Job: Where Is God?

¹Then Job answered,

²“Even today my complaint is rebellious.

Hɪꜱ hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

³Oh that I knew where I might find ʜɪᴍ!

That I might come even to ʜɪꜱ seat!

⁴I would set my cause in order before ʜɪᴍ,

and fill my mouth with arguments.

⁵I would know the words which he would answer me,

and understand what ʜᴇ would tell me.

⁶Would ʜᴇ contend with me in the greatness of ʜɪꜱ power?

No, but ʜᴇ would listen to me.

⁷There the upright might reason with ʜɪᴍ,

and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

⁸“If I go east, ʜᴇ is not there.

If I go west, I can’t find ʜɪᴍ.

⁹Hᴇ works to the north, but I can’t see ʜɪᴍ.

He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of ʜɪᴍ.

¹⁰But ʜᴇ knows the way that I take.

When ʜᴇ has tried me, I will come out like gold.

¹¹My foot has held fast to ʜɪꜱ steps.

I have kept his way, and not turned away.

¹²I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips.

I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

¹³But ʜᴇ stands alone, and who can oppose ʜɪᴍ?

What ʜɪꜱ soul desires, ʜᴇ does.

¹⁴For ʜᴇ fulfills what is appointed for me.

Many such things are with ʜɪᴍ.

¹⁵Therefore I am terrified at ʜɪꜱ presence.

When I consider, I am afraid of ʜɪᴍ.

¹⁶For God has made my heart faint.

The Almighty has terrified me.

¹⁷Because I was not cut off before the darkness,

neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.