53 lines
1.6 KiB
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53 lines
1.6 KiB
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## Where Is God?
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###### 1
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Then Job answered and said,
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###### 2
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"Even today my musing is rebellion; His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
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###### 3
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Oh that I knew where I might find Him, That I might come to His seat!
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###### 4
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I would arrange _my case for_ justice before Him And fill my mouth with arguments.
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###### 5
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I would know the words _which_ He would answer, And discern what He would say to me.
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###### 6
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Would He contend with me by the greatness of _His_ power? No, surely He would pay attention to me.
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###### 7
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There the upright would argue with Him; And I would have escaped forever from my Judge.
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###### 8
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"Behold, I go forward but He is not _there_, And backward, but I cannot discern Him;
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When He acts on the left, I cannot behold _Him_; He turns on the right, I cannot see Him.
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###### 10
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But He knows the way I take; _When_ He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
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###### 11
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My foot has held fast to His path; I have kept His way and not turned aside.
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###### 12
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I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion _of food_.
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###### 13
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But He is unique and who can turn Him? And _what_ His soul desires, that He does.
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###### 14
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For He performs what is apportioned for me, And many such _decrees_ are with Him.
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###### 15
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Therefore, I would be dismayed at His presence; I carefully consider, and I am in dread of Him.
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###### 16
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_It is_ God _who_ has made my heart faint, And the Almighty _who_ has dismayed me,
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###### 17
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But I am not silenced by the darkness, Nor thick darkness _which_ covers me.
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