< Job 23 >

1 Respondens autem Iob, ait:
and to answer Job and to say
2 Nunc quoque in amaritudine est sermo meus, et manus plagæ meæ aggravata est super gemitum meum.
also [the] day rebellion complaint my hand my to honor: heavy upon sighing my
3 Quis mihi tribuat ut cognoscam et inveniam illum, et veniam usque ad solium eius?
who? to give: if only! to know and to find him to come (in): come till place his
4 Ponam coram eo iudicium, et os meum replebo increpationibus,
to arrange to/for face: before his justice and lip my to fill argument
5 Ut sciam verba, quæ mihi respondeat, et intelligam quid loquatur mihi.
to know speech to answer me and to understand what? to say to/for me
6 Nolo multa fortitudine contendat mecum, nec magnitudinis suæ mole me premat.
in/on/with abundance strength to contend with me me not surely he/she/it to set: consider in/on/with me
7 Proponat æquitatem contra me, et perveniat ad victoriam iudicium meum.
there upright to rebuke with him and to escape to/for perpetuity from to judge me
8 Si ad Orientem iero, non apparet: si ad Occidentem, non intelligam eum.
look! front: forward to go: went and nothing he and back and not to understand to/for him
9 Si ad sinistram, quid agam? non apprehendam eum: si me vertam ad dexteram, non videbo illum.
left in/on/with to make: do he and not to see to turn aside right and not to see: see
10 Ipse vero scit viam meam, et probavit me quasi aurum, quod per ignem transit:
for to know way: conduct with me me to test me like/as gold to come out: come
11 Vestigia eius secutus est pes meus, viam eius custodivi, et non declinavi ex ea.
in/on/with step his to grasp foot my way: conduct his to keep: obey and not to stretch
12 A mandatis labiorum eius non recessi, et in sinu meo abscondi verba oris eius.
commandment lips his and not to remove from statute: portion my to treasure word lip his
13 Ipse enim solus est, et nemo avertere potest cogitationem eius: et anima eius quodcumque voluit, hoc fecit.
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 Cum expleverit in me voluntatem suam, et alia multa similia præsto sunt ei.
for to complete statute: portion my and like/as them many with him
15 Et idcirco a facie eius turbatus sum, et considerans eum, timore sollicitor.
upon so from face his to dismay to understand and to dread from him
16 Deus mollivit cor meum, et Omnipotens conturbavit me.
and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me
17 Non enim perii propter imminentes tenebras, nec faciem meam operuit caligo.
for not to destroy from face: before darkness and from face my to cover darkness

< Job 23 >