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| 1. | And Job answereth and saith: -- |
| 2. | Also -- to-day is my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing. |
| 3. | O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat, |
| 4. | I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill with arguments. |
| 5. | I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me. |
| 6. | In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth it in me. |
| 7. | There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge. |
| 8. | Lo, forward I go -- and He is not, And backward -- and I perceive him not. |
| 9. | To the left in His working -- and I see not, He is covered on the right, and I behold not. |
| 10. | For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me -- as gold I go forth. |
| 11. | On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside, |
| 12. | The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth. |
| 13. | And He is in one mind, And who doth turn Him back? And His soul hath desired -- and He doth it. |
| 14. | For He doth complete my portion, And many such things are with Him. |
| 15. | Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him. |
| 16. | And God hath made my heart soft, And the Mighty hath troubled me. |
| 17. | For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness. |