1. Then Job answered by saying:
2. Now again my conversation is in bitterness, and the force of my scourging weighs more heavily on me because of my mourning.
3. Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and that I may approach even to his throne?
4. I would place judgment before his eye, and my mouth would fill with criticism,
5. so that I may know the words that he will answer me and understand what he will say to me.
6. I do not want him to contend with me with much strength, nor to overwhelm me with the bulk of his greatness.
7. Let him show fairness in response to me, and let my judgment reach to victory.
8. If I go to the east, he does not appear; if I go to the west, I will not understand him.