book_id: JOB

book: Job

text: Then Job answered and said,


text: Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.


text: Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!


text: I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.


text: I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.


text: Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.


text: There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.


text: Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:


text: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:


text: But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.


text: My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.


text: Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.


text: But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.


text: For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.


text: Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.


text: For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:


text: Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.