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23:1  Then Job answered and said:
23:2  “Even today 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 even to His seat!
23:4  I would place 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 dispute with Him; so should I be delivered for ever 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 doth work, but I cannot behold Him; He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see Him.
23:10  But He knoweth the way that I take; when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
23:11  My foot hath held His steps; His way have I kept, and not declined.
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 desireth, even that He doeth.
23:14  For He performeth 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 maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;
23:17  because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath He covered the darkness from my face.