Job 23:12
The command of His lips, and I do not depart. I have laid up above my allotted portion || The sayings of His mouth.
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11My foot has laid hold on His step, || I have kept His way, and do not turn aside,
13And He [is] in one [mind], || And who turns Him back? And His soul has desired—and He does [it].
Cross References
Job 6:10And yet it is my comfort || (And I exult in pain—He does not spare), || That I have not hidden || The sayings of the Holy One.
Job 33:9I [am] pure, without transgression, || I [am] innocent, and I have no iniquity.
Psalms 119:11I have hid Your saying in my heart, || That I do not sin before You.
Psalms 119:127Therefore I have loved Your commands || Above gold—even fine gold.
Luke 12:42And the LORD said, “Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord will set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure?
John 4:32and He said to them, “I have food to eat that you have not known.”
Matthew Henry on Job 23:9-13
Mystery of Providence. ( b. c. 1520.) 8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: 9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: 10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. 11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. 12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more… Read the whole commentary →