Job 23:9

English Standard Version 2016

on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him; he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.

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I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.

“Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I do not perceive him;

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.

How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!

Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?—

Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.