Job 23:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Today also my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.

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“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah

and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For wisdom is many-sided. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Then Job answered:

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

For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”

Mortal, with one blow I am about to take away from you the delight of your eyes, yet you shall not mourn or weep, nor shall your tears run down.

to sit alone in silence when the Lord has imposed it,