YLT - Job - 23

23:1  And Job answereth and saith: --

23:2  Also--to-day is my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.

23:3  O that I had known--and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

23:4  I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill with arguments.

23:5  I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.

23:6  In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth it in me.

23:7  There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.

23:8  Lo, forward I go--and He is not, And backward--and I perceive him not.

23:9  To the left in His working--and I see not, He is covered on the right, and I behold not.

23:10  For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me--as gold I go forth.

23:11  On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,

23:12  The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

23:13  And He is in one mind , And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired--and He doth it .

23:14  For He doth complete my portion, And many such things are with Him.

23:15  Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him.

23:16  And God hath made my heart soft, And the Mighty hath troubled me.

23:17  For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.