¹And Job answered and said,

¹Tetapi Ayub menjawab, "Aku meronta dan mengeluh terhadap Allah; tak dapat aku menahan keluh kesah.

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

²(23:1)

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

³Ah, kiranya kuketahui tempat Ia berada, supaya aku dapat pergi dan bertemu dengan Dia.

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

⁴Maka kepada-Nya perkaraku ini kuhadapkan, dari mulutku berderai kata-kata pembelaan.

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

⁵Aku ingin tahu apa yang akan Ia katakan, dan bagaimana Ia memberi jawaban.

⁶Would he plead against me with [his] great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.

⁶Apakah Ia akan melancarkan kuasa-Nya kepadaku? Tidak! Ia pasti akan mendengarkan kata-kataku.

⁷There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge.

⁷Aku tak bersalah dan dapat membela diri di hadapan-Nya, maka aku akan dinyatakan bebas untuk selama-lamanya.

⁸Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;

⁸Kucari Allah di timur, barat, selatan, utara, tetapi di mana-mana Allah tak ada; dan aku tak dapat menemukan Dia.

⁹On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold [him] not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see [him] not.

⁹(23:8)

¹⁰But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.

¹⁰Namun Dia tahu segala jalanku juga setiap langkahku. Kalau seperti emas aku diuji, akan terbukti bahwa hatiku murni.

¹¹My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.

¹¹Aku taat kepada-Nya dengan setia; tak pernah aku menyimpang dari jalan yang ditentukan-Nya.

¹²Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.

¹²Perintah-perintah Allah selalu kutaati, kehendak-Nya kuikuti, dan bukan keinginanku sendiri.

¹³But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do.

¹³Allah itu tak berubah; tak ada yang dapat melawan Dia. Ia melakukan apa yang dikehendaki-Nya.

¹⁴For he will perform [what] is appointed for me; and many such things are with him.

¹⁴Ia akan menjalankan rencana-Nya bagiku, dan masih banyak lagi rencana-Nya selain itu.

¹⁵Therefore am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him.

¹⁵Karena takut kepada-Nya, gemetarlah aku; semakin semua itu kupikirkan, semakin takutlah aku.

¹⁶For ùGod hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;

¹⁶Yang Mahakuasa menghancurkan segala keberanianku. Aku takut karena Allah, dan bukan karena gelap gulita, meskipun kegelapan itu mengelilingi aku, dan menutupi wajahku.

¹⁷Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.

¹⁷(23:16)