Charles Spurgeon Commentary Job 23:7-8

"There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge. Behold, I go forward, but he is not [there]; And backward, but I cannot perceive him;" — Job 23:7-8 (ASV)

there the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. Behold, I go forward, but he is not there;

"I look to the future, I try to forecast the days that are yet to come, but I cannot see God there."