Job 23

¹Then Job answered and said,🔗🔍
²Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.🔗🔍
³Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!🔗🔍
⁴I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.🔗🔍
⁵I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.🔗🔍
⁶Will he plead 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 for ever from my judge.🔗🔍
⁸Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:🔗🔍
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:🔗🔍
¹⁰But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.🔗🔍
¹¹My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.🔗🔍
¹²Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.🔗🔍
¹³But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.🔗🔍
¹⁴For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.🔗🔍
¹⁵Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.🔗🔍
¹⁶For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:🔗🔍
¹⁷Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.🔗🔍