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23:1  Job confided to his friends.
23:2  Job: So once again you are telling me my complaint amounts to rebellion, that the heavy hand I feel upon me is smothering my groans?
23:3  Would that I knew where to find Him. I would appear before Him.
23:4  I would lay my case out before Him; I would fill up my mouth with arguments.
23:5  And then I would finally learn how He would answer me, and I would understand what He tells me.
23:6  Would He oppose me merely with His great power? Surely not! Surely He would show me the respect of listening to my argument.
23:7  There, in that courtroom, a moral man might hope to reason with Him, and I would escape my Judge forever.
23:8  Alas, wherever I go, ahead or behind, He is not there; I am unable to find Him.
23:9  When He works on either side of me, I still cannot see Him. I catch no glimpse of Him.
23:10  But He knows the course I have traveled. And I believe that were He to prove me, I would come out purer than gold from the fire.
23:11  My foot has been securely set in His tracks; I have kept to His course of life without swerving;
23:12  I have not departed from the commands of His lips; I have valued everything He says more than all else.
23:13  He alone is one True God; who can alter Him? Whatever He desires within Himself, He does.
23:14  For He will carry out exactly what He has planned for me, and in the future there are more plans to come.
23:15  Therefore, I am deeply troubled before Him; when I ponder it at any length, I am terrified of Him.
23:16  Yes, God has melted my courage, and the Highest One has overwhelmed me with His terror.
23:17  He could have turned me aside when the darkness came, but He did not cut me off. Nor does He hide my face from the gloom that has now overtaken me.