Job 23:1-9 ▼

1 Then Job replied [to his friends],

2 |My complaint is bitter again today. I try hard to control my sighing.

3 |If only I knew where I could find God! I would go where he lives.

4 I would present [my] case to him. I would have a mouthful of arguments.

5 I want to know the words he would use to answer me. I want to understand the things he would say to me.

6 Would he sue me and hide behind great legal maneuvers? No, he certainly would press charges against me.

7 Then decent people could argue with him, and I would escape my judgment forever.

8 However, if I go east, he isn't there. If I go west, I can't find him.

9 If I go northward, where he is at work, I can't observe him. If I turn southward, I can't see him.