Job 23:1 – 23:17

  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.