Job 23:1-9
Authorized (King James) Version
23 Then Job answered and said,
2 Even to day is my complaint bitter:
my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
3 Oh that I knew where I might find him!
that I might come even to his seat!
4 I would order my cause before him,
and fill my mouth with arguments.
5 I would know the words which he would answer me,
and understand what he would say unto me.
6 Will he plead against me with his great power?
No; but he would put strength in me.
7 There the righteous might dispute with him;
so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there;
and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
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:
Job 23:16-17
Authorized (King James) Version
16 For God maketh my heart soft,
and the Almighty troubleth me:
17 because I was not cut off before the darkness,
neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
KJV reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK.