¹Then Iyov [hated] answered and said,

²Even today [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

³Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat!

⁴I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

⁵I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

⁶Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in me.

⁷There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered forever from my judge.

⁸Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there] ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

⁹On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold [him] : he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see [him] :

¹⁰But he knows the way that I take: [when] he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

¹¹My foot has held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

¹²Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food] .

¹³But he [is] in one [mind] , and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desires, even [that] he does.

¹⁴For he performs [the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things are] with him.

¹⁵Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

¹⁶For God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me:

¹⁷Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] has he covered the darkness from my face.