Job 23
About Job Job wrestles with why the righteous suffer, through Job's losses, his friends' arguments and God's answer.
1Then Job answered and said,SelectedJob 23:1Ask
2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.SelectedJob 23:2Ask
3Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!SelectedJob 23:3Ask
4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.SelectedJob 23:4Ask
5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.SelectedJob 23:5Ask
6Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.SelectedJob 23:6Ask
7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.SelectedJob 23:7Ask
8Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:SelectedJob 23:8Ask
9On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:SelectedJob 23:9Ask
10But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.SelectedJob 23:10Ask
11My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.SelectedJob 23:11Ask
12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.SelectedJob 23:12Ask
13But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.SelectedJob 23:13Ask
14For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.SelectedJob 23:14Ask
15Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.SelectedJob 23:15Ask
16For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:SelectedJob 23:16Ask
17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.SelectedJob 23:17Ask
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