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23:1  I still rebel and complain against God; I cannot keep from groaning.
23:2  I still rebel and complain against God; I cannot keep from groaning.
23:3  How I wish I knew where to find him, and knew how to go where he is.
23:4  I would state my case before him and present all the arguments in my favor.
23:5  I want to know what he would say and how he would answer me.
23:6  Would God use all his strength against me? No, he would listen as I spoke.
23:7  I am honest; I could reason with God; he would declare me innocent once and for all.
23:8  I have searched in the East, but God is not there; I have not found him when I searched in the West.
23:9  God has been at work in the North and the South, but still I have not seen him.
23:10  Yet God knows every step I take; if he tests me, he will find me pure.
23:11  I follow faithfully the road he chooses, and never wander to either side.
23:12  I always do what God commands; I follow his will, not my own desires.
23:13  He never changes. No one can oppose him or stop him from doing what he wants to do.
23:14  He will fulfill what he has planned for me; that plan is just one of the many he has;
23:15  I tremble with fear before him.
23:16  Almighty God has destroyed my courage. It is God, not the dark, that makes me afraid— even though the darkness has made me blind.
23:17  Almighty God has destroyed my courage. It is God, not the dark, that makes me afraid— even though the darkness has made me blind.