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Job 23 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Job 23:1

Job 23:1And Job answereth and saith: --

Job 23:2

Job 23:2Also -- to-day is my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.

Job 23:3

Job 23:3O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

Job 23:4

Job 23:4I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill with arguments.

Job 23:5

Job 23:5I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.

Job 23:6

Job 23:6In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth it in me.

Job 23:7

Job 23:7There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.

Job 23:8

Job 23:8Lo, forward I go -- and He is not, And backward -- and I perceive him not.

Job 23:9

Job 23:9To the left in His working -- and I see not, He is covered on the right, and I behold not.

Job 23:10

Job 23:10For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me -- as gold I go forth.

Job 23:11

Job 23:11On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,

Job 23:12

Job 23:12The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

Job 23:13

Job 23:13And He is in one mind, And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired -- and He doth it.

Job 23:14

Job 23:14For He doth complete my portion, And many such things are with Him.

Job 23:15

Job 23:15Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him.

Job 23:16

Job 23:16And God hath made my heart soft, And the Mighty hath troubled me.

Job 23:17

Job 23:17For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.
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The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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