Job 23

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1 Job tomó la palabra y dijo:	1 Again Job answered and said:
2 Todavía mi queja es una rebelión; su mano pesa sobre mi gemido.	2 Though I know my complaint is bitter, his hand is heavy upon me in my groanings.
3 ¡Quién me diera saber encontrarle, poder llegar a su morada!	3 Oh, that today I might find him, that I might come to his judgment seat!
4 Un proceso abriría delante de él, llenaría mi boca de argumentos.	4 I would set out my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;
5 Sabría las palabras de su réplica, comprendería lo que me dijera.	5 I would learn the words with which he would answer, and understand what he would reply to me.
6 ¿Precisaría gran fuerza para disputar conmigo? No, tan sólo tendría que prestarme atención.	6 Even should he contend against me with his great power, yet, would that he himself might heed me!
7 Reconocería en su adversario a un hombre recto, y yo me libraría de mi juez para siempre.	7 There the upright man might reason with him, and I should once and for all preserve my rights.
8 Si voy hacia el oriente, no está allí; si al occidente, no le advierto.	8 But if I go to the east, he is not there; or to the west, I cannot perceive him;
9 Cuando le busco al norte, no aparece, y tampoco le veo si vuelvo al mediodía.	9 Where the north enfolds him, I behold him not; by the south he is veiled, and I see him not.
10 Pero él mis pasos todos sabe: ¡probado en el crisol, saldré oro puro!	10 Yet he knows my way; if he proved me, I should come forth as gold.
11 Mi pie se ha adherido a su paso, he guardado su ruta sin desvío;	11 My foot has always walked in his steps; his way I have kept and have not turned aside.
12 del mandato de sus labios no me aparto, he albergado en mi seno las palabras de su boca.	12 From the commands of his lips I have not departed; the words of his mouth I have treasured in my heart.
13 Mas él decide, ¿quién le hará retractarse? Lo que su alma ha proyectado lleva a término.	13 But he had decided, and who can say him nay? What he desires, that he does.
14 Así ejecutará mi sentencia, como tantas otras decisiones suyas.	14 For he will carry out what is appointed for me; and many such things may yet be in his mind.
15 Por eso estoy, ante él, horrorizado, y cuanto más lo pienso, más me espanta.	15 Therefore am I dismayed before him; when I take thought, I fear him.
16 Dios me ha enervado el corazón, Sadday me ha aterrorizado.	16 Indeed God has made my courage fail; the Almighty has put me in dismay.
17 Pues no he desaparecido en las tinieblas, pero él ha cubierto de oscuridad mi rostro.	17 Yes, would that I had vanished in darkness, and that thick gloom were before me to conceal me.