And Job answered and said,
Also today [is] my complaint rebellion,{HR}My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
O that I knew where to find him!{HR}I would come unto his chair of state,
I would draw up the cause before him,{HR}And would fill my mouth with arguments;
I would know the words he would answer me,{HR}And understand what he would say to me.
Would he contend with me by main strength?{HR}Nay, but he would give heed to me.
There would a righteous one be pleading with him,{HR}And I should be forever quit of my judge.
Behold, I go eastward, but he is not there,{HR}And westward, but I cannot perceive him;
To the north, where he worketh, but cannot behold [him];{HR}He veileth the south, and I see [him] not.
But he knoweth the way, who is with me;{HR}He trieth me, as gold I come forth.
To his step my foot hath held,{HR}His way have I kept, and not turned aside:
The commandment of his lips I have not left,{HR}More than my law ,{HR}Have I kept the sayings of his mouth.
But he [is] in one thing, and who will turn him?{HR}And his soul desireth, and he will accomplish.
For he performeth what is appointed me,{HR}And much of the like [is] with him.
Therefore I am confounded before his face;{HR}I consider, and am afraid before him.
For God [El] hath made my heart soft,{HR}And the Almighty hath confounded me,
For I was not cut off before the darkness,{HR}And before me covered he the thick darkness.