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23Then Job answered and said,
²Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
³Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
⁴I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
⁵I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
⁶Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
⁷There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
⁸Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
⁹On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
¹⁰But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
¹¹My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
¹²Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.