Job 23

Berean Standard Bible

Clementine Vulgate, 1598

1Then Job answered:

1Respondens autem Job, ait:

2“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

2[Nunc quoque in amaritudine est sermo meus, et manus plagæ meæ aggravata est super gemitum meum.

3If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

3Quis mihi tribuat ut cognoscam et inveniam illum, et veniam usque ad solium ejus?

4I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.

4Ponam coram eo judicium, et os meum replebo increpationibus:

5I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.

5ut sciam verba quæ mihi respondeat, et intelligam quid loquatur mihi.

6Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.

6Nolo multa fortitudine contendat mecum, nec magnitudinis suæ mole me premat.

7Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

7Proponat æquitatem contra me, et perveniat ad victoriam judicium meum.

8If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.

8Si ad orientem iero, non apparet; si ad occidentem, non intelligam eum.

9When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him.

9Si ad sinistram, quid agam? non apprehendam eum; si me vertam ad dexteram, non videbo illum.

10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

10Ipse vero scit viam meam, et probavit me quasi aurum quod per ignem transit.

11My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.

11Vestigia ejus secutus est pes meus: viam ejus custodivi, et non declinavi ex ea.

12I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

12A mandatis labiorum ejus non recessi, et in sinu meo abscondi verba oris ejus.

13But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.

13Ipse enim solus est, et nemo avertere potest cogitationem ejus: et anima ejus quodcumque voluit, hoc fecit.

14For He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.

14Cum expleverit in me voluntatem suam, et alia multa similia præsto sunt ei.

15Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.

15Et idcirco a facie ejus turbatus sum, et considerans eum, timore sollicitor.

16God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

16Deus mollivit cor meum, et Omnipotens conturbavit me.

17Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

17Non enim perii propter imminentes tenebras, nec faciem meam operuit caligo.]

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