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Job 23
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
2Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.
2Also--to-day <FI>is<Fi> my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.
3Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?
3O that I had known--and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,
4I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.
4I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill <FI>with<Fi> arguments.
5That I might know the words that he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
5I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.
6I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness.
6In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth <FI>it<Fi> in me.
7Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.
7There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.
8But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I shall not understand him.
8Lo, forward I go--and He is not, And backward--and I perceive him not.
9If 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.
9<FI> To<Fi> the left in His working--and I see not, He is covered <FI>on<Fi> the right, and I behold not.
10But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:
10For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me--as gold I go forth.
11My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it.
11On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,
12I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.
12The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.
13For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done.
13And He <FI>is<Fi> in one <FI>mind<Fi> , And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired--and He doth <FI>it<Fi> .
14And when he shall have fulfilled his will in me, many other like things are also at hand with him.
14For He doth complete my portion, And many such things <FI>are<Fi> with Him.
15And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider him, I am made pensive with fear.
15Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him.