8“Behold, I go forward but He is not there,
         And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;

9When He acts on the left, I cannot behold Him;
         He turns on the right, I cannot see Him.

10“But He knows the way I take;
         When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

11“My foot has held fast to His path;
         I have kept His way and not turned aside.

12“I have not departed from the command of His lips;
         I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.

13“But He is unique and who can turn Him?
         And what His soul desires, that He does.

14“For He performs what is appointed for me,
         And many such decrees are with Him.

15“Therefore, I would be dismayed at His presence;
         When I consider, I am terrified of Him.

16“It is God who has made my heart faint,
         And the Almighty who has dismayed me,

17But I am not silenced by the darkness,
         Nor deep gloom which covers me.

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