...You. You would have a desire for the work of Your hand. (14:15) Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, That I might come even to His seat; I would order...cause before Him, And fill my mouth with arguments; I would know the words which He would answer me, And understand what He would say unto me. Would He...

...absence. He demands law and justice instead of accident and chaos. "Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! I would order...cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." To all this, the answer is silence. The silence of God.4 It is impossible not to quote Martin Buber...

...to him! Nowhere can he see his face! He has hid himself from him! 'Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! I would order my cause before him, and fill my rnouth with arguments. I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would...

...waters, but alas, I cannot find Him. God where are You? My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?) 4, 1 would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments, (I would not just pray, but I would beg. I would plead for mercy. I would boldly approach the throne...

...from them. I grant also, that sometimes even this liberty, which is a free communing with God, and "/ would order my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments" (Job 23:4), is granted to the godly, but not as liberty taken in the former senses. Although the Lord...

...hit rock bottom. This is the text that he used to bless us, to help us, to sustain us: Job 23: 8- 10 "Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but 1 cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself...