Job Longs to Appear before God
Job
1 Job longs to appear before God, 6 in confidence of his mercy, 8 God, who is invisible, observes our ways, 11 Job's innocence, 13 God's decree is immutable
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.
Job 9:19;Isa 27:4 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.
Psa 10:1;1 Tim 6:16 8 ¶ Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
Psa 17:3;Jam 1:12 10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Psa 44:1811 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Jam 1:17;Rom 9:19;Ecc 3:14 13 ¶ But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
1 The 3:314 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
Psa 119:12015 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Job 6:917 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.