1 Y RESPONDIO Job, y dijo:

And Job answered and said,

2 H oy también hablaré con amargura; Que es más grave mi llaga que mi gemido.

Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

3 Q uién me diera el saber dónde hallar á Dios! Yo iría hasta su silla.

Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat!

4 O rdenaría juicio delante de él, Y henchiría mi boca de argumentos.

I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;

5 Y o sabría lo que él me respondería, Y entendería lo que me dijese.

I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

6 ¿ Pleitearía conmigo con grandeza de fuerza? No: antes él la pondría en mí.

Would he plead against me with great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.

7 A llí el justo razonaría con él: Y escaparía para siempre de mi juez.

There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge.

8 H e aquí yo iré al oriente, y no lo hallaré; Y al occidente, y no lo percibiré:

Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;

9 S i al norte él obrare, yo no lo veré; Al mediodía se esconderá, y no lo veré.

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see not.

10 M as él conoció mi camino: Probaráme, y saldré como oro.

But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.

11 M is pies tomaron su rastro; Guardé su camino, y no me aparté.

My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.

12 D el mandamiento de sus labios nunca me separé; Guardé las palabras de su boca más que mi comida.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.

13 E mpero si él se determina en una cosa, ¿quién lo apartará? Su alma deseó, é hizo.

But he is in one, and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do.

14 E l pues acabará lo que ha determinado de mí: Y muchas cosas como estas hay en él.

For he will perform is appointed for me; and many such things are with him.

15 P or lo cual yo me espanto en su presencia: Consideraré, y temerélo.

Therefore am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him.

16 D ios ha enervado mi corazón, Y hame turbado el Omnipotente.

For God hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;

17 ¿ Por qué no fuí yo cortado delante de las tinieblas, Y cubrió con oscuridad mi rostro?

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.