| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 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 will 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 of His lips; I have treasured the words of 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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