The Book of Job

And Job answered and said:

Even today my complaint [is] bitter; my hand is heavy over my groaning.

Oh that I knew [where] I might find Him, I would come into His seat;

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

I would know the words He would answer me, and understand what He would say to me.

Would He plead against me with greatness of strength? No, surely He would put [it] in me.

There the righteous might reason with Him; and I would be forever delivered from my Judge.

Behold, I go forward, but He is not [there]; and backward, but I do not see Him;

to the left where He works, but I cannot see; He turns to the right, but I do not see [Him].

But He knows the way with me. [When] I am tried, I shall come forth as gold.

My foot has held fast in His steps; I have kept His way and have not turned;

nor have I departed from the command of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.

But He [is] in one [mind], and who can turn Him? Yea, His soul desires, and He does [it].

For He fulfilled my lot, and many like these are with Him.

On account of this I am troubled from His presence; I consider, and am in dread of Him.

For God makes my heart weak, and the Almighty troubles me.

In [this] I was not cut off by darkness; yea, He covered the thick darkness from my face.