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King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation |
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| 23:1 | Then Job answered and said, | And Job answereth and saith: -- |
| 23:2 | Even to day is my complaint bitter: |
Also -- to-day `is' my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing. |
| 23:3 | Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! | O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat, |
| 23:4 | I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. | I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill `with' arguments. |
| 23:5 | I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. | I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me. |
| 23:6 | Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. | In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth `it' in me. |
| 23:7 | There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. | There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge. |
| 23:8 | Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: | Lo, forward I go -- and He is not, And backward -- and I perceive him not. |
| 23:9 | On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: | `To' the left in His working -- and I see not, He is covered `on' the right, and I behold not. |
| 23:10 | But he knoweth |
For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me -- as gold I go forth. |
| 23:11 | My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. | On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside, |
| 23:12 | Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; |
The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth. |
| 23:13 | But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. | And He `is' in one `mind', And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired -- and He doth `it'. |
| 23:14 | For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. | For He doth complete my portion, And many such things `are' with Him. |
| 23:15 | Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. | Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him. |
| 23:16 | For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: | And God hath made my heart soft, And the Mighty hath troubled me. |
| 23:17 | Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. | For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness. |