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23:1 Then Job answered and said,
23:2 “Even today my musing is rebellion; His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find Him, That I might come to His seat!
23:4 I would arrange my case for justice before Him And fill my mouth with arguments.
23:5 I would know the words which He would answer, And discern what He would say to me.
23:6 Would He contend with me by the greatness of His power? No, surely He would pay attention to me.
23:7 There the upright would argue with Him; And I would have escaped forever from my Judge.
23:8 “Behold, I go forward but He is not there, And backward, but I cannot discern Him;
23:9 When He acts on the left, I cannot behold Him; He turns on the right, I cannot see Him.
23:10 But He knows the way I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
23:11 My foot has held fast to His path; I have kept His way and not turned aside.
23:12 I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion of food.
23:13 But He is unique and who can turn Him? And what His soul desires, that He does.
23:14 For He performs what is apportioned for me, And many such decrees are with Him.
23:15 Therefore, I would be dismayed at His presence; I carefully consider, and I am in dread of Him.
23:16 It is God who has made my heart faint, And the Almighty who has dismayed me,
23:17 But I am not silenced by the darkness, Nor thick darkness which covers me.