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23:1  Then Job answered and said,
23:2  Even today is my complaint bitter: my hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
23:3  Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
23:4  I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
23:5  I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
23:6  Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
23:7  There the righteous might reason with him; so should I be delivered forever from my judge.
23:8  Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
23:9  On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him: he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
23:10  But he knows the way that I take: when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
23:11  My foot has held fast to his steps, his way have I kept, and not turned aside.
23:12  Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
23:13  But he is of one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.
23:14  For he performs the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
23:15  Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
23:16  For God makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me:
23:17  Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face.