✧Then Job answered, ✧2“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning. ✧3Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat! ✧4I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. ✧5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me. ✧6Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me. ✧7There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge. ✧8“If I go east, he is not there. If I go west, I can’t find him. ✧9He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him. ✧10But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold. ✧11My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away. ✧12I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. ✧