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| 23:1 |
Then Job replied,
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| 23:2 |
"Even today my complaint is rebellion; His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
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| 23:3 |
"Oh that I knew where I might find Him, That I might come to His seat!
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| 23:4 |
"I would present [my] case before Him And fill my mouth with arguments.
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| 23:5 |
"I would learn the words [which] He would answer, And perceive what He would say to me.
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| 23:6 |
"Would He contend with me by the greatness of [His] power? No, surely He would pay attention to me.
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| 23:7 |
"There the upright would reason with Him; And I would be delivered forever from my Judge.
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| 23:8 |
"Behold, I go forward but He is not [there], And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;
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| 23:9 |
When He acts on the left, I cannot behold [Him]; He turns on the right, I cannot see Him.
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| 23:10 |
"But He knows the way I take; [When] He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
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| 23:11 |
"My foot has held fast to His path; I have kept His way and not turned aside.
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| 23:12 |
"I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.
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| 23:13 |
"But He is unique and who can turn Him? And [what] His soul desires, that He does.
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| 23:14 |
"For He performs what is appointed for me, And many such [decrees] are with Him.
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| 23:15 |
"Therefore, I would be dismayed at His presence; [When] I consider, I am terrified of Him.
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| 23:16 |
"[It is] God [who] has made my heart faint, And the Almighty [who] has dismayed me,
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| 23:17 |
But I am not silenced by the darkness, Nor deep gloom [which] covers [me].
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