Job 23

Job

1 Then Job replied:
2 “Even today my complaint is bitter; his hand[a] is heavy in spite of[b] my groaning.
3 If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling!
4 I would state my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
5 I would find out what he would answer me, and consider what he would say to me.
6 Would he vigorously oppose me? No, he would not press charges against me.
7 There the upright can establish their innocence before him, and there I would be delivered forever from my judge.
8 “But if I go to the east, he is not there; if I go to the west, I do not find him.
9 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.
10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
11 My feet have closely followed his steps; I have kept to his way without turning aside.
12 I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.
13 “But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? He does whatever he pleases.
14 He carries out his decree against me, and many such plans he still has in store.
15 That is why I am terrified before him; when I think of all this, I fear him.
16 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.
17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

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Cross References 29

  • 1. S Job 7:11
  • 2. S 1 Samuel 1:10; S Job 6:3
  • 3. Psalms 6:6; Psalms 32:4; Jeremiah 45:3; Ezekiel 21:7
  • 4. Deuteronomy 4:29
  • 5. S Job 13:18
  • 6. S Job 9:15
  • 7. S Job 11:5
  • 8. S Job 9:4
  • 9. S Job 6:4
  • 10. S Job 1:1
  • 11. S Genesis 3:8; S Job 9:3; Job 13:3
  • 12. S Job 6:29
  • 13. S Job 9:11
  • 14. Job 1:1; Job 27:6; Job 31:6; Job 36:7; Psalms 7:9; Psalms 11:5; Psalms 34:15; Psalms 37:18; Psalms 94:11; Psalms 119:168; Psalms 146:8
  • 15. S Job 7:18; Psalms 66:10; Psalms 139:1-3
  • 16. S Job 6:29; S Job 22:15; S Psalms 12:6; 1 Peter 1:7
  • 17. Psalms 17:5
  • 18. Job 31:7; Psalms 40:4; Psalms 44:18; Psalms 119:51,59,157; Psalms 125:5; Jeremiah 11:20
  • 19. S Job 6:10
  • 20. S Job 15:11; Matthew 4:4; John 4:32,34
  • 21. S Job 9:3
  • 22. S Job 10:13; Isaiah 55:11; Psalms 115:3
  • 23. 1 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 Peter 4:12
  • 24. S Genesis 45:3
  • 25. S Joshua 24:14; Psalms 34:9; Psalms 36:1; Psalms 111:10; Proverbs 1:7; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Ecclesiastes 12:13; 2 Corinthians 5:11
  • 26. S Deuteronomy 20:3; Psalms 22:14; Jeremiah 51:46
  • 27. Job 27:2
  • 28. S Exodus 3:6; Revelation 6:16
  • 29. S Job 3:6; S Job 19:8

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew /"the hand on me"
  • [b]. Or "heavy on me in"

Job 23 Commentaries

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