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Job - Chapter 23

	Job 23:1	Then Job [fn]replied,
	Job 23:2	"Even today my complaint is rebellion; [fn]His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
	Job 23:3	"Oh that I knew where I might find Him, That I might come to His seat!
	Job 23:4	"I would present my case before Him And fill my mouth with arguments.
	Job 23:5	"I would learn the words which He would [fn]answer, And perceive what He would say to me.
	Job 23:6	"Would He contend with me by the greatness of His power? No, surely He would pay attention to me.
	Job 23:7	"There the upright would reason with Him; And I [fn]would be delivered forever from my Judge.
	Job 23:8	"Behold, I go forward but He is not there, And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;
	Job 23:9	When He acts on the left, I cannot behold Him; He turns on the right, I cannot see Him.
	Job 23:10	"But He knows the [fn]way I take; When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
	Job 23:11	"My foot has held fast to His path; I have kept His way and not turned aside.
	Job 23:12	"I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth [fn]more than my [fn]necessary food.
	Job 23:13	"But He is unique and who can turn Him? And what His soul desires, that He does.
	Job 23:14	"For He performs what is appointed for me, And many such decrees are with Him.
	Job 23:15	"Therefore, I would be dismayed at His presence; When I consider, I am terrified of Him.
	Job 23:16	"It is God who has made my heart faint, And the Almighty who has dismayed me,
	Job 23:17	But I am not silenced by the darkness, Nor deep gloom which covers me.

NASB Footnotes:

(23:1) Literally: answered and said
(23:2) So with Gr and Syr; M.T. My
(23:5) Literally: answer me
(23:7) Or, bring forth my justice forever
(23:10) Literally: way with me
(23:12) Or, with some versions, in my breast
(23:12) Literally: prescribed portion

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