| 1 | And Job answereth and saith: -- |
| 2 | Also—to-day [is] my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing. |
| 3 | O that I had known—and I find Him, I come in unto His seat, |
| 4 | I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill [with] arguments. |
| 5 | I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me. |
| 6 | In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth [it] in me. |
| 7 | There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge. |
| 8 | Lo, forward I go—and He is not, And backward—and I perceive him not. |
| 9 | [To] the left in His working—and I see not, He is covered [on] the right, and I behold not. |
| 10 | For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me—as gold I go forth. |
| 11 | On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside, |
| 12 | The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth. |
| 13 | And He [is] in one [mind], And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired—and He doth [it]. |
| 14 | For He doth complete my portion, And many such things [are] with Him. |
| 15 | Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him. |
| 16 | And God hath made my heart soft, And the Mighty hath troubled me. |
| 17 | For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness. |