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