1 Then Job replied ⌞to his friends⌟,
2 “My complaint is bitter again today.
3 “If only I knew where I could find God!
4 I would present ⌞my⌟ case to him.
5 I want to know the words he would use to answer me.
6 Would he sue me and hide behind great legal maneuvers?
7 Then decent people could argue with him,
8 However, if I go east, he isn’t there.
9 If I go northward, where he is at work, I can’t observe him.
10 ⌞I can’t find him⌟ because he knows the road I take.
11 I have followed his footsteps closely.
12 I have not left his commands behind.
13 “But God is one of a kind.
14 He will carry out ⌞his⌟ orders concerning me
15 That is why I’m terrified of him.
16 God has discouraged me.
17 But I am not silenced by the dark