The Book of Job

Then Job replied,

"Even today my complaint is rebellion; His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

"Oh that I knew where I might find Him, That I might come to His seat!

"I would present [my] case before Him And fill my mouth with arguments.

"I would learn the words [which] He would answer, And perceive what He would say to me.

"Would He contend with me by the greatness of [His] power? No, surely He would pay attention to me.

"There the upright would reason with Him; And I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

"Behold, I go forward but He is not [there,] And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;

When He acts on the left, I cannot behold [Him;] He turns on the right, I cannot see Him.

"But He knows the way I take; [When] He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

"My foot has held fast to His path; I have kept His way and not turned aside.

"I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.

"But He is unique and who can turn Him? And [what] His soul desires, that He does.

"For He performs what is appointed for me, And many such [decrees] are with Him.

"Therefore, I would be dismayed at His presence; [When] I consider, I am terrified of Him.

"[It is] God [who] has made my heart faint, And the Almighty [who] has dismayed me,

But I am not silenced by the darkness, Nor deep gloom [which] covers [me].