1Then Job answered and said,
2Even to day is my complaint bitter:
3O that I knew where I might find him!
4I would order my cause before him,
5I would know the words which he would answer me,
6Will he plead against me with his great power?
7There the righteous might dispute with him;
8Behold, I go forward, but he is not there;
9On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him:
10But he knoweth the way that I take:
11My foot hath held his steps,
12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips;
13But he is in one mind, and who can turn him?
14For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me:
15Therefore am I troubled at his presence:
16For God maketh my heart soft,
17Because I was not cut off before the darkness,