“Behold, I go forward but He is not there,
And backward, but I (A)cannot perceive Him;
When He acts on the left, I cannot behold Him;
He turns on the right, I cannot see Him.
10 “But He knows the [a]way I take;
When He has (B)tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 23:10 Lit way with me

“But if I go to the east, he is not there;
    if I go to the west, I do not find him.
When he is at work in the north, I do not see him;
    when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.(A)
10 But he knows the way that I take;(B)
    when he has tested me,(C) I will come forth as gold.(D)

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