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Job 23
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Job Replies: Where Is God?
1
Then Job answered and said:
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“Today also my complaint is bitter;
1
my hand is heavy on account of my groaning.
(
Job 10:1
;
Job 21:4
;
Ps 32:4
)
3
Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!
(
Job 13:3
;
Job 16:21
;
Ps 9:7
;
Isa 57:15
)
4
I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
(
Job 33:5
)
5
I would know what he would answer me and understand what he would say to me.
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Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would pay attention to me.
(
Job 9:34
;
Job 13:21
)
7
There an upright man could argue with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.
8
“Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I do not perceive him;
(
Job 9:11
;
Job 35:14
)
9
on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him; he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.
10
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.
(
Job 9:35
;
Ps 17:3
;
Ps 26:2
;
Ps 66:10
;
Ps 139:1
;
Ps 139:23
;
Ps 139:24
;
Zec 13:9
;
Mal 3:3
;
Jas 1:12
;
1Pe 1:7
;
Re 3:18
)
11
My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside.
(
Ps 17:5
;
Ps 44:18
;
Ps 125:5
)
12
I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
(
Ps 119:11
;
Ps 119:103
;
Joh 4:32
;
Joh 4:34
)
13
But he is unchangeable,
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and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does.
(
Job 9:12
;
Job 12:14
;
Ps 115:3
)
14
For he will complete what he appoints for me, and many such things are in his mind.
(
Job 10:13
;
Job 27:11
;
1Th 3:3
)
15
Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.
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God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;
(
De 20:3
;
Ps 22:14
)
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yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness covers my face.
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Or defiant
2
Or one
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