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my hand is heavy on account of my groaning.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">If only I knew where to find God, I would go to his court.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I would lay out my case and present my arguments.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then I would listen to his reply and understand what he says to me.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I would know what he would answer me and understand what he would say to me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Would he use his great power to argue with me? No, he would give me a fair hearing.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would pay attention to me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Honest people can reason with him, so I would be forever acquitted by my judge.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">There an upright man could argue with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I go east, but he is not there. I go west, but I cannot find him.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I do not perceive him;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I do not see him in the north, for he is hidden. I look to the south, but he is concealed.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him; he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“But he knows where I am going. And when he tests me, I will come out as pure as gold.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For I have stayed on God’s paths; I have followed his ways and not turned aside.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I have not departed from his commands, but have treasured his words more than daily food.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But once he has made his decision, who can change his mind? Whatever he wants to do, he does.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So he will do to me whatever he has planned. He controls my destiny.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For he will complete what he appoints for me, and many such things are in his mind.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">No wonder I am so terrified in his presence. When I think of it, terror grips me.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">God has made me sick at heart; the Almighty has terrified me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Darkness is all around me; thick, impenetrable darkness is everywhere.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness covers my face.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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