- Then Job replied:
- "Even today my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
- If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling!
- I would state my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
- I would find out what he would answer me, and consider what he would say to me.
- Would he vigorously oppose me? No, he would not press charges against me.
- There the upright can establish their innocence before him, and there I would be delivered forever from my judge.
- "But if I go to the east, he is not there; if I go to the west, I do not find him.
- When he is at work in the north, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.
- God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.
- Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.