Job 23:17
Yet I'm still here despite the dark—even though I can't see through the utter darkness.”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
In Context
16God has made me faint-hearted; the Almighty has scared me to death.
Cross References
2 Kings 22:20All this will not happen until after you have died, and you will die in peace. You will not see all the disaster that I'm going to bring down on this place.” They went back to the king and gave him her response.
Job 15:22They don't believe they will escape the darkness—they know a sword is waiting for them.
Job 18:18They are thrown out of light into darkness, driven from the world.
Job 22:11That's why it's so dark you cannot see, and why you feel like you're drowning.
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 →