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Job 23:8–9

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8–9“I travel East looking for him—I find no one;

then West, but not a trace;

I go North, but he’s hidden his tracks;

then South, but not even a glimpse.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Behold, I go forward, but he is not there,

and backward, but I do not perceive him;

on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him;

he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“But if I go to the east, he is not there;

if I go to the west, I do not find him.

When he is at work in the north, I do not see him;

when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

If I go east, he is not there,

and if I go west, I cannot perceive him.

When he is at work to the north, I cannot see him;

when he turns south, I cannot find him.

NLTNew Living Translation

I go east, but he is not there.

I go west, but I cannot find him.

I do not see him in the north, for he is hidden.

I look to the south, but he is concealed.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“When I go forward, he is not there,

or backward, I cannot see him.

When he works on the left, I cannot perceive him;

he turns to the right, but I cannot see him.

KJV 1900King James Version

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: