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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Even today my complaint is bitter;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="content">his hand</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:2 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">/&#160;the hand on me</span></span></span><span class="content"> is heavy in spite of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">heavy on me in</span></span></span><span class="content"> my groaning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If only I knew where to find him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="content">if only I could go to his dwelling!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I would state my case before him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="content">and fill my mouth with arguments.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I would find out what he would answer me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="content">and consider what he would say to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Would he vigorously oppose me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="content">No, he would not press charges against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">There the upright can establish their innocence before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="content">and there I would be delivered forever from my judge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if I go to the east, he is not there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="content">if I go to the west, I do not find him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When he is at work in the north, I do not see him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="content">when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But he knows the way that I take;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="content">when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My feet have closely followed his steps;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="content">I have kept to his way without turning aside.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I have not departed from the commands of his lips;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="content">I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;But he stands alone, and who can oppose him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="content">He does whatever he pleases.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He carries out his decree against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="content">and many such plans he still has in store.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">That is why I am terrified before him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="content">when I think of all this, I fear him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">God has made my heart faint;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="content">the Almighty has terrified me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Yet I am not silenced by the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.23.17"><span class="content">by the thick darkness that covers my face.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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