Job 23:9

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

on the left hand I seek him, but I cannot behold him; I turn to the right hand, but I cannot 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? Wilt thou hide thyself for ever? How long will thy wrath burn like fire?

Lo, 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 cannot perceive him;

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come forth 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 thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this was thy 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, thou art a God who hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Savior.