Job 23

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        Job 23
      
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        <b>1.  Then Job answered and said,</b>
      
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         2.  Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
      
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        3.  Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
      
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         4.  I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
      
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         5.  I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say 
        unto me.
      
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         6.  Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
      
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         7.  There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my 
        judge.
      
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        8.  Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
      
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         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:
      
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        10.  But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
      
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         11.  My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
      
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         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.
      
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        13.  But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he 
        doeth.
      
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         14.  For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with 
        him.
      
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         15.  Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
      
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         16.  For God maketh my heart soft, and the almighty troubleth me:
      
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         17.  Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness 
        from my face.
      
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