{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/job/23","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T00:30:40.680Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":23,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":22,"nextChapter":24,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Job answered and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Oh that I knew where I might find him, that I might come to his seat!"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Would he plead against me with his great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold him not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see him not."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have laid up the words of his mouth more than the purpose of my own heart."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"For he will perform what is appointed for me; and many such things are with him."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Therefore am I troubled at his presence; I consider, and I am afraid of him."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For God hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 23 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 23](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/23)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/23 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}