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Job 23

1 Then Job answered and said:

1 Then Job replied [to his friends],

2 "Even today is my complaint bitter; my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

2 "My complaint is bitter again today. I try hard to control my sighing.

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

3 "If only I knew where I could find God! I would go where he lives.

4 I would place my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments

4 I would present [my] case to him. I would have a mouthful of arguments.

5 I would know the words which He would answer me, and understand what He would say unto me.

5 I want to know the words he would use to answer me. I want to understand the things he would say to me.

6 Will He plead against me with His great power? No, but He would put strength in me.

6 Would he sue me and hide behind great legal maneuvers? No, he certainly would press charges against me.

7 There the righteous might dispute with Him; so should I be delivered for ever from my Judge.

7 Then decent people could argue with him, and I would escape my judgment forever.

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

8 However, if I go east, he isn't there. If I go west, I can't find him.

9 on the left hand where He doth work, but I cannot behold Him; He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see Him.

9 If I go northward, where he is at work, I can't observe him. If I turn southward, I can't see him.

10 But He knoweth the way that I take; when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

10 [I can't find him] because he knows the road I take. When he tests me, I'll come out as pure as gold.

11 My foot hath held His steps; His way have I kept, and not declined.

11 I have followed his footsteps closely. I have stayed on his path and did not turn from it.

12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have esteemed the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.

12 I have not left his commands behind. I have treasured his words in my heart.

13 But He is of one mind, and who can turn Him? And what His soul desireth, even that He doeth.

13 "But God is one of a kind. Who can make him change his mind? He does whatever he wants!

14 For He performeth the thing that is appointed for me; and many such things are with Him

14 He will carry out [his] orders concerning me as he does with so many other things.

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

15 That is why I'm terrified of him. When I think of it, I'm afraid of him.

16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;

16 God has discouraged me. The Almighty has filled me with terror.

17 because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath He covered the darkness from my face.

17 But I am not silenced by the dark or by the thick darkness that covers my face.