1And Job answers and says:2“Also—today my complaint [is] bitter, My hand has been heavy because of my sighing.3O that I had known—and I find Him, I come to His seat,4I arrange the cause before Him, And fill my mouth [with] arguments.5I know the words He answers me, And understand what He says to me.6Does He strive with me in the abundance of power? No! Surely He puts [it] in me.7There the upright reason with Him, And I escape from mine who is judging—forever.8Behold, I go forward—and He is not, And backward—and I do not perceive Him.9[To] the left in His working—and I do not see, He is covered [on] the right, and I do not behold.10For He has known the way with me, He has tried me—I go forth as gold.11My foot has laid hold on His step, I have kept His way, and do not turn aside,12The command of His lips, and I do not depart. I have laid up above my allotted portion The sayings of His mouth.13And He [is] in one [mind], And who turns Him back? And His soul has desired—and He does [it].14For He completes my portion, And many such things [are] with Him.15Therefore, I am troubled at His presence, I consider, and am afraid of Him.16And God has made my heart soft, And the Mighty has troubled me.17For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.”
