23:2 Today my complaint is again bitter; my strength is weighed down because of my groaning.
23:3 Oh, that I could know how to find him— come to his dwelling place;
23:4 I would lay out my case before him, fill my mouth with arguments,
23:5 know the words with which he would answer, understand what he would say to me.
23:6 Would he contend with me through brute force? No, he would surely listen to me.
23:7 There those who do the right thing can argue with him; I could escape from my judge forever.
23:8 Look, I go east; he’s not there, west, and don’t discover him;
23:9 north in his activity, and I don’t grasp him; he turns south, and I don’t see.
23:10 Surely he knows my way; when he tests me, I will emerge as gold.
23:11 My feet have stayed right in his tracks. I have kept his way and not left it,
23:12 kept the commandments from his lips and not departed, valued the words from his mouth more than my food.
23:13 He is of one mind; who can reverse it? What he desires, he does.
23:14 He carries out what is decreed for me and can do many similar things with me.
23:15 Therefore, I am scared by his presence; I think and become afraid of him.
23:16 God has weakened my mind; the Almighty has frightened me.
23:17 Still I’m not annihilated by darkness; he has hidden deep darkness from me.
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