The Book of Job, Chapter 23, Verse 17

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there]; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

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]:

But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food].

But he [is] in one [mind], and who can turn him? and [what] his soul desireth, even [that] he doeth.

For he performeth [the thing that is] appointed for me: and many such [things are] with him.

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

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For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

King James Version

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.

American Standard Version

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

New English Translation

Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

World English Bible

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

[Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].

They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.

They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that [they have] no covering in the cold.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;