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