Job 23

1 Job 23:1 Then Job replied,

2 Job 23:2 “Even today my complaint is rebellion; His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

3 Job 23:3 “Oh that I knew where I might find Him, That I might come to His seat!

4 Job 23:4 “I would present my case before Him And fill my mouth with arguments.

5 Job 23:5 “I would learn the words which He would answer, And perceive what He would say to me.

6 Job 23:6 “Would He contend with me by the greatness of His power? No, surely He would pay attention to me.

7 Job 23:7 “There the upright would reason with Him; And I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

8 Job 23:8 “Behold, I go forward but He is not there, And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;

9 Job 23:9 When He acts on the left, I cannot behold Him; He turns on the right, I cannot see Him.

10 Job 23:10 “But He knows the way I take; When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

11 Job 23:11 “My foot has held fast to His path; I have kept His way and not turned aside.

12 Job 23:12 “I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.

13 Job 23:13 “But He is unique and who can turn Him? And what His soul desires, that He does.

14 Job 23:14 “For He performs what is appointed for me, And many such decrees are with Him.

15 Job 23:15 “Therefore, I would be dismayed at His presence; When I consider, I am terrified of Him.

16 Job 23:16 “It is God who has made my heart faint, And the Almighty who has dismayed me,

17 Job 23:17 But I am not silenced by the darkness, Nor deep gloom which covers me.