✧Then 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]. ✧13But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth. ✧14For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things are] with him. ✧15Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. ✧16For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: ✧17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.