DRC, VulgClementine, KJV - Job - 23

23:1  Then Job answered, and said:

23:1  Respondens autem Job, ait :

23:1  Then Job answered and said,

23:2  Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.

23:2  Nunc quoque in amaritudine est sermo meus, et manus plagæ meæ aggravata est super gemitum meum.

23:2  Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

23:3  Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?

23:3  Quis mihi tribuat ut cognoscam et inveniam illum, et veniam usque ad solium ejus ?

23:3  Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

23:4  I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.

23:4  Ponam coram eo judicium, et os meum replebo increpationibus :

23:4  I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

23:5  That I might know the words that he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

23:5  ut sciam verba quæ mihi respondeat, et intelligam quid loquatur mihi.

23:5  I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

23:6  I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness.

23:6  Nolo multa fortitudine contendat mecum, nec magnitudinis suæ mole me premat.

23:6  Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

23:7  Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.

23:7  Proponat æquitatem contra me, et perveniat ad victoriam judicium meum.

23:7  There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

23:8  But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I shall not understand him.

23:8  Si ad orientem iero, non apparet ; si ad occidentem, non intelligam eum.

23:8  Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

23:9  If to the left hand, what shall I do? I shall not take hold on him: if I turn myself to the right hand, I shall not see him.

23:9  Si ad sinistram, quid agam ? non apprehendam eum ; si me vertam ad dexteram, non videbo illum.

23:9  On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

23:10  But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:

23:10  Ipse vero scit viam meam, et probavit me quasi aurum quod per ignem transit.

23:10  But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

23:11  My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it.

23:11  Vestigia ejus secutus est pes meus : viam ejus custodivi, et non declinavi ex ea.

23:11  My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

23:12  I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

23:12  A mandatis labiorum ejus non recessi, et in sinu meo abscondi verba oris ejus.

23:12  Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

23:13  For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done.

23:13  Ipse enim solus est, et nemo avertere potest cogitationem ejus : et anima ejus quodcumque voluit, hoc fecit.

23:13  But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

23:14  And when he shall have fulfilled his will in me, many other like things are also at hand with him.

23:14  Cum expleverit in me voluntatem suam, et alia multa similia præsto sunt ei.

23:14  For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

23:15  And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider him, I am made pensive with fear.

23:15  Et idcirco a facie ejus turbatus sum, et considerans eum, timore sollicitor.

23:15  Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

23:16  God hath softened my heart, and the Almighty hath troubled me.

23:16  Deus mollivit cor meum, et Omnipotens conturbavit me.

23:16  For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

23:17  For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist covered my face.

23:17  Non enim perii propter imminentes tenebras, nec faciem meam operuit caligo.

23:17  Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.