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Job 23
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Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
2Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.
3Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
3Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?
4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
4I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.
5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
5That I might know the words that he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.
6Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
6I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness.
7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
7Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.
8Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
8But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I shall not understand him.
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:
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.
10But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
10But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:
11My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
11My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it.
12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
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 in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
13For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done.
14For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
14And when he shall have fulfilled his will in me, many other like things are also at hand with him.
15Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
15And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider him, I am made pensive with fear.