Job 23
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- 1Then Job answered and said,
- 2"Even today my complaint is bitter; my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
- 3If only I knew where I might find him! If only I could come to his seat!
- 4I would lay out my cause before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
- 5I would know the words he would answer me with, and understand what he would say to me.
- 6Would he contend against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me.
- 7There the righteous might dispute with him, so should I be delivered forever from my judge.
- 8Look, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him.
- 9On the left hand, where he works, but I cannot see him; he hides himself on the right hand, so that I cannot see him.
- 10But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
- 11My foot has held to his steps; his way I have kept, and not turned aside.
- 12I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
- 13But he is of one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desires, that he does.
- 14For he performs the thing that is appointed for me, and many such things are with him.
- 15Therefore I am troubled at his presence; when I consider, I am afraid of him.
- 16For God makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me;
- 17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.