|
|
| [1]Then Job answered and said: |
[1]But Job answered and said, |
| [2]Even to-day is my complaint bitter; my hand is become heavy because of my groaning. |
[2]Though my talk be this day in bitterness, and my plague greater than my groaning, |
| [3]Oh that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to His seat! |
[3]Would God yet I knew how to find him, I would enter unto his place. |
| [4]I would order my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments. |
[4]I would plead the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. |
| [5]I would know the words which He would answer me, and understand what He would say unto me. |
[5]I would know the words , that he would answer me, and would understand what he would say unto me. |
| [6]Would He contend with me in His great power? Nay; but He would give heed unto me. |
[6]Would he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me. |
| [7]There the upright might reason with Him; so should I be delivered for ever from my Judge. |
[7]There the righteous might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge. |
| [8]Behold, I go forward, but He is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive Him; |
[8]Behold, if I go to the east, he is not there: if to the west, yet I cannot perceive him: |
| [9]On the left hand, when He doth work, but I cannot behold Him, He turneth Himself to the right hand, but I cannot see Him. |
[9]If to the north where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he will hide himself in the south, and I cannot behold him. |
| [10]For He knoweth the way that I take; when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. |
[10]But he knoweth my way , and trieth me, and I shall come forth like the gold. |
| [11]My foot hath held fast to His steps, His way have I kept, and turned not aside. |
[11]My foot hath followed his steps: his way have I kept, and have not declined. |
| [12]I have not gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured up the words of His mouth more than my necessary food. |
[12]Neither have I departed from the commandment of his lips , and I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than mine appointed food. |
| [13]But He is at one with Himself, and who can turn Him? And what His soul desireth, even that He doeth. |
[13]Yet he is in one mind, and who can turn him? Yea, he doeth what his mind desireth. |
| [14]For He will perform that which is appointed for me; and many such things are with Him. |
[14]For he will perform that, which is decreed of me, and many such things are with him. |
| [15]Therefore am I affrighted at His presence; when I consider, I am afraid of Him. |
[15]Therefore I am troubled at his presence, and in considering it, I am afraid of him. |
| [16]Yea, God hath made my heart faint, and the Almighty hath affrighted me; |
[16]For God hath softened mine heart, and the Almighty hath troubled me. |
| [17]Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did He cover the thick darkness from my face. |
[17]For I am not cut off in darkness, but he hath hid the darkness from my face. |