Job 9
1 Then Job answered,
and to answer Job and to say
2 “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?
truly to know for so and what? to justify human with God
3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand.
if to delight in to/for to contend with him not to answer him one from thousand
4 God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
wise heart and strong strength who? to harden to(wards) him and to complete
5 He removes the mountains, and they do not know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
[the] to proceed mountain: mount and not to know which to overturn them in/on/with face: anger his
6 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
[the] to tremble land: country/planet from place her and pillar her to shudder [emph?]
7 He commands the sun and it does not rise, and seals up the stars.
[the] to say to/for sun and not to rise and about/through/for star to seal
8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
to stretch heaven to/for alone him and to tread upon high place sea
9 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
to make Bear Orion and Pleiades and chamber south
10 He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
to make: do great: large till nothing search and to wonder till nothing number
11 Behold, he goes by me, and I do not see him. He passes on also, but I do not perceive him.
look! to pass upon me and not to see: see and to pass and not to understand to/for him
12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’
look! to seize who? to return: return him who? to say to(wards) him what? to make: do
13 “God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
god not to return: turn back face: anger his (underneath: under him *Qk) to bow to help Rahab monster
14 How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
also for I to answer him to choose word my with him
15 Though I were righteous, yet I would not answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
which if to justify not to answer to/for to judge me be gracious
16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I would not believe that he listened to my voice.
if to call: call to and to answer me not be faithful for to listen voice my
17 For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
which in/on/with storm to bruise me and to multiply wound my for nothing
18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
not to give: allow me to return: return spirit: breath my for to satisfy me bitterness
19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
if to/for strength strong behold and if to/for justice who? to appoint me
20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
if to justify lip my be wicked me complete I and to twist me
21 I am blameless. I do not respect myself. I despise my life.
complete I not to know soul my to reject life my
22 “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
one he/she/it upon so to say complete and wicked he/she/it to end: destroy
23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.
if whip to die suddenly to/for despair innocent to mock
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
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
25 “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
and day my to lighten from to run: run to flee not to see: see welfare
26 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
to pass with fleet papyrus like/as eagle to dart upon food
27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
if to say I to forget complaint my to leave: release face my and be cheerful
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
to fear all injury my to know for not to clear me
29 I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
I be wicked to/for what? this vanity be weary/toil
30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
if to wash: wash (in/on/with water *QK) snow and be clean in/on/with lye palm my
31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
then in/on/with pit: grave to dip me and to abhor me garment my
32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
for not man like me to answer him to come (in): come together in/on/with justice: judgement
33 There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
not there between us to rebuke to set: put hand his upon two our
34 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
to turn aside: remove from upon me tribe: staff his and terror his not to terrify me
35 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.
to speak: speak and not to fear him for not so I with me me
