Parallel Bible results for "job 23"

Job 23

1 Then Job answered:

1 Then Iyov answered:

2 "My complaint is still bitter today. I groan because God's heavy hand is on me.

2 "Today too my complaint is bitter; my hand is weighed down because of my groaning.

3 I wish I knew where to find God so I could go to where he lives.

3 I wish I knew where I could find him; then I would go to where he is.

4 I would present my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments

4 I would state my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments

5 I would learn how he would answer me and would think about what he would say.

5 I would know his answering words and grasp what he would tell me.

6 Would he not argue strongly against me? No, he would really listen to me.

6 Would he browbeat me with his great power? No, he would pay attention to me.

7 Then an honest person could present his case to God, and I would be saved forever by my judge.

7 There an upright person could reason with him; thus I might be forever acquitted by my judge.

8 "If I go to the east, God is not there; if I go to the west, I do not see him.

8 "If I head east, he isn't there; if I head west, I don't detect him,

9 When he is at work in the north, I catch no sight of him; when he turns to the south, I cannot see him.

9 if I turn north, I don't spot him; in the south he is veiled, and I still don't see him.

10 But God knows the way that I take, and when he has tested me, I will come out like gold.

10 Yet he knows the way I take; when he has tested me, I will come out like gold.

11 My feet have closely followed his steps; I have stayed in his way; I did not turn aside.

11 My feet have stayed in his footsteps; I keep to his way without turning aside.

12 I have never left the commands he has spoken; I have treasured his words more than my own.

12 I don't withdraw from his lips' command; I treasure his words more than my daily food.

13 "But he is the only God. Who can come against him? He does anything he wants.

13 "But he has no equal, so who can change him? What he desires, he does.

14 He will do to me what he said he would do, and he has many plans like this

14 He will accomplish what is decreed for me, and he has many plans like this

15 That is why I am frightened of him; when I think of this, I am afraid of him.

15 This is why I am terrified of him; the more I think about it, the more afraid I am -

16 God has made me afraid; the Almighty terrifies me.

16 God has undermined my courage; Shaddai frightens me.

17 But I am not hidden by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

17 Yet I am not cut off by the darkness; he has protected me from the deepest gloom.