Hiob 23:16

16 Ja, Gott hat mein Herz verzagt gemacht, und der Allmächtige mich in Bestürzung versetzt.

Hiob 23:16 Meaning and Commentary

Job 23:16

For God maketh my heart soft
Not tender as Josiah's was, ( 2 Kings 22:19 ) , or as the heart of every penitent is, when God makes it humble and contrite by his spirit and grace, or takes away the stony heart, and gives an heart of flesh; though Job had such an heart, and God made it so; but he means a weak, feeble, fearful heart, pressed and broken with afflictions, that could not endure and bear up under the mighty hand of God; but became as water, and melted like wax in the midst of him, and was ready to faint, and sink, and die away:

and the Almighty troubleth me;
by afflicting him; afflictions cause trouble, and these are of God; or he "astonishes" ^F1, amazes me, throws me into the utmost consternation, the reason of which follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (ynlyhbh) "me attonitum reddidit", Vatablus; "consternavit me", Drusius, Mercerus, Cocceius, Michaelis; "externavit me", Schultens.

Hiob 23:16 In-Context

14 Denn er wird vollenden, was über mich bestimmt ist; und dergleichen ist vieles bei ihm

15 Darum bin ich bestürzt vor seinem Angesicht; erwäge ich's, so erschrecke ich vor ihm.

16 Ja, Gott hat mein Herz verzagt gemacht, und der Allmächtige mich in Bestürzung versetzt.

17 Denn nicht wegen der Finsternis bin ich vernichtet, noch weil Dunkelheit mein Angesicht bedeckt hat.