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¹ Then Iyov answered:

² "Today too my complaint is bitter;
my hand is weighed down because of my groaning.
³ I wish I knew where I could find him;
then I would go to where he is.
⁴ I would state my case before him
and fill my mouth with arguments.
⁵ I would know his answering words
and grasp what he would tell me.
⁶ Would he browbeat me with his great power?
No, he would pay attention to me.
⁷ There an upright person could reason with him;
thus I might be forever acquitted by my judge.

⁸ "If I head east, he isn't there;
if I head west, I don't detect him,
⁹ if I turn north, I don't spot him;
in the south he is veiled, and I still don't see him.
¹⁰ Yet he knows the way I take;
when he has tested me, I will come out like gold.
¹¹ My feet have stayed in his footsteps;
I keep to his way without turning aside.
¹² I don't withdraw from his lips' command;
I treasure his words more than my daily food.

¹³ "But he has no equal, so who can change him?
What he desires, he does.
¹⁴ He will accomplish what is decreed for me,
and he has many plans like this.
¹⁵ This is why I am terrified of him;
the more I think about it, the more afraid I am —
¹⁶ God has undermined my courage;
Shaddai frightens me.
¹⁷ Yet I am not cut off by the darkness;
he has protected me from the deepest gloom.