Job 23:1-10 (King James Version)

Job 23

 ¹Then Job answered and said,

 ²Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

 ³Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

 ⁴I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

 ⁵I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

 ⁶Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

 ⁷There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

 ⁸Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

 ⁹On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

 ¹⁰But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.