| 23:1 | 約伯回答說、 | Then Job answered and said, |
| 23:2 | 如今我的哀告還算為悖逆.我的責罰比我的唉哼還重。 | Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. |
| 23:3 | 惟願我能知道在那裏可以尋見 神、能到他的臺前. | Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! |
| 23:4 | 我就在他面前將我的案件陳明、滿口辯白。 | I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. |
| 23:5 | 我必知道他回答我的言語、明白他向我所說的話。 | I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. |
| 23:6 | 他豈用大能與我爭辯麼.必不這樣.他必理會我。 | Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. |
| 23:7 | 在他那裏正直人可以與他辯論.這樣、我必永遠脫離那審判我的。 | There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. |
| 23:8 | 只是我往前行、他不在那裏.往後退、也不能見他。 | Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: |
| 23:9 | 他在左邊行事、我卻不能看見.在右邊隱藏、我也不能見他。 | 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: |
| 23:10 | 然而他知道我所行的路、他試煉我之後、我必如精金。 | But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. |
| 23:11 | 我腳追隨他的步履.我謹守他的道、並不偏離。 | My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. |
| 23:12 | 他嘴唇的命令、我未曾背棄.我看重他口中的言語、過於我需用的飲食。 | Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. |
| 23:13 | 只是他心志已定、誰能使他轉意呢.他心裏所願的、就行出來。 | But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. |
| 23:14 | 他向我所定的、就必作成.這類的事他還有許多。 | For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. |
| 23:15 | 所以我在他面前驚惶、我思念這事、便懼怕他。 | Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. |
| 23:16 | 神使我喪膽、全能者使我驚惶。 | For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: |
| 23:17 | 我的恐懼、不是因為黑暗、也不是因為幽暗蒙蔽我的臉。 | Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. |