Job - Chapter 23 | Good News Translation

  • 1. I still rebel and complain against God; I cannot keep from groaning.
  • 2. {cf15I (SEE 23:1)}
  • 3. How I wish I knew where to find him, and knew how to go where he is.
  • 4. I would state my case before him and present all the arguments in my favor.
  • 5. I want to know what he would say and how he would answer me.
  • 6. Would God use all his strength against me? No, he would listen as I spoke.
  • 7. I am honest; I could reason with God; he would declare me innocent once and for all.
  • 8. I have searched in the East, but God is not there; I have not found him when I searched in the West.
  • 9. God has been at work in the North and the South, but still I have not seen him.
  • 10. Yet God knows every step I take; if he tests me, he will find me pure.
  • 11. I follow faithfully the road he chooses, and never wander to either side.
  • 12. I always do what God commands; I follow his will, not my own desires.
  • 13. He never changes. No one can oppose him or stop him from doing what he wants to do.
  • 14. He will fulfill what he has planned for me; that plan is just one of the many he has;
  • 15. I tremble with fear before him.
  • 16. Almighty God has destroyed my courage. It is God, not the dark, that makes me afraid--- even though the darkness has made me blind.
  • 17. {cf15I (SEE 23:16)}
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