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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Job answered: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Today also my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3If only I knew how to find him, so that I could go to his throne. |
| 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 me; and understand what he would say to me. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Would he prosecute me forcefully? No, he would certainly pay attention to me. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then an upright man could reason with him, and I would escape from my Judge forever. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8If I go east, he is not there, and if I go west, I cannot perceive him. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9When he is at work to the north, I cannot see him; when he turns south, I cannot find him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Yet he knows the way I have taken; when he has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11My feet have followed in his tracks; I have kept to his way and not turned aside. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I have not departed from the commands from his lips; I have treasured the words from his mouth more than my daily food. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But he is unchangeable; who can oppose him? He does what he desires. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14He will certainly accomplish what he has decreed for me, and he has many more things like these in mind. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Therefore I am terrified in his presence; when I consider this, I am afraid of 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 destroyed by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face. |
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