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1 Respondens autem Job, ait:
1 Then Job answered,
2 [Nunc quoque in amaritudine est sermo meus, et manus plagæ meæ aggravata est super gemitum meum.
2 “Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
3 Quis mihi tribuat ut cognoscam et inveniam illum, et veniam usque ad solium ejus?
3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
4 Ponam coram eo judicium, et os meum replebo increpationibus:
4 I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5 ut sciam verba quæ mihi respondeat, et intelligam quid loquatur mihi.
5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.
6 Nolo multa fortitudine contendat mecum, nec magnitudinis suæ mole me premat.
6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.
7 Proponat æquitatem contra me, et perveniat ad victoriam judicium meum.
7 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
8 Si ad orientem iero, non apparet; si ad occidentem, non intelligam eum.
8 “If I go east, he is not there. If I go west, I can’t find him.
9 Si ad sinistram, quid agam? non apprehendam eum; si me vertam ad dexteram, non videbo illum.
9 He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.
10 Ipse vero scit viam meam, et probavit me quasi aurum quod per ignem transit.
10 But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.
11 Vestigia ejus secutus est pes meus: viam ejus custodivi, et non declinavi ex ea.
11 My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.
12 A mandatis labiorum ejus non recessi, et in sinu meo abscondi verba oris ejus.
12 I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
13 Ipse enim solus est, et nemo avertere potest cogitationem ejus: et anima ejus quodcumque voluit, hoc fecit.
13 But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
14 Cum expleverit in me voluntatem suam, et alia multa similia præsto sunt ei.
14 For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.
15 Et idcirco a facie ejus turbatus sum, et considerans eum, timore sollicitor.
15 Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
16 Deus mollivit cor meum, et Omnipotens conturbavit me.
16 For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.
17 Non enim perii propter imminentes tenebras, nec faciem meam operuit caligo.]
17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
Cross references (16)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 2 Job 10:1; Job 7:11; Psalm 32:4; Job 6:2–3; Psalm 77:2–9
  2. 3 Job 16:21; Job 31:35–37; Hebrews 4:6; Jeremiah 14:7; Job 13:3
  3. 4 Job 13:18; Daniel 9:18–19; Job 37:19; Genesis 18:25–32; Joshua 7:8–9
  4. 5 1 Corinthians 4:3–4; Job 13:22–23; Job 10:2; Job 42:2–6
  5. 6 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; Job 13:21; Job 9:33–34; Ezekiel 20:35; Job 9:19
  6. 7 Job 13:3; Isaiah 1:18; Romans 8:1; Jeremiah 12:1; Jeremiah 3:5
  7. 8 Psalm 10:1; Job 9:11; Job 35:14; 1 Timothy 6:16; Psalm 13:1–3
  8. 9 Isaiah 8:17; Psalm 89:46
  9. 10 James 1:12; 1 Peter 1:7; James 1:2–4; Psalm 139:1–3; Zechariah 13:9
  10. 11 Psalm 44:18; 2 Peter 2:20–22; Psalm 17:5; Psalm 125:5; Romans 2:7
  11. 12 Jeremiah 15:16; Psalm 119:11; Psalm 119:103; John 4:34; Psalm 19:9–10
  12. 13 Psalm 115:3; Proverbs 19:21; Isaiah 46:10; Daniel 4:35; Job 12:14
  13. 14 1 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:9; Psalm 97:2; Romans 11:33; Isaiah 40:27–28
  14. 15 Psalm 119:120; Job 31:23; Psalm 77:3; Job 10:15; Job 23:3
  15. 16 Psalm 22:14; Job 27:2; Isaiah 6:5; Psalm 88:16; Deuteronomy 20:3
  16. 17 Job 19:8; Isaiah 57:1; 2 Kings 22:20; Job 18:6; Job 22:11

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 23:8 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book X, Chapters XXIII–XXVIII)

    Place there is none; we go both "backward" and "forward," and there is no place.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)