| 23:1 | 约伯回答说、 | Then Job answered and said, |
| 23:2 | 如今我的哀告还算为悖逆.我的责罚比我的唉哼还重。 | Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. |
| 23:3 | 惟愿我能知道在那里可以寻见 神、能到他的台前. | Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! |
| 23:4 | 我就在他面前将我的案件陈明、满口辩白。 | 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语、明白他向我所说的话。 | I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. |
| 23:6 | 他岂用大能与我争辩么.必不这样.他必理会我。 | Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. |
| 23:7 | 在他那里正直人可以与他辩论.这样、我必永远脱离那审判我的。 | 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、他不在那里.往后退、也不能见他。 | Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: |
| 23:9 | 他在左边行事、我却不能看见.在右边隐藏、我也不能见他。 | 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、他试炼我之后、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 | 我脚追随他的步履.我谨守他的道、并不偏离。 | My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. |
| 23:12 | 他嘴唇的命令、我未曾背弃.我看重他口中的言语、过于我需用的饮食。 | 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、谁能使他转意呢.他心里所愿的、就行出来。 | 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.这类的事他还有许多。 | For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. |
| 23:15 | 所以我在他面前惊惶、我思念这事、便惧怕他。 | Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. |
| 23:16 | 神使我丧胆、全能者使我惊惶。 | For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: |
| 23:17 | 我的恐惧、不是因为黑暗、也不是因为幽暗蒙蔽我的脸。 | Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. |