¹Then Job answered and said,

¹A Job odpovedal a riekol:

²Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

²Ešte i dnes bude moje úpenie spúrou! Môj údel strádania je ťažší nad moje vzdychanie.

³Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

³Oj, aby som vedel, kde by som ho našiel! Išiel by som až pred jeho prestol.

⁴I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

⁴Predložil by som pred neho súd a svoje ústa by som naplnil dôkazmi.

⁵I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

⁵Chcel by som zvedieť slová, ktorými by mi odpovedal, a porozumieť tomu, čo by mi riekol.

⁶Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

⁶Či by sa pravotil so mnou vo svojej veľkej sile? Nie to, ale by ma pozorne vypočul.

⁷There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

⁷Tam by sa pravotil s ním priamy človek spravedlivý, a navždy by som uniknul svojmu sudcovi.

⁸Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

⁸Ale hľa, keď pojdem napred, neni ho, a keď nazad, nespozorujem ho.

⁹On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

⁹naľavo, ak robí niečo, neuvidím ho; ak zahne napravo, neuzriem ho.

¹⁰But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

¹⁰Lebo zná, jaká je cesta u mňa; keď ma bude zkúšať, vyjdem ako zlato.

¹¹My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

¹¹Moja noha sa držala jeho kroku; ostríhal som jeho cestu a neodchýlil som sa

¹²Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

¹²ani som neuhnul od prikázania jeho rtov; nad svoj stanovený diel pokrmu som schoval reči jeho úst.

¹³But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

¹³Ale keď on trvá na jednom, ktože ho odvráti? A keď si zažiada niečo jeho duša, aj to učiní.

¹⁴For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

¹⁴A istotne vykoná i to, čo ustanovil o mne. A podobných vecí je mnoho pri ňom.

¹⁵Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

¹⁵Preto sa desím jeho tvári, keď premýšľam o tom, strachujem sa pred ním.

¹⁶For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

¹⁶A silný Bôh zmalátnil moje srdce, a Všemohúci ma predesil.

¹⁷Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

¹⁷Oj, že nie som zničený od tmy! A bol by tak ukryl predo mnou mrákotu.