Job 23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Job’s Reply to Eliphaz

¹ Then Job answered:

² Today also my complaint is bitter.  , His  hand is heavy despite my groaning.

³ If only I knew how to find him, so that I could go to his throne.

⁴ I would plead my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

⁵ I would learn how  he would answer me; and understand what he would say to me.

⁶ Would he prosecute  me forcefully? No, he would certainly pay attention to me.

⁷ Then an upright man could reason  with him, and I would escape from my Judge  ,  for ever.

⁸ If I go east, he is not there, and if I go west, I cannot perceive him.

⁹ When he is at work to the north, I cannot see him; when he turns south, I cannot find him.

¹⁰ Yet he knows the way I have taken; when he has tested me,  I will emerge as pure gold.

¹¹ My feet have followed in his tracks; I have kept to his way  and not turned aside.

¹² I have not departed from the commands from his lips; I have treasured  the words  from his mouth more than my daily food.

¹³ But he is unchangeable; who can oppose him? He does what he desires.

¹⁴ He will certainly accomplish what he has decreed for me, and he has many more things like these in mind.

¹⁵ Therefore I am terrified  in his presence; when I consider this, I am afraid of him.

¹⁶ God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

¹⁷ Yet I am not destroyed  by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.