Job 23

respondens autem Iob dixit

Then Job answered and said,

nunc quoque in amaritudine est sermo meus et manus plagae meae adgravata est super gemitum meum

Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

quis mihi tribuat ut cognoscam et inveniam illum et veniam usque ad solium eius

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

ponam coram eo iudicium et os meum replebo increpationibus

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

ut sciam verba quae mihi respondeat et intellegam quid loquatur mihi

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

nolo multa fortitudine contendat mecum nec magnitudinis suae mole me premat

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

proponat aequitatem contra me et perveniat ad victoriam iudicium meum

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

si ad orientem iero non apparet si ad occidentem non intellegam eum

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

si ad sinistram quid agat non adprehendam eum si me vertam ad dextram non videbo illum

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:

ipse vero scit viam meam et probavit me quasi aurum quod per ignem transit

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

vestigia eius secutus est pes meus viam eius custodivi et non declinavi ex ea

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

a mandatis labiorum eius non recessi et in sinu meo abscondi verba oris eius

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

ipse enim solus est et nemo avertere potest cogitationem eius et anima eius quodcumque voluerit hoc facit

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

cum expleverit in me voluntatem suam et alia multa similia praesto sunt ei

For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

et idcirco a facie eius turbatus sum et considerans eum timore sollicitor

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

Deus mollivit cor meum et Omnipotens conturbavit me

For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

non enim perii propter inminentes tenebras nec faciem meam operuit caligo

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.