1Bvt Iob answered and sayd, 2Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3Would God yet I knew how to finde him, I would enter vnto his place. 4I would pleade the cause before him, & fill my mouth with arguments. 5I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, & would vnderstand what he would say vnto me. 6Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in me. 7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. 8Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there]; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: 9If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him. 10But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. 11My foote hath followed his steps: his way haue I kept, and haue not declined. 12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food]. 13But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth. 14For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things are] with him. 15Therefore I am troubled at his presence, & in considering it, I am afraid of him. 16For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: 17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.