Job 23 · Clearspring

Job Longs for God

¹Then Job answered and said,+ ²Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.+ ³Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!+ ⁴I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.+ ⁵I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.+ ⁶Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.+ ⁷There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.+ ⁸Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:+ ⁹On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:+ ¹⁰But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.+ ¹¹My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.+ ¹²Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.+ ¹³But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.+ ¹⁴For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.+ ¹⁵Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.+ ¹⁶For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:+ ¹⁷Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.+

Job Longs for God

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