and I will deliver to perpetuity from judge my.
הן קדם אהלך ואיננו ואחור ולא-אבין לו 8
Here! forward I go and there not [is] he and backwards and not I perceive him.
שמאול בעשתו ולא-אחז יעטף ימין ולא אראה 9
[the] left [side] When acts he and not I see [him] he turns [the] right [side] and not I see [him].
כי-ידע דרך עמדי בחנני כזהב אצא 10
That he knows [the] way with me he has tested me like gold I will come forth.
באשרו אחזה רגלי דרכו שמרתי ולא-אט 11
On step his it has taken hold foot my way his I have kept and not I have turned aside.
מצות שפתיו ולא אמיש מחקי צפנתי אמרי-פיו 12
[the] commandment of Lips his and not I have ceased more than portion my I have treasured up [the] words of mouth his.
והוא באחד ומי ישיבנו ונפשו אותה ויעש 13
And he [is] one and who? will he turn back him and [that which] self his it has desired and he has done.
כי ישלים חקי וכהנה רבות עמו 14
For he performs decree my and like them many [are] with him.
על-כן מפניו אבהל אתבונן ואפחד ממנו 15
There-fore of him I am terrified I consider and I may be in dread from him.
ואל הרך לבי ושדי הבהילני 16
And God he has made faint heart my and [the] Almighty he has terrified me.
כי-לא נצמתי מפני-חשך ומפני כסה-אפל 17
For not I have been destroyed from before darkness and from before me it covers gloom.

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