23Job 23

1Then Job answered and said,Select Job 23:1

2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.Select Job 23:2

3Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!Select Job 23:3

4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.Select Job 23:4

5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.Select Job 23:5

6Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.Select Job 23:6

7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.Select Job 23:7

8Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:Select Job 23:8

9On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him: he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:Select Job 23:9

10But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.Select Job 23:10

11My foot has held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.Select Job 23:11

12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.Select Job 23:12

13But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.Select Job 23:13

14For he performs the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.Select Job 23:14

15Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.Select Job 23:15

16For God makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me:Select Job 23:16

17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face.Select Job 23:17