Job 23:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁷There an upright person could reason with him,
and I should be acquitted for ever by my judge.

⁸‘If I go forward, he is not there;
or backward, I cannot perceive him;
⁹on the left he hides, and I cannot behold him;
I turn^[a] to the right, but I cannot see him.

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Job 23:9 Syr Vg: Heb he turns

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