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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Job replied: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Even today my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling! |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I would state my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I would find out what he would answer me, and consider what he would say to me. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Would he vigorously oppose me? No, he would not press charges against me. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7There the upright can establish their innocence before him, and there I would be delivered forever from my judge. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"But if I go to the east, he is not there; if I go to the west, I do not find him. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9When he is at work in the north, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning 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 bread. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? He does whatever he pleases. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14He carries out his decree against me, and many such plans he still has in store. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15That is why I am terrified before him; when I think of all 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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