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Job
Explores the themes of suffering and faith through the story of Job, a man tested by losing everything.
Chapter 23
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1
KJV:
Then Job answered and said,
Geneva:
Bvt Iob answered and sayd,
2
KJV:
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Geneva:
Though my talke be this day in bitternes, and my plague greater then my groning,
3
KJV:
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Geneva:
Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.
4
KJV:
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Geneva:
I would pleade the cause before him, & fill my mouth with arguments.
5
KJV:
I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
Geneva:
I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, & would vnderstand what he would say vnto me.
6
KJV:
Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
Geneva:
Would he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me.
7
KJV:
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
Geneva:
There the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.
8
KJV:
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Geneva:
Behold, if I go to the East, he is not there: if to the West, yet I can not perceiue him:
9
KJV:
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
Geneva:
If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him.
10
KJV:
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Geneva:
But he knoweth my way, & trieth mee, and I shal come forth like the gold.
11
KJV:
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
Geneva:
My foote hath followed his steps: his way haue I kept, and haue not declined.
12
KJV:
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Geneva:
Neyther haue I departed from the commandement of his lippes, and I haue esteemed the words of his mouth more then mine appointed foode.
13
KJV:
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Geneva:
Yet he is in one minde, & who can turne him? yea, he doeth what his minde desireth.
14
KJV:
For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
Geneva:
For he will performe that, which is decreed of me, and many such things are with him.
15
KJV:
Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
Geneva:
Therefore I am troubled at his presence, & in considering it, I am afraid of him.
16
KJV:
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Geneva:
For God hath softened mine heart, & the Almightie hath troubled me.
17
KJV:
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
Geneva:
For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.
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