Job 23

Clementine Vulgate, 1598

Berean Standard Bible

1Respondens autem Job, ait:

1Then Job answered:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16Deus mollivit cor meum, et Omnipotens conturbavit me.

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

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

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

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