Job Replies: Where Is God?

Job 23:1  Then Job answered and said, 

Job 23:2  Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 

Job 23:3  Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! 

Job 23:4  I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 

Job 23:5  I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. 

Job 23:6  Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. 

Job 23:7  There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. 

Job 23:8  Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: 

Job 23:9  On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: 

Job 23:10  But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. 

Job 23:11  My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. 

Job 23:12  Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. 

Job 23:13  But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. 

Job 23:14  For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. 

Job 23:15  Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. 

Job 23:16  For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: 

Job 23:17  Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. 

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