Job 23
Job’s Reply to Eliphaz
1Then Job answered:23Today also my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.4
5If only I knew how to find him, so that I could go to his throne.6
7I would plead my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.8
9I would learn how he would answer me; and understand what he would say to me.10
11Would he prosecute me forcefully? No, he would certainly pay attention to me.12
13Then an upright man could reason with him, and I would escape from my Judge forever.14
15If I go east, he is not there, and if I go west, I cannot perceive him.16
17When he is at work to the north, I cannot see him; when he turns south, I cannot find him.18
19Yet he knows the way I have taken; when he has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold.20
21My feet have followed in his tracks; I have kept to his way and not turned aside.22
23I have not departed from the commands from his lips; I have treasured the words from his mouth more than my daily food.24
25But he is unchangeable; who can oppose him? He does what he desires.26
27He will certainly accomplish what he has decreed for me, and he has many more things like these in mind.28
29Therefore I am terrified in his presence; when I consider this, I am afraid of him.30
31God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.32
33Yet I am not destroyed by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.34