Job 9 — Novel English Bible

1 Then Ayawab (Job) inah (answer / respond),

2 “Truly I yadai (know) that it is so, but how can anawash (man) be tzadaq (righteous / just / fair) with Al?

3 If he is pleased to rayab (contend) with him, he can't inah (answer / respond) him achad (one) time in a alap (thousand).

4 Alahayam () who is wise in labab (heart), and amayatz (mighty) in kach (strength / mighty / power): who qashah (rough / hard) hardened himself against him, and shalam (prospered)?

5 He ithaq (removes) the harayam (mountains), and they don't yadai (know) it, when he overturns them in his ap (nostril / picture: bull snorting).

6 He ragaz (shakes) the aratz (Earth/land) out of its maqawam (place). Its imawad (pillar) palatz (tremble).

7 He commands the charas (sun), and it doesn't zarach (rise), and chatham (seals) up the kawakabayam (stars).

8 He natah (alone) stretches out the shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens), and darak (treads) on the bamathay (waves) of the yam (sea/waters).

9 He ishah (make) the Bear, kasayal (orion), and the kayamah (pleiades), and the rooms of the thayaman (south).

10 He ishah (make) gadawal (very great/important/mighty) things ayan (NO ONE) chaqar (finding) out; yes, palaa (be wonderful / extraordinary / marvelous) things without masapar (number).

11 Behold, he ibar (pass over/through) by me, and I don't raah (see / saw) him. He passes on also, but I don't bayan (between) him.

12 Behold, he snatches chathap (away). Who can shawab (turn) him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you ishah (make)?’

13 “Alawah () will not shawab (turn back / repent) his ap (nostril / picture: bull snorting). The helpers of rahab (rahab) shachach (stoop) under him.

14 How much less shall I inah (answer / respond) him, And bachar (choose) my dabar (word / matter) to argue with him?

15 Though I were tzadaq (righteous / just / fair), yet I wouldn't inah (answer / respond) him. I would chanan (showing favor) supplication to my shapat (judge / judgement).

16 If I had qaraa (called), and he had inah (answer / respond) me, yet I wouldn't aman (believe / have faith) that he listened to my qawal (sound / voice).

17 For he shawap (breaks) me with a shairah (storm), and rabah (multiplies) my patzai (wounds) chanam (without) cause.

18 He will not allow me to catch my rawach (spirit / wind), but shabai (fills) me with mamarar (bitterness).

19 If it is a matter of kach (strength / mighty / power), behold, he is amayatz (mighty)! If of mashapat (justice), ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

20 Though I am tzadaq (righteous / just / fair), my own pah (mouth) shall rashai (condemn) me. Though I am blameless, it shall iqash (prove) me perverse.

21 I am blameless. I don't yadai (respect) myself. I maas (despise) my napash (soul).

22 “It is all the same. Therefore I amar (said) he kalah (complete / finish) the blameless and the rashai (wicked).

23 If the shawat (scourge) mawath (death) pathaawam (suddenly), he will laig (mock) at the masah (trial) of the naqay (innocent).

24 The aratz (Earth/land) is nathan (give) into the yad (hand) of the rashai (wicked). He kasah (covers) the panay (face of) of its shapat (judge / judgement). If not he, then who is it?

25 “Now my yawam (day) are qalal (swifter) than a runner. They barach (flee) away, they raah (see / saw) no tawab (good / proper function),

26 They have chalap (passed) away as the abah (be willing / desire) anayawath (ships), as the nashar (eagle) that swoops on the akal (prey).

27 If I amar (said), ‘I will shakach (forget) my shayach (complaint), I will put off my sad panayam (face), and cheer up;’

28 I am yagar (afraid) of all my itzabath (sorrows), I yadai (know) that you will not hold me naqah (clean/innocent).

29 I shall be rashai (condemned). Why then do I yagai (labor) in habal (vain)?

30 If I rachatz (wash) myself with snow, and cleanse my kap (hands) with lye,

31 Yet you will tabal (plunge) me in the shachath (ditch). My own shalamah (Solomon - Patriarch) shall thaib (abhor) me.

32 For he is not a ayash (man / husband), as I am, that I should inah (answer / respond) him, that we should bawaa (bring) yachad (together) in mashapat (judgment).

33 There is no umpire between us, that might shayath (put / appoint / make) his yad (hand) on us shanayam (two).

34 Let him sawar (take) his shabat (rod) sawar (away) from me. Let his ayamah (terror) not make me afraid;

35 Then I would dabar (word / matter), and not yaraa (fear / be afraid) him, for I am not so in myself.