Job 23:1-12

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Job Replies: Where Is God?

23 Then Job answered and said:

²“Today also my ^(A)complaint is bitter;^[a]
    my ^(B)hand is heavy on account of my groaning.
³Oh, ^(C)that I knew where I might find him,
    that I might come even to his ^(D)seat!
⁴I would ^(E)lay my case before him
    and fill my mouth with arguments.
⁵I would know what he would answer me
    and understand what he would say to me.
⁶Would he ^(F)contend with me in the greatness of his power?
    No; he would pay attention to me.
⁷There an upright man could argue with him,
    and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

⁸“Behold, ^(G)I go forward, but he is not there,
    and backward, but I do not perceive him;
⁹on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him;
    he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.
¹⁰But he ^(H)knows ^(I)the way that I ^(J)take;
    when he has ^(K)tried me, I shall come out as gold.
¹¹My foot ^(L)has held fast to his steps;
    I have kept his way and have ^(M)not turned aside.
¹²I have not departed from the commandment of his lips;
    I have ^(N)treasured the words of his mouth more than my ^(O)portion of food.

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Job 23:2 Or defiant

John 17:1-8

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The High Priestly Prayer

17 When Jesus had spoken these words, ^(A)he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, ^(B)the hour has come; ^(C)glorify your Son that the Son may ^(D)glorify you, ²since ^(E)you have given him authority over all flesh, ^(F)to give eternal life to all ^(G)whom you have given him. ³^(H)And this is eternal life, ^(I)that they know you, ^(J)the only ^(K)true God, and ^(L)Jesus Christ whom you have sent. ⁴I ^(M)glorified you on earth, ^(N)having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. ⁵And now, Father, ^(O)glorify me in your own presence with the glory ^(P)that I had with you ^(Q)before the world existed.

⁶^(R)“I have manifested your name to the people ^(S)whom you gave me out of the world. ^(T)Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. ⁷Now they know that everything ^(U)that you have given me is from you. ⁸For I have given them ^(V)the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that ^(W)I came from you; and ^(X)they have believed that you sent me.