Thomson(i)
1 In reply to this, Job said,
2 I know very well, this trial is not in my disposal. And that his hand is made heavy by my groaning.
3 But O that some person would let me know, that I might find him, and come to an issue;
4 that I might order the trial of myself, and that he would stop my mouth with arguments
5 That I might know what remedies he will prescribe for me, and understand what he will announce to me!
6 Though he may come against me with great majesty, he will not employ it in threatening me.
7 For truth and argument proceed from him; and he would bring my cause to an issue.
8 For if I am to go first and am no more, how do I know what will be at the last?
9 When he wrought on my left, I comprehended not; he may encompass my right and I not see.
10 For he already knoweth my way and hath tried me like gold.
11 And I will come out at his commands; for I have kept his ways, and will not turn aside from his commands,
12 nor transgress in my bosom: indeed I have hid his words.
13 But if he hath judged thus, who can gainsay him? For he hath done what was his pleasure.
14 For this cause my shuddering is at him; and on being chastened, I thought of him.
15 For this cause I am to be awed at his presence; I am to meditate on and be in dread of him.
16 It is the Lord indeed who hath softened my heart. It is the Almighty who hath made me shudder.
17 For I had no knowledge of darkness coining upon me; and he had hid from my view thick darkness before me.