Darby's English Translation

Job 22

The Book of Job

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Chapter 23

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 And Job answered and said, 

 


2

 

 Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 

 


3

 

 Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat! 

 


4

 

 I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments; 

 


5

 

 I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. 

 


6

 

 Would he plead against me with [his] great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me. 

 


7

 

 There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge. 

 


8

 

 Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him; 

 


9

 

 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold [him] not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see [him] not. 

 


10

 

 But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold. 

 


11

 

 My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside. 

 


12

 

 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart. 

 


13

 

 But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do. 

 


14

 

 For he will perform [what] is appointed for me; and many such things are with him. 

 


15

 

 Therefore am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him. 

 


16

 

 For łGod hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me; 

 


17

 

 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me. 

 


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