Job 23
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| 1 | Then Iob answered, and said, |
| 2 | Euen to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heauier then my groning. |
| 3 | O that I knewe where I might find him! that I might come euen to his seate! |
| 4 | I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. |
| 5 | I would know the words which he would answere me, and vnderstand what he would say vnto me. |
| 6 | Will he plead against me with his great power? No, but hee would put strength in me. |
| 7 | There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be deliuered for euer from my Iudge. |
| 8 | Behold, I goe forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceiue him: |
| 9 | On the left hand where hee doeth worke, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himselfe on the right hand, that I cannot see him. |
| 10 | But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. |
| 11 | My foot hath held his steps, his way haue I kept, and not declined. |
| 12 | Neither haue I gone backe from the commaundement of his lippes, I haue esteemed the words of his mouth more then my necessary food. |
| 13 | But hee is in one minde, and who can turne him? and what his soule desireth, euen that he doeth. |
| 14 | For he performeth the thing that is appointed for mee: and many such things are with him. |
| 15 | Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. |
| 16 | For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: |
| 17 | Because I was not cut off before the darknes, neither hath he couered the darknes from my face. |