Job 23
lesserot@Job:23:1 @ Then answered Job, and said,
lesserot@Job:23:2 @ Even now is my complaint bitter: my suffering is heavier than my groans.
lesserot@Job:23:3 @ Oh who would grant that I knew where I might find him! that I might attain to his Judgment throne!
lesserot@Job:23:4 @ I would put in order before him my cause, and my mouth would I fill with arguments.
lesserot@Job:23:5 @ I should know the words which he might answer me, and understand what he might say unto me.
lesserot@Job:23:6 @ Would he with his power contend against me? he would truly not lay such doings to my charge.
lesserot@Job:23:7 @ There would an upright one argue with him; and I should be allowed to escape for ever by my judge.
lesserot@Job:23:8 @ But, lo, I go eastwardand he is not there; and to the west and I cannot perceive him;
lesserot@Job:23:9 @ When he doth great things at the north, I behold him not; he hideth himself in the southand I see him not.
lesserot@Job:23:10 @ But he knoweth the way that I take: were he to probe me, I should come forth as gold.
lesserot@Job:23:11 @ On his steps my foot hath held fast: his way have I kept, and swerved not.
lesserot@Job:23:12 @ From the commandment of his lips have I also not moved away: as a fixed statute for me have I treasured up the sayings of his mouth.
lesserot@Job:23:13 @ But he is unchangeably one, and who can turn him? And what his will desireth, even that he doth.
lesserot@Job:23:14 @ For he will bring to completion what hath been destined for me: and like these hath he many other things with him.
lesserot@Job:23:15 @ Therefore am I terrified at his presence: I will reflect, and be in dread of him.
lesserot@Job:23:16 @ Still God hath made timid my heart, and the Almighty hath terrified me;
lesserot@Job:23:17 @ Because I was not destroyed before this darkness, and because he hath not hidden from my face gloom.