Job - Chapter 23 - King James Version
- Then Job answered and said,
- Even to dayismy complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
- Oh that I knew where I might find him!thatI might comeevento his seat!
- I would ordermycause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
- I would know the wordswhichhe would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
- Will he plead against me withhisgreat power? No; but he would putstrengthin me.
- There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
- Behold, I go forward, but heisnotthere;and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
- On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot beholdhim:he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot seehim:
- But he knoweth the way that I take:whenhe hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
- My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
- Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessaryfood.
- But heisin onemind, and who can turn him? andwhathis soul desireth, eventhathe doeth.
- For he performeththe thing that isappointed for me: and many suchthings arewith him.
- Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
- For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
- Because I was not cut off before the darkness,neitherhath he covered the darkness from my face.