¹Then Job answered: ²“Even today my complaint is bitter. ³If only I knew where to find Him, ⁴I would plead my case before Him ⁵I would learn how He would answer, ⁶Would He contend with me in His great power? ⁷Then an upright man could reason with Him, ⁸If I go east, He is not there, ⁹When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; ¹⁰Yet He knows the way I have taken; ¹¹My feet have followed in His tracks; ¹²I have not departed from the command of His lips; ¹³But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? ¹⁴For He carries out His decree against me, ¹⁵Therefore I am terrified in His presence; ¹⁶God has made my heart faint; ¹⁷Yet I am not silenced by the darkness,