Job 23

World English Bible

Clementine Vulgate, 1598

1Then Job answered,

1Respondens autem Job, ait:

2“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of 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 set my cause in order 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 tell me.

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

6Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

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

7There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

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

8“If I go east, he is not there. If I go west, I can’t find him.

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

9He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.

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

10But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

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

11My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

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

12I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up 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 stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

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

14For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

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

15Therefore I am terrified 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 has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

16Deus mollivit cor meum, et Omnipotens conturbavit me.

17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

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

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