Job 23

Clementine Vulgate, 1598

King James Version with Apocrypha

1Respondens autem Job, ait:

1Then Job answered and said,

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

2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

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

3Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

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

4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

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

5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

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

6Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

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

7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

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

8Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

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

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:

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

10But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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

11My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

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

12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food .

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

13But he is in one mind , and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

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

14For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

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

15Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

16Deus mollivit cor meum, et Omnipotens conturbavit me.

16For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

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

17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

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