Dual Panel1Job answered:
2Even today my thoughts are embittered, for God's hand is heavy on me in my trouble.
3If only I knew how to reach him, how to enter his court,
4I should state my case before him and set out my arguments in full;
5then I should learn what answer he would give and understand what he had to say to me.
6Would he exert his great power to browbeat me? No; God himself would never set his face against me.
7There in his court the upright are vindicated, and I should win from my judge an outright acquittal.
8If I go to the east, he is not there; if west, I cannot find him;
9when I turn north, I do not descry him; I face south, but he is not to be seen.
10Yet he knows me in action and at rest; when he tests me, I shall emerge like gold.
11My feet have kept to the path he has set me; without deviating I have kept to his way.
12I do not neglect the commands he issues, I have treasured in my heart all he says.
13When he decides, who can turn him from his purpose? What he desires, he does.
14Whatever he determines for me, that he carries out; his mind is full of plans like these.
15That is why I am fearful of meeting him; when I think about it, I am afraid;
16it is God who makes me faint-hearted, the Almighty who fills me with fear,
17yet I am not reduced to silence by the darkness or by the mystery which hides him.