Job 23

Berean Standard Bible

Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)

1Then Job answered:

1Then Job answered, and said:

2“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

2Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.

3If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

3Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?

4I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.

4I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.

5I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.

5That I might know the words that he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

6Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.

6I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness.

7Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

7Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.

8If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.

8But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I shall not understand him.

9When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him.

9If to the left hand, what shall I do? I shall not take hold on him: if I turn myself to the right hand, I shall not see him.

10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

10But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:

11My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.

11My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it.

12I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

12I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

13But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.

13For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever is soul hath desired, that hath he done.

14For He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.

14And when he shall have fulfilled his will in me, many other like things are also at hand with him.

15Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.

15And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider him I am made pensive with fear.

16God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

16God hath softened my heart, and the Almighty hath troubled me.

17Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

17For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist covered my face.

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