Giobbe 23

NOVA VULGATA	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Respondens autem Iob ait:	1 Again Job answered and said:
2 “ Nunc quoque in amaritu tudine est querela mea, et manus eius aggravata est super gemitum meum.	2 Though I know my complaint is bitter, his hand is heavy upon me in my groanings.
3 Quis mihi tribuat, ut cognoscam et inveniam illum et veniam usque ad solium eius?	3 Oh, that today I might find him, that I might come to his judgment seat!
4 Ponam coram eo iudicium et os meum replebo increpationibus,	4 I would set out my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;
5 ut sciam verba, quae mihi respondeat, et intellegam quid loquatur mihi.	5 I would learn the words with which he would answer, and understand what he would reply to me.
6 Num multa fortitudine contendet mecum? Non! Ipse tantum audiat!	6 Even should he contend against me with his great power, yet, would that he himself might heed me!
7 Tunc iustus disceptabit cum illo, et ego evaderem in perpetuo a iudice meo.	7 There the upright man might reason with him, and I should once and for all preserve my rights.
8 Si ad orientem iero, non apparet; si ad occidentem, non intellegam eum.	8 But if I go to the east, he is not there; or to the west, I cannot perceive him;
9 Si ad sinistram pergam, non apprehendam eum; si me vertam ad dexteram, non videbo illum.	9 Where the north enfolds him, I behold him not; by the south he is veiled, and I see him not.
10 Ipse vero scit viam meam, et, si probaverit me, quasi aurum egrediar.	10 Yet he knows my way; if he proved me, I should come forth as gold.
11 Vestigia eius secutus est pes meus, viam eius custodivi et non declinavi ex ea.	11 My foot has always walked in his steps; his way I have kept and have not turned aside.
12 A mandatis labiorum eius non recessi et in sinu meo abscondi verba oris eius.	12 From the commands of his lips I have not departed; the words of his mouth I have treasured in my heart.
13 Ipse enim solus est, et quis repellet eum? Et anima eius, quodcumque voluit, hoc fecit.	13 But he had decided, and who can say him nay? What he desires, that he does.
14 Cum expleverit in me voluntatem suam, et alia multa similia praesto sunt ei;	14 For he will carry out what is appointed for me; and many such things may yet be in his mind.
15 et idcirco a facie eius turbatus sum et considerans eum timore sollicitor.	15 Therefore am I dismayed before him; when I take thought, I fear him.
16 Deus mollivit cor meum, et Omnipotens conturbavit me.	16 Indeed God has made my courage fail; the Almighty has put me in dismay.
17 Non enim perii propter imminentes tenebras, nec faciem meam operuit caligo.	17 Yes, would that I had vanished in darkness, and that thick gloom were before me to conceal me.