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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Job answered: |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face. |
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