Thematic Bible
Job 23:1 (show verse)
Then Job answered and said,
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Job 23:2 (show verse)
"Even today my complaint [is] bitter; my hand is heavy in addition to my groaning.
Job 23:3 (show verse)
{O that} I knew and [that] I might find him; [O that] I might come to his dwelling.
Job 23:4 (show verse)
I would lay [my] case {before him}, and I would fill my mouth [with] arguments
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Job 23:5 (show verse)
I want to know [the] words [with which] he would answer me, and I want to understand what he would say to me.
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Job 23:6 (show verse)
Would he contend with me in [the] greatness of [his] strength? No, but he himself would give heed to me.
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Job 23:7 (show verse)
There an upright person could reason with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.
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Job 23:8 (show verse)
"When I go forward, {he is not there}, or backward, I cannot see him.
Job 23:9 (show verse)
{When he works} [on the] left, {I cannot perceive} [him]; he turns to [the] right, but I cannot see [him].
Job 23:10 (show verse)
But he knows {the way that I take}; he tests me--I shall come out like gold.
Job 23:11 (show verse)
My foot has held on to his steps; I have kept his way, and I have not turned aside.
Job 23:12 (show verse)
[From] the commandment of his lips, indeed I have not departed; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily food.
Job 23:13 (show verse)
"But he [is] {alone}, and who can dissuade him? And {whatever he desires}, {indeed}, he does [it].
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Job 23:14 (show verse)
For he will carry out {what he appoints for me}, and many [things] like these [are] with him
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Job 23:15 (show verse)
Therefore, I am horrified because of his presence; [when] I consider, I tremble because of him.
Job 23:16 (show verse)
Indeed, God has made my heart faint, and Shaddai has terrified me.
Job 23:17 (show verse)
Indeed, I have not been silenced {because of darkness}, and because of me he conceals thick darkness.