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Job 23
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
2Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
2Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.
3Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat!
3If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!
4I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;
4I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.
5I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
5I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.
6Would he plead against me with [his] great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.
6Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.
7There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge.
7There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.
8Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;
8See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;
9On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold [him] not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see [him] not.
9I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.
10But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.
10For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.
11My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.
11My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.
12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.
12I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.
13But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do.
13But his purpose is fixed and there is no changing it; and he gives effect to the desire of his soul.
14For he will perform [what] is appointed for me; and many such things are with him.
14For what has been ordered for me by him will be gone through to the end: and his mind is full of such designs.
15Therefore am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him.
15For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.