Job 23:8
If I go to the east, he's not there; if I go the west, I don't find him.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
In Context
7There a good person could reason with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.
9If he's working in the north, I don't perceive him; if he's moving south, I don't see him.
Cross References
Job 9:11But when he passes by me, I don't see him; when he moves on, he is invisible to me.
Job 35:14How much less will God hear you when you say he can't see you? Your case is before him, so you have to wait for him.
Psalms 13:1How long, Lord, are you going to forget me? Forever? How long will you turn away from me?
Isaiah 45:15Yet you are a God who hides himself, God of Israel, Savior.
Matthew Henry on Job 23:2-8
The Reply of Job to Eliphaz; Job Appeals from Man to God. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. 6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. 7 There the… Read the whole commentary →