Holman Christian Standard Bible

Job 23:8-17 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

8. If I go east, He is not there,and if I go west, I cannot perceive Him.

9. When He is at work to the north, I cannot see Him;when He turns south, I cannot find Him.

10. Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold.

11. My feet have followed in His tracks;I have kept to His way and not turned aside.

12. I have not departed from the commands of His lips;I have treasured the words of His mouthmore than my daily food.

13. But He is unchangeable; who can oppose Him?He does what He desires.

14. He will certainly accomplish what He has decreed for me,and He has many more things like these in mind.

15. Therefore I am terrified in His presence;when I consider this, I am afraid of Him.

16. God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

17. Yet I am not destroyed by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.