Job 23

Revised Geneva Translation

23 But Job answered, and said,

² “Though my talk be in bitterness today, and my plague greater than my groaning,

³ “I wish that I knew how to find Him. I would enter into His place.

⁴ “I would plead the cause before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.

⁵ “I would know the Words He would answer me and would understand what He would say to me.

⁶ “Would He plead against me with His great power? No, He would surely acknowledge me.

⁷ “There the righteous might reason with Him. So I would 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 works, yet I cannot see Him. He will hide Himself in the South, and I cannot behold Him.

¹⁰ “But He knows my way, and tries me. I shall come forth like gold.

¹¹ “My foot has followed His steps. I have kept His way, and have not declined.

¹² “Nor have I departed from the Commandment of His Lips. I have treasured the Words of His Mouth more than my appointed food.

¹³ “Yet, He is One and who can turn Him? Yea, He does what His Mind desires.

¹⁴ “For He will perform that which is decreed for 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 has softened my heart. And the Almighty has terrified me.

¹⁷ “For I am not cut off in darkness. But He has hidden the darkness from my face.”