Job 23
King James Version with ApocryphaTranslation
King James Version with Apocrypha
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1Then Job answered and said,
1Respondens autem Job, ait:
2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
2[Nunc quoque in amaritudine est sermo meus, et manus plagæ meæ aggravata est super gemitum meum.
3Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
3Quis mihi tribuat ut cognoscam et inveniam illum, et veniam usque ad solium ejus?
4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
4Ponam coram eo judicium, et os meum replebo increpationibus:
5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
5ut sciam verba quæ mihi respondeat, et intelligam quid loquatur mihi.
6Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
6Nolo multa fortitudine contendat mecum, nec magnitudinis suæ mole me premat.
7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
7Proponat æquitatem contra me, et perveniat ad victoriam judicium meum.
8Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
8Si ad orientem iero, non apparet; si ad occidentem, non intelligam eum.
9On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
9Si ad sinistram, quid agam? non apprehendam eum; si me vertam ad dexteram, non videbo illum.
10But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
10Ipse vero scit viam meam, et probavit me quasi aurum quod per ignem transit.
11My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
11Vestigia ejus secutus est pes meus: viam ejus custodivi, et non declinavi ex ea.
12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food .
12A mandatis labiorum ejus non recessi, et in sinu meo abscondi verba oris ejus.
13But he is in one mind , and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
13Ipse enim solus est, et nemo avertere potest cogitationem ejus: et anima ejus quodcumque voluit, hoc fecit.
14For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
14Cum expleverit in me voluntatem suam, et alia multa similia præsto sunt ei.
15Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
15Et idcirco a facie ejus turbatus sum, et considerans eum, timore sollicitor.
16For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
16Deus mollivit cor meum, et Omnipotens conturbavit me.
17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
17Non enim perii propter imminentes tenebras, nec faciem meam operuit caligo.]
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