Job:23

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

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