Job 23 — ILT

23Verse 1Then answered Job, and said,^{Verse 2}Even now is my complaint bitter: my suffering is heavier than my groans.^{Verse 3}Oh who would grant that I knew where I might find him! that I might attain to his Judgment throne!^{Verse 4}I would put in order before him my cause, and my mouth would I fill with arguments.^{Verse 5}I should know the words which he might answer me, and understand what he might say unto me.^{Verse 6}Would he with his power contend against me? he would truly not lay such doings to my charge.^{Verse 7}There would an upright one argue with him; and I should be allowed to escape for ever by my judge.^{Verse 8}But, lo, I go eastward—and he is not there; and to the west— and I cannot perceive him;^{Verse 9}When he doth great things at the north, I behold him not; he hideth himself in the south—and I see him not.^{Verse 10}But he knoweth the way that I take: were he to probe me, I should come forth as gold.^{Verse 11}On his steps my foot hath held fast: his way have I kept, and swerved not.^{Verse 12}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.^{Verse 13}But he is unchangeably one, and who can turn him? And what his will desireth, even that he doth.^{Verse 14}For he will bring to completion what hath been destined for me: and like these hath he many other things with him.^{Verse 15}Therefore am I terrified at his presence: I will reflect, and be in dread of him.^{Verse 16}Still God hath made timid my heart, and the Almighty hath terrified me;^{Verse 17}Because I was not destroyed before this darkness, and because he hath not hidden from my face [this] gloom.