T<\/span>hen Job answered and said,<\/span><\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.<\/span> <\/p>\n