Job 23

1 And Job answered, and said,⋮

2 Now also my word is in bitter-ness, and the hand of my wound is aggrieved on my wailing.⋮

3 Who giveth to me, that I know, and find him, and come unto his throne?⋮

4 I shall set doom before him, and I shall fill my mouth with arguments;⋮

5 that I know the words, which he shall answer to me, and that I under-stand, what he shall speak to me.⋮

6 I will or desire not, that he strive with me by great strength, neither that he oppress me with the heaviness of his greatness.⋮

7 Set he forth equity against me, and my doom come perfectly to victory.⋮

8 If I go to the east, God appeareth not there; if I go to the west, I shall not understand him;⋮

9 if I go to the left side, what shall I do? I shall not take him; if I turn me to the right side, I shall not see him.⋮

10 But he knoweth my way, and he shall prove me as gold, that passeth through the fire.⋮

11 My foot pursued or followed his steps; I kept to his way, and I bowed not away from it.⋮

12 I went not away from the commandments of his lips; and I hid in my bosom the words of his mouth.⋮

13 For he is alone, and no man may turn away his thoughts; and whatever thing he would, his will did this thing.⋮

14 When he hath ful filled his will in me, also many other like things be ready to him.⋮

15 And therefore I am troubled of his face, and I beholding him am anguished for dread.⋮

16 God hath made nesh mine heart, and Almighty God hath troubled me.⋮

17 Certainly I perished not for dark-nesses nighing to me; neither mist covered my face.⋮