New Revised Standard Version
“If I go forward, he is not there; or backward, I cannot perceive him;

Contemporary English Version
I cannot find God anywhere--in front or back of me,

New American Bible
But if I go east, he is not there; or west, I cannot perceive him;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I shall not understand him.

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

Job 9:11 If he come to me, I shall not see him: if he depart, I shall not understand.

Psalm 10:1 Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us in our wants, in the time of trouble?

Psalm 13:1-3 Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me? . . .

Isaiah 45:15 Verily thou art a hidden God, the God of Israel the saviour.

1 Timothy 6:16 Who only hath immortality and inhabiteth light inaccessible: whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. Amen.