Job 23:3

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

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Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears unto God.

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!

Even today is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

I would set out my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is for your name, and for the remembrance of you.

Truly you are a God that hides yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for your name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter in because of unbelief: