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[1]But Job answered and said,
[2]Though my talk be this day in bitterness, and my plague greater than my groaning,
[3]Would God yet I knew how to find him, I would enter unto his place.
[4]I would plead the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
[5]I would know the words , that he would answer me, and would understand what he would say unto me.
[6]Would he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me.
[7]There the righteous might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
[8]Behold, if I go to the east, he is not there: if to the west, yet I cannot perceive him:
[9]If to the north where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he will hide himself in the south, and I cannot behold him.
[10]But he knoweth my way , and trieth me, and I shall come forth like the gold.
[11]My foot hath followed his steps: his way have I kept, and have not declined.
[12]Neither have I departed from the commandment of his lips , and I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than mine appointed food.
[13]Yet he is in one mind, and who can turn him? Yea, he doeth what his mind desireth.
[14]For he will perform that, which is decreed of me, and many such things are with him.
[15]Therefore I am troubled at his presence, and in considering it, I am afraid of him.
[16]For God hath softened mine heart, and the Almighty hath troubled me.
[17]For I am not cut off in darkness, but he hath hid the darkness from my face.
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