Job 23:1
And Job answered and said,
Job 23:2
Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Job 23:3
Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat!
Job 23:4
I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;
Job 23:5
I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
Job 23:6
Would he plead against me with his great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.
Job 23:7
There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge.
Job 23:8
Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;
Job 23:9
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold him not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see him not.
Job 23:10
But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.
Job 23:11
My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.
Job 23:12
Neither 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.
Job 23:13
But he is in one mind , and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do.
Job 23:14
For he will perform what is appointed for me; and many such things are with him.
Job 23:15
Therefore am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him.
Job 23:16
For *God hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;
Job 23:17
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.