Job 9
1 and to answer Job and to say
Then responded Job, and said—
2 truly to know for so and what? to justify human with God
Of a truth, I know that so it is, But how can a mortal be just with GOD?
3 if to delight in to/for to contend with him not to answer him one from thousand
If he choose to contend with him, he cannot answer him, one of a thousand:
4 wise heart and strong strength who? to harden to(wards) him and to complete
Wise in heart, and alert in vigour, What man hath hardened himself against him, and prospered!
5 [the] to proceed mountain: mount and not to know which to overturn them in/on/with face: anger his
Who removeth mountains, unawares, Who overturneth them in his anger;
6 [the] to tremble land: country/planet from place her and pillar her to shudder [emph?]
Who shaketh the earth, out of its place, and, the pillars thereof, shudder;
7 [the] to say to/for sun and not to rise and about/through/for star to seal
Who commandeth the sun, and it breaketh not forth, and, about the stars, he putteth a seal;
8 to stretch heaven to/for alone him and to tread upon high place sea
Who spreadeth out fire heavens, by himself alone! and marcheth along, on the heights of the sea;
9 to make Bear Orion and Pleiades and chamber south
Who made the Bear, the Giant and the Cluster, and the chambers of the south;
10 to make: do great: large till nothing search and to wonder till nothing number
Who doeth great things, past finding out, and marvels, beyond number.
11 look! to pass upon me and not to see: see and to pass and not to understand to/for him
Lo! he cometh upon me, yet can I not see him, Yea he passeth on, yet can I not discern him.
12 look! to seize who? to return: return him who? to say to(wards) him what? to make: do
Lo! he snatcheth away, who can bring it back? Who shall say unto him, What wouldst thou do?
13 god not to return: turn back face: anger his (underneath: under him *Qk) to bow to help Rahab monster
As for GOD, if he withdraw not his anger, under him, will have submitted themselves—the proud helpers.
14 also for I to answer him to choose word my with him
How much less that, I, should answer him, should choose my words with him?
15 which if to justify not to answer to/for to judge me be gracious
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, to be absolved, I would make supplication.
16 if to call: call to and to answer me not be faithful for to listen voice my
Though I had called, and he had answered me, I could not believe, that he would lend an ear to my voice.
17 which in/on/with storm to bruise me and to multiply wound my for nothing
For, with a tempest, would he fall upon me, and would multiply my wounds without need;
18 not to give: allow me to return: return spirit: breath my for to satisfy me bitterness
He would not suffer me to recover my breath, for he would surfeit me with bitter things.
19 if to/for strength strong behold and if to/for justice who? to appoint me
If it regardeth vigour, bold is he! If justice, who could summon him?
20 if to justify lip my be wicked me complete I and to twist me
If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me, —I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.
21 complete I not to know soul my to reject life my
I blameless? I should not know my own soul, I should despise my own life!
22 one he/she/it upon so to say complete and wicked he/she/it to end: destroy
One thing, there is, for which cause, I have said it, The blameless and the lawless, he bringeth to an end.
23 if whip to die suddenly to/for despair innocent to mock
If, a scourge, slay suddenly, at the despair of innocent ones, he mocketh.
24 land: country/planet to give: give in/on/with hand: power wicked face to judge her to cover if not then who? he/she/it
The earth, hath been given into the hand of a lawless one, The faces of her judges, he covereth, If not, then who is it?
25 and day my to lighten from to run: run to flee not to see: see welfare
My days, therefore, are swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have seen no good.
26 to pass with fleet papyrus like/as eagle to dart upon food
They have passed away with boats of paper-reed, like a vulture [which] rusheth upon food.
27 if to say I to forget complaint my to leave: release face my and be cheerful
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will lay aside my sad countenance, and brighten up,
28 to fear all injury my to know for not to clear me
I am afraid of all my pains, I know, that thou wilt not pronounce me innocent.
29 I be wicked to/for what? this vanity be weary/toil
I, shall be held guilty, —Wherefore then, in vain, should I toil?
30 if to wash: wash (in/on/with water *QK) snow and be clean in/on/with lye palm my
Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands,
31 then in/on/with pit: grave to dip me and to abhor me garment my
Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me:
32 for not man like me to answer him to come (in): come together in/on/with justice: judgement
For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment:
33 not there between us to rebuke to set: put hand his upon two our
There is not, between us, a mediator, who might lay his hand upon us both.
34 to turn aside: remove from upon me tribe: staff his and terror his not to terrify me
Let him take from off me his rod, and, his terror, let it not startle me:
35 to speak: speak and not to fear him for not so I with me me
I could speak, and not be afraid of him, although, not so, am, I, in myself!
