Job 23:3
Good News Translation
How I wish I knew where to find him, and knew how to go where he is.

New Revised Standard Version
Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his dwelling!

Contemporary English Version
If I knew where to find God, I would go there

New American Bible
Would that I knew how to find him, that I might come to his dwelling!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?

Oh that

Job 13:3 But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Job 16:21 And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!

Job 40:1-5 And the Lord went on, and said to Job: . . .

Isaiah 26:8 And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.

Jeremiah 14:7 If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many, we have sinned against thee.

where

Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:19,20 For God indeed was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their sins. And he hath placed in us the word of reconciliation. . . .

Hebrews 4:6 Seeing then it remaineth that some are to enter into it, and they to whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief:

that I might

Job 31:35-37 Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book, . . .

Context
Job Longs for God
2Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning. 3Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?4I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.…
Cross References
Job 23:2
Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.

Job 23:4
I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.

Job 23:2
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