Job 23:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

on the left he hides, and I cannot behold him; I turn to the right, but I cannot see him.

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

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

“If I go forward, he is not there; or backward, I cannot perceive him;

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him? Whether nation or person, it is the same—

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

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

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

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

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