¹Then Job answered and said,

¹Y RESPONDIO Job, y dijo:

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

²Hoy también hablaré con amargura; Que es más grave mi llaga que mi gemido.

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

³Quién me diera el saber dónde hallar á Dios! Yo iría hasta su silla.

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

⁴Ordenaría juicio delante de él, Y henchiría mi boca de argumentos.

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

⁵Yo sabría lo que él me respondería, Y entendería lo que me dijese.

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

⁶¿Pleitearía conmigo con grandeza de fuerza? No: antes él la pondría en mí.

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

⁷Allí el justo razonaría con él: Y escaparía para siempre de mi juez.

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

⁸He aquí yo iré al oriente, y no lo hallaré; Y al occidente, y no lo percibiré:

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:

⁹Si al norte él obrare, yo no lo veré; Al mediodía se esconderá, y no lo veré.

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

¹⁰Mas él conoció mi camino: Probaráme, y saldré como oro.

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

¹¹Mis pies tomaron su rastro; Guardé su camino, y no me aparté.

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

¹²Del mandamiento de sus labios nunca me separé; Guardé las palabras de su boca más que mi comida.

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

¹³Empero si él se determina en una cosa, ¿quién lo apartará? Su alma deseó, é hizo.

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

¹⁴El pues acabará lo que ha determinado de mí: Y muchas cosas como estas hay en él.

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

¹⁵Por lo cual yo me espanto en su presencia: Consideraré, y temerélo.

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

¹⁶Dios ha enervado mi corazón, Y hame turbado el Omnipotente.

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

¹⁷¿Por qué no fuí yo cortado delante de las tinieblas, Y cubrió con oscuridad mi rostro?