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Job 23 (GN)

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¹ I still rebel and complain against God; I cannot keep from groaning. ² (SEE 23:1) ³ How I wish I knew where to find him, and knew how to go where he is. ⁴ I would state my case before him and present all the arguments in my favor. ⁵ I want to know what he would say and how he would answer me. ⁶ Would God use all his strength against me? No, he would listen as I spoke. ⁷ I am honest; I could reason with God; he would declare me innocent once and for all. ⁸ I have searched in the East, but God is not there; I have not found him when I searched in the West. ⁹ God has been at work in the North and the South, but still I have not seen him. ¹⁰ Yet God knows every step I take; if he tests me, he will find me pure. ¹¹ I follow faithfully the road he chooses, and never wander to either side. ¹² I always do what God commands; I follow his will, not my own desires. ¹³ He never changes. No one can oppose him or stop him from doing what he wants to do. ¹⁴ He will fulfill what he has planned for me; that plan is just one of the many he has; ¹⁵ I tremble with fear before him. ¹⁶ Almighty God has destroyed my courage. It is God, not the dark, that makes me afraid--- even though the darkness has made me blind. ¹⁷ (SEE 23:16)