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1 | Then Job answered and said, |
2 | Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. |
3 | Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! |
4 | I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. |
5 | I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. |
6 | Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. |
7 | There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. |
8 | Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: |
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: |
10 | But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. |
11 | My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. |
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. |
13 | But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. |
14 | For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. |
15 | Therefore am I troubled at his
presence: when I consider, I am 1afraid of him.
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16 | For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: |
17 | Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. |
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