Job 23
Reading Job chapter 23 in the Young's Literal Translation, public-domain text from 1898.
Verses 1–10
1 And Job answereth and saith: --
2 Also--to-day is my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.
3 O that I had known--and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,
4 I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill with arguments.
5 I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.
6 In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth it in me.
7 There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.
8 Lo, forward I go--and He is not, And backward--and I perceive him not.
9 To the left in His working--and I see not, He is covered on the right, and I behold not.
10 For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me--as gold I go forth.
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