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23:1  And Job answered and said,
23:2  Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
23:3  Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat!
23:4  I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;
23:5  I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
23:6  Would he plead against me with his great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.
23:7  There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge.
23:8  Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;
23:9  On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold him not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see him not.
23:10  But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.
23:11  My foot hath held 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 laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.
23:13  But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do.
23:14  For he will perform what is appointed for me; and many such things are with him.
23:15  Therefore am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him.
23:16  For �God hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;
23:17  Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.