Job 23:8

Behold, if I go to the East, he is not there: if to the West, yet I can not perceiue him:

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

In Context

7There the righteous might reason with him, so I shoulde be deliuered for euer from my Iudge.

9If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him.

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Cross References

Job 9:11Lo, when he goeth by me, I see him not: and when he passeth by, I perceiue him not.

Job 35:14Although thou sayest to God, Thou wilt not regard it, yet iudgement is before him: trust thou in him.

Psalms 13:1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. Howe long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for euer? howe long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Isaiah 45:15Verely thou, O God, hidest thy selfe, O God, the Sauiour of Israel.

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 →

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