Job 23 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Job 23:1Then Job answered and said,

Job 23:2Yea, I know that pleading is out of my reach; and his hand has been made heavy upon my groaning.

Job 23:3Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end of the matter?

Job 23:4And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments.

Job 23:5And I would know the remedies which he would speak to me, and I would perceive what he would tell me.

Job 23:6Though he should come on me in his great strength, then he would not threaten me;

Job 23:7for truth and reproof are from him; and he would bring forth my judgment to an end.

Job 23:8For if I shall go first, and exist no longer, still what do I know concerning the latter end?

Job 23:9When he wrought on the left hand, then I observed it not: his right hand shall encompass me but I shall not see it.

Job 23:10For he knows already my way; and he has tried me as gold.

Job 23:11And I will go forth according to his commandments, for I have kept his ways; and I shall not turn aside from his commandments,

Job 23:12neither shall I transgress; but I have hid his words in my bosom.

Job 23:13And if too he has thus judged, who is he that has contradicted, for he has both willed a thing and done it.

Job 23:15Therefore am I troubled at him; and when I was reproved, I thought of him.

Job 23:16But the Lord has softened my heart, and the Almighty has troubled me.

Job 23:17For I knew not that darkness would come upon me, and thick darkness has covered me before my face.

Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain