(1) Then Job answered and said, (2) Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning (3) Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat! (4) I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. (5) I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. (6) Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in me. (7) There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. (8) Behold, I go forward , but he [is] not [there;] and backward, but I cannot perceive 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:] (10) But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold (11) My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. (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] (13) But he [is] in one [mind,] and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desireth , even [that] he doeth. (14) For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things are] with him. (15) Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. (16) For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: (17) Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.
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