Job 23:16

God has weakened my heart, and the Almighty has confused me.

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In The King James Version

For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

In Context

15And, for this reason, I have been troubled at his presence, and, when I consider him, I am approached by fear.

17Yet I have not perished because of the threatening darkness, nor has gloom covered my face.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 20:3‘Listen, O Israel! Today you engage in a battle against your enemies. Do not let your heart be overwhelmed with fear. Do not be apprehensive. Do not yield. You should have no dread of them.

Job 16:12God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.

Isaiah 6:5And I said: “Woe to me! For I have remained silent. For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live in the midst of a people having unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Jeremiah 51:46For otherwise, your heart may faint, and you may be afraid at the news that is heard in the land. And the news will arrive within a year, and after that year more news will arrive. And iniquity will be in the land, and one ruler will be over another ruler.

Matthew Henry on Job 23:14-17

Job's Comfort in His Integrity. ( b. c. 1520.) 13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. 14 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. 15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. 16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. Some make Job to complain here that… Read the whole commentary →

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