Chapter Text
23:1 Bvt Iob answered and sayd,
23:2 Though my talke be this day in bitternes, and my plague greater then my groning,
23:3 Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place.
23:4 I would pleade the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
23:5 I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, and would vnderstand what he would say vnto me.
23:6 Would he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me.
23:7 There the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.
23:8 Behold, if I go to the East, he is not there: if to the West, yet I can not perceiue him:
23:9 If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him.
23:10 But he knoweth my way, and trieth mee, and I shall come forth like the gold.
23:11 My foote hath followed his steps: his way haue I kept, and haue not declined.
23:12 Neyther haue I departed from the commandement of his lippes, and I haue esteemed the words of his mouth more then mine appointed foode.
23:13 Yet he is in one minde, and who can turne him? yea, he doeth what his minde desireth.
23:14 For he will performe that, which is decreed of me, and many such things are with him.
23:15 Therefore I am troubled at his presence, and in considering it, I am afraid of him.
23:16 For God hath softened mine heart, and the Almightie hath troubled me.
23:17 For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.