23:2 “Today too my complaint is bitter; my hand is weighed down because of my groaning.
23:3 I wish I knew where I could find him; then I would go to where he is.
23:4 I would state my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
23:5 I would know his answering words and grasp what he would tell me.
23:6 Would he browbeat me with his great power? No, he would pay attention to me.
23:7 There an upright person could reason with him; thus I might be forever acquitted by my judge.
23:8 “If I head east, he isn’t there; if I head west, I don’t detect him,
23:9 if I turn north, I don’t spot him; in the south he is veiled, and I still don’t see him.
23:10 Yet he knows the way I take; when he has tested me, I will come out like gold.
23:11 My feet have stayed in his footsteps; I keep to his way without turning aside.
23:12 I don’t withdraw from his lips’ command; I treasure his words more than my daily food.
23:13 “But he has no equal, so who can change him? What he desires, he does.
23:14 He will accomplish what is decreed for me, and he has many plans like this.
23:15 This is why I am terrified of him; the more I think about it, the more afraid I am —
23:16 God has undermined my courage; Shaddai frightens me.
23:17 Yet I am not cut off by the darkness; he has protected me from the deepest gloom.
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