- 1. ¶ THEN Job answered and said,
- 2. Even today is my complaint bitter; God’s hand is heavier and increases my groaning.
- 3. Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!
- 4. I would lay my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
- 5. I would know what he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
- 6. Would he contend with me with his great power? If he would not, then he will put his fear into me.
- 7. There I might contend justly with him; and I might be justified and acquitted.
- 8. ¶ Behold, if he goes before me, I know not; or behind, I cannot perceive him.
- 9. I seek him on my left hand, but I cannot behold him; then I turn to my right hand, but I cannot see him.
- 10. But it is he who knows my way and my existence, and has tried me like gold, and I came forth pure.
- 11. My feet have held firm to his steps, and I have kept his ways.
- 12. I have not despised the commandments of his lips; neither have I departed from his will, and have kept the words of his mouth.
- 13. ¶ But in return for one of these, what has he granted me? What his soul desires, even that he does.
- 14. But he performs his covenant; and many such things are with him.
- 15. Therefore I am fearful at his presence; when I consider, I am afraid of him.
- 16. For God has troubled my heart, and my mind is confused:
- 17. Because I was not silenced before the darkness, and before the covering of the blackness.
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