King James Version (KJV) Authorized Version 1611
Read Full Chapter (Job 23) Job 23:2-5 KJV
"Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come 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 unto me."
Job 23:2-5 in Context (Verses 1–8 KJV)
1
Then Job answered and said,
2
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.*
3
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
4
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5
I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
6
Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
7
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
8
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: