1890 Darby's Translation of the Holy Scriptures (DBY)

Job 23

1 Job longeth to appear before God, 6 in confidence of his mercy. 8 God, who is invisible, observeth our ways. 11 Job's innocency. 13 God's decree is immutable.

 23:1 ¶ And Job answered and said,

 23:2 Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

 23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat!

 23:4 I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;

 23:5 I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

 23:6 Would he plead against me with [his] great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.

 23:7 There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge.

 23:8 Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;

 23:9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold [him] not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see [him] not.

 23:10 But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.

 23:11 My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.

 23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart.

 23:13 But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do.

 23:14 For he will perform [what] is appointed for me; and many such things are with him.

 23:15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him.

 23:16 For *God hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;

 23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.