Job 23
Where Is God?
23Then Job answered and said,
2“Even today my amusing is rebellion;1His hand is bheavy despite my groaning.3“Oh that I knew where I might find Him,That I might come to His seat!4“I would aarrange my case for justice before HimAnd fill my mouth with arguments.5“I would know the words which He would 1answer,And discern what He would say to me.6“Would He contend with me by athe greatness of His power?No, surely He would pay attention to me.7“There the upright would aargue with Him;And I 1would have bescaped forever from my Judge.8“Behold, I go forward but He is not there,And backward, but I acannot discern Him;9When He acts on the left, I cannot behold Him;He turns on the right, I cannot see Him.10“But He knows the 1way I take;When He has atested me, I shall come forth as gold.11“My foot has aheld fast to His path;I have kept His way and not turned aside.12“I have not departed from the command of His lips;I have treasured the awords of His mouth 1more than my 2portion of food.13“But He is unique and who can turn Him?And what His soul desires, that He does.14“For He performs what is apportioned for me,And many such decrees are with Him.15“Therefore, I would be dismayed at His presence;I carefully consider, and I am in dread of Him.16“It is God who has made my aheart faint,And the Almighty who has dismayed me,17But I aam not silenced by the darkness,Nor bthick darkness which covers me.