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Job_23_01 Then Job answered and said, ~

Job_23_02 Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. ~

Job_23_03 Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat! ~

Job_23_04 I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. ~

Job_23_05 I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. ~

Job_23_06 Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in me. ~

Job_23_07 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. ~

Job_23_08 Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there]; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: ~

Job_23_09 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]: ~

Job_23_10 But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. ~

Job_23_11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. ~

Job_23_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]. ~

Job_23_13 But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth. ~

Job_23_14 For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things are] with him. ~

Job_23_15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. ~

Job_23_16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: ~

Job_23_17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face. ~