Ayub 23

Ayub 23

Job 23

Ayub ingin membela diri di hadapan Allah 23:1 Tetapi Ayub menjawab: 23:2 "Sekarang ini keluh kesahku menjadi pemberontakan, tangan-Nya menekan aku, sehingga aku mengaduh. 23:3 Ah, semoga aku tahu mendapatkan Dia, dan boleh datang ke tempat Ia bersemayam. 23:4 Maka akan kupaparkan perkaraku di hadapan-Nya, dan kupenuhi mulutku dengan kata-kata pembelaan. 23:5 Maka aku akan mengetahui jawaban-jawaban yang diberikan-Nya kepadaku dan aku akan mengerti, apa yang difirmankan-Nya kepadaku. 23:6 Sudikah Ia mengadakan perkara dengan aku dalam kemahakuasaan-Nya? Tidak, Ia akan menaruh perhatian kepadaku. 23:7 Orang jujurlah yang akan membela diri di hadapan-Nya, dan aku akan bebas dari Hakimku untuk selama-lamanya. 23:8 Sesungguhnya, kalau aku berjalan ke timur, Ia tidak di sana; atau ke barat, tidak kudapati Dia; 23:9 di utara kucari Dia, Ia tidak tampak, aku berpaling ke selatan, aku tidak melihat Dia. 23:10 Karena Ia tahu jalan hidupku; seandainya Ia menguji aku, aku akan timbul seperti emas. 23:11 Kakiku tetap mengikuti jejak-Nya, aku menuruti jalan-Nya dan tidak menyimpang. 23:12 Perintah dari bibir-Nya tidak kulanggar, dalam sanubariku kusimpan ucapan mulut-Nya. 23:13 Tetapi Ia tidak pernah berubah -- siapa dapat menghalangi Dia? Apa yang dikehendaki-Nya, dilaksanakan-Nya juga. 23:14 Karena Ia akan menyelesaikan apa yang ditetapkan atasku, dan banyak lagi hal yang serupa itu dimaksudkan-Nya. 23:15 Itulah sebabnya hatiku gemetar menghadapi Dia, kalau semuanya itu kubayangkan, maka aku ketakutan terhadap Dia. 23:16 Allah telah membuat aku putus asa, Yang Mahakuasa telah membuat hatiku gemetar; 23:17 sebab bukan karena kegelapan aku binasa, dan bukan juga karena mukaku ditutupi gelap gulita."

23:1 Then Job answered and said:
23:2 "Even today my complaint is bitter; My hand is listless because of my groaning.
23:3 Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, [That] I might come to His seat!
23:4 I would present [my] case before Him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
23:5 I would know the words [which] He would answer me, And understand what He would say to me.
23:6 Would He contend with me in His great power? No! But He would take [note] of me.
23:7 There the upright could reason with Him, And I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
23:8 "Look, I go forward, but He is not [there], And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;
23:9 When He works on the left hand, I cannot behold [Him]; When He turns to the right hand, I cannot see [Him].
23:10 But He knows the way that I take; [When] He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
23:11 My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside.
23:12 I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth More than my necessary [food].
23:13 "But He [is] unique, and who can make Him change? And [whatever] His soul desires, [that] He does.
23:14 For He performs [what is] appointed for me, And many such [things are] with Him.
23:15 Therefore I am terrified at His presence; When I consider [this], I am afraid of Him.
23:16 For God made my heart weak, And the Almighty terrifies me;
23:17 Because I was not cut off from the presence of darkness, And He did [not] hide deep darkness from my face.

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