Job’s response to Eliphaz
Then
Job responded and said: “Even today is my complaint bitter; my stroke is heavier
than my groaning. O that I may know where I can find Him, that I may come over
even to His seat. I would order my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with
arguments. I would know the words which He would answer me, and understand what
he would say to me. Will He plead against me with His great power? No. But He
would put strength in me. There the righteous might dispute with Him so that I
be delivered forever from my judge. Behold I go forward but He is not there.
And backwards but I cannot perceive Him, on the left hand where He doth work;
but I cannot behold him; He hides himself on the left so I cannot see Him. But
He knows the way that I take when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
My foot has held his steps. His way have I kept and not declined, neither have
I gone back from the commandments of His lips, I have esteemed the words of His
mouth more than my necessary food; but He is in one mood, and who can turn him?
And what His soul desireth even that He doeth. For He performeth the things
that are appointed for me, and many such things are with Him. Therefore am I
troubled at His presence when I consider I am afraid of Him; for God maketh my
heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me, because I was not cut off before the
darkness, neither has He covered the darkness from my face. www.chaberbooks.com
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