#### Job 23

Verses : {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7} {8} {9} {10} {11} {12} {13} {14} {15} {16} {17}

^ Jb 23.1: Then Job answered and said,
^ Jb 23.2: Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
^ Jb 23.3: Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat!
^ Jb 23.4: I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
^ Jb 23.5: I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
^ Jb 23.6: Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in me.
^ Jb 23.7: There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
^ Jb 23.8: Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there]; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
^ Jb 23.9: 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]:
^ Jb 23.10: But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
^ Jb 23.11: My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
^ Jb 23.12: Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food].
^ Jb 23.13: But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth.
^ Jb 23.14: For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things are] with him.
^ Jb 23.15: Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
^ Jb 23.16: For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
^ Jb 23.17: Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.