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Iob 23 - King James 1611 bible

Iob 23

¹Then Iob answered, and said,

²Euen to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heauier then my groning.

³O that I knewe where I might find him! that I might come euen to his seate!

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

⁵I would know the words which he would answere me, and vnderstand what he would say vnto me.

⁶Will he plead against me with his great power? No, but hee would put strength in me.

⁷There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.

⁸Behold, I goe forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceiue him:

⁹On the left hand where hee doeth worke, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himselfe on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

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

¹¹My foot hath held his steps, his way haue I kept, and not declined.

¹²Neither haue I gone backe from the commaundement of his lippes, I haue esteemed the words of his mouth more then my necessary food.

¹³But hee is in one minde, and who can turne him? and what his soule desireth, euen that he doeth.

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

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

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

¹⁷Because I was not cut off before the darknes, neither hath he couered the darknes from my face.