Job 23:8-10

Revised Standard Version

⁸ “Behold, I go forward, but he is not there;
    and backward, but I cannot perceive him;
⁹ on the left hand I seek him,^[a] but I cannot behold him;
    I^[b] turn to the right hand, but I cannot see him.
¹⁰ But he knows the way that I take;
    when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.