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No; but he would put strength in me.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="black">There the righteous might reason with him; so should I be delivered forever from my judge.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="black">Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="black">On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him: he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="black">But he knows the way that I take: when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="black">My foot has held fast to his steps, his way have I kept, and not turned aside.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="black">Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="black">But he is of one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="black">For he performs the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="black">Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="black">For God makes my heart soft, and the Almighty troubles me:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="black">Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face.</span></p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The King James 2000 Bible, copyright © Doctor of Theology Robert A. 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