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Then Job answered and said, (23:1)

Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning (23:2)

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

I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments (23:4)

I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me (23:5)

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

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

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

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]: (23:9)

But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold (23:10)

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined (23:11)

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food] (23:12)

But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth (23:13)

For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things are] with him (23:14)

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

For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: (23:16)

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face (23:17)

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