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Job 23 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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and his hand has been made heavy upon my groaning.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end <i>of the matter</i>?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And I would know the remedies which he would speak to me, and I would perceive what he would tell me.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Though he should come on me in <i>his</i> great strength, then he would not threaten me;<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>for truth and reproof are from him; and he would bring forth my judgment to an end.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For if I shall go first, and exist no longer, still what do I know <i>concerning</i> the latter end?<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When he wrought on the left hand, then I observed <i>it</i> not: his right hand shall encompass me but I shall not see <i>it</i>.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For he knows already my way; and he has tried me as gold.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I will go forth according to his commandments, for I have kept his ways; and I shall not turn aside from his commandments,<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>neither shall I transgress; but I have hid his words in my bosom.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And if too he has thus judged, who is he that has contradicted, for he has both willed <i>a thing</i> and done it.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><font color=blue>(OMITTED TEXT)</font><p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=blue>(23:14)</font> Therefore am I troubled at him; and when I was reproved, I thought of him. <font color=blue>(23:15)</font> Therefore let me take good heed before him: I will consider, and be afraid of him.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But the Lord has softened my heart, and the Almighty has troubled me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For I knew not that darkness would come upon me, and thick darkness has covered <i>me</i> before my face.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>