Job Chapter 23

23 : 1 Then Job answered and said,

23 : 2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

23 : 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

23 : 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

23 : 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

23 : 6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

23 : 7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

23 : 8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

23 : 9 On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him: he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

23 : 10 But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

23 : 11 My foot has held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

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.

23 : 13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.

23 : 14 For he performes the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

23 : 15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

23 : 16 For God makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me:

23 : 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face.