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Job 23

1 Then Job replied:

1 Job answered:

2 “Even today my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

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

3 If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling!

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

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

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

5 I would find out what he would answer me, and consider what he would say to me.

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

6 Would he vigorously oppose me? No, he would not press charges against me.

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

7 There the upright can establish their innocence before him, and there I would be delivered forever from my judge.

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

8 “But if I go to the east, he is not there; if I go to the west, I do not find him.

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

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

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

10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

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

11 My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning aside.

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

12 I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.

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

13 “But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? He does whatever he pleases.

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

14 He carries out his decree against me, and many such plans he still has in store.

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

15 That is why I am terrified before him; when I think of all this, I fear him.

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

16 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

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

17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

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