Job
1-2 I still rebel and complain against God;
I cannot keep from groaning.
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.
16-17 Almighty God has destroyed my courage.
It is God, not the dark, that makes me afraid—
even though the darkness has made me blind.
1 Bvt Iob answered and sayd, 2 Though my talke be this day in bitternes, and my plague greater then my groning, 3 Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place. 4 I would pleade the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, and would vnderstand what he would say vnto me. 6 Would he plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me. 7 There the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge. 8 Behold, if I go to the East, he is not there: if to the West, yet I can not perceiue him: 9 If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him. 10 But he knoweth my way, and trieth mee, and I shall come forth like the gold. 11 My foote hath followed his steps: his way haue I kept, and haue not declined. 12 Neyther haue I departed from the commandement of his lippes, and I haue esteemed the words of his mouth more then mine appointed foode. 13 Yet he is in one minde, and who can turne him? yea, he doeth what his minde desireth. 14 For he will performe that, which is decreed of me, and many such things are with him. 15 Therefore I am troubled at his presence, and in considering it, I am afraid of him. 16 For God hath softened mine heart, and the Almightie hath troubled me. 17 For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.