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Job 23

1 Job answered:

1 Then Job answered and said:

2 Today my complaint is again bitter; my strength is weighed down because of my groaning.

2 "Even today my complaint is bitter; My hand is listless because of my groaning.

3 Oh, that I could know how to find him— come to his dwelling place;

3 Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, That I might come to His seat!

4 I would lay out my case before him, fill my mouth with arguments,

4 I would present my case before Him, And fill my mouth with arguments

5 know the words with which he would answer, understand what he would say to me.

5 I would know the words which He would answer me, And understand what He would say to me.

6 Would he contend with me through brute force? No, he would surely listen to me.

6 Would He contend with me in His great power? No! But He would take note of me.

7 There those who do the right thing can argue with him; I could escape from my judge forever.

7 There the upright could reason with Him, And I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

8 Look, I go east; he's not there, west, and don't discover him;

8 "Look, I go forward, but He is not there, And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;

9 north in his activity, and I don't grasp him; he turns south, and I don't see.

9 When He works on the left hand, I cannot behold Him; When He turns to the right hand, I cannot see Him.

10 Surely he knows my way; when he tests me, I will emerge as gold.

10 But He knows the way that I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

11 My feet have stayed right in his tracks. I have kept his way and not left it,

11 My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside.

12 kept the commandments from his lips and not departed, valued the words from his mouth more than my food.

12 I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth More than my necessary food.

13 He is of one mind; who can reverse it? What he desires, he does.

13 "But He is unique, and who can make Him change? And whatever His soul desires, that He does.

14 He carries out what is decreed for me and can do many similar things with me.

14 For He performs what is appointed for me, And many such things are with Him

15 Therefore, I am scared by his presence; I think and become afraid of him.

15 Therefore I am terrified at His presence; When I consider this, I am afraid of Him.

16 God has weakened my mind; the Almighty has frightened me.

16 For God made my heart weak, And the Almighty terrifies me;

17 Still I'm not annihilated by darkness; he has hidden deep darkness from me.

17 Because I was not cut off from the presence of darkness, And He did not hide deep darkness from my face.