Job 23:8-10, Jer 15:18 | ESV | STEP | Behold , I go forward , but he is not there, and backward , but I do not perceive him;

Job 23:8-10

8 “Behold, ^aI go forward, but he is not there,
and backward, but I do not perceive him;
9 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.
10 But he ^bknows ^cthe way that I ^dtake;
when he has ^etried me, I shall come out as gold.

Jeremiah 15:18

18 Why is my pain unceasing,
^fmy wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
Will you be to me ^glike a deceitful brook,
like waters that fail?