Job23

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(Job 23:1) Then Job answered and said,
(Job 23:2) Even to day {is} my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
(Job 23:3) Oh that I knew where I might find him! {that} I might come {even} to his seat!
(Job 23:4) I would order {my} cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
(Job 23:5) I would know the words {which} he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
(Job 23:6) Will he plead against me with {his} great power? No; but he would put {strength} in me.
(Job 23:7) There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
(Job 23:8) Behold, I go forward, but he {is} not {there}; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
(Job 23:9) 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.
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