Job 23

¹And Job answers and says:

²“Also—today my complaint is bitter, My hand has been heavy because of my sighing.

³O that I had known—and I find Him, I come to His seat,

⁴I arrange the cause before Him, And fill my mouth with arguments.

⁵I know the words He answers me, And understand what He says to me.

⁶Does He strive with me in the abundance of power? No! Surely He puts it in me.

⁷There the upright reason with Him, And I escape from mine who is judging—forever.

⁸Behold, I go forward—and He is not, And backward—and I do not perceive Him.

⁹To the left in His working—and I do not see, He is covered on the right, and I do not behold.

¹⁰For He has known the way with me, He has tried me—I go forth as gold.

¹¹My foot has laid hold on His step, I have kept His way, and do not turn aside,

¹²The command of His lips, and I do not depart. I have laid up above my allotted portion The sayings of His mouth.

¹³And He is in one mind, And who turns Him back? And His soul has desired—and He does it.

¹⁴For He completes my portion, And many such things are with Him.

¹⁵Therefore, I am troubled at His presence, I consider, and am afraid of Him.

¹⁶And God has made my heart soft, And the Mighty has troubled me.

¹⁷For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.”

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