Job
Job, a blameless man, suffers catastrophic loss. Friends offer tidy explanations; Job protests; God speaks from the whirlwind. The book refuses easy answers and ends with encounter, restoration, and worship.
Webster Bible
Job 23
1Then Job answered and said, 2Even to-day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat! 4I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me. 6Would he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in me. 7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. 8Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there]; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: 9On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold [him]: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see [him]: 10But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. 11My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. 12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food]. 13But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth. 14For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things are] with him. 15Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. 16For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: 17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.
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