King James Version

Job 23

Job in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Hebrew, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.

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Open Job 23:1

Then Job answered and said,
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Open Job 23:2

Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
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Open Job 23:3

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
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Open Job 23:4

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
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Open Job 23:5

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
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Open Job 23:6

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
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Open Job 23:7

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
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Open Job 23:8

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
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Open Job 23:9

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
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Open Job 23:10

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
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Open Job 23:11

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
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Open Job 23:12

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
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Open Job 23:13

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
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Open Job 23:14

For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
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Open Job 23:15

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
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Open Job 23:16

For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
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Open Job 23:17

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

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