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Job

Job 23 📜 📕 ↷

1 BUT Job answering, said:📜💬📚

2 Now also my talk is in bitterness, and the hand of my plague is aggravated upon my mourning.📜💬📚

3 Who will grant me that I may know and find him, & come even to his throne?📜💬📚

4 I will set judgement before him, and will fill my mouth with accusations.📜💬📚

5 That I may know the words that he will answer me, and understand what he will speak to me.📜💬📚

6 I will not that he contend with me with much strength, nor that he oppress me with the weight of his greatness.📜💬📚

7 Let him propose equity against me, and my judgment shall come to victory.📜💬📚

8 If I shall go to the East, he appeareth not: if to the West, I shall not understand him.📜💬📚

9 If to the left hand, what shall I do? I shall not apprehend him: if I turn my self to the right hand, I shall not see him.📜💬📚

10 But he knoweth my way, and hath proved me as gold that passeth through the fire:📜💬📚

11 My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, & have not declined out of it.📜💬📚

12 From the commandments of his lips I have not departed, and I have hid the words of his mouth in my bosom.📜💬📚

13 For he is alone, and no man can turn away his cogitation: and whatsoever his soul would, that hath he done.📜💬📚

14 And when he shall have fulfilled his will in me, many other things also are at hand with him.📜💬📚

15 And therefore I am troubled at his face, and considering him I am made pensive with fear.📜💬📚

16 God hath mollified my heart, and the Omnipotent hath troubled me.📜💬📚

17 For I have not perished because of the imminent darkness, neither hath the mist covered my face.📜💬📚