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Job 23:15
Therefore am I troubled at His presence, trembling before the face of God; when I consider, I am afraid of Him, aghast at His unfathomable decree, which laid such suffering upon him.
Therefore am I troubled at His presence, trembling before the face of God; when I consider, I am afraid of Him, aghast at His unfathomable decree, which laid such suffering upon him.
Verse Job 23:15. _THEREFORE AM I TROUBLED_] I do not as yet see an end to my afflictions: he has not exhausted his means of trial; therefore, when I consider this, I am afraid of him....
THEREFORE AM I TROUBLED AT HIS PRESENCE - The doctrine of divine purposes and decrees “is fitted to impress the mind with awe.” So vast are the plans of God; so uncertain to us is it what will be deve...
CHAPTER S 23-24 JOB'S REPLY _ 1. O that I knew where I may find Him (Job 23:1)_ 2. Trusting yet doubting (Job 23:10) 3. Hath God failed? (Job 24:1) 4. Job's further testimony as to the wicked ...
But God follows His own will and does what He pleases. Therefore Job is afraid. In Job 23:13 a read with Duhm, But he has decreed. Job 23:14 points out that Job's case does not stand alone. Job 23:1...
AFRAID. See note on Deuteronomy 28:66....
Job's Reply to the Third Speech of Eliphaz. Job continues to miss any Moral Government of the World by God As before, in the two preceding cycles of debate, Job's mind is too much absorbed in contemp...
Job's innocency though known to God is disregarded by Him. He is unchangeable in His resolution, and He has resolved to destroy him....
It is this thought of the moral riddle which his history presents, and of the moral iniquity that characterizes God's government, that perplexes and paralyses Job. _at his presence_ Or, BEFORE HIM, i...
B. JOB'S PERSISTENT DESIRE OR VALUE OF ARGUING WITH GOD? (Job 23:1, Job 24:25) 1. Job has honored God and obeyed his word, but God will not give him a hearing; He intentionally avoids him. (Job 23:...
_THEREFORE AM I TROUBLED AT HIS PRESENCE: WHEN I CONSIDER, I AM AFRAID OF HIM._ God's decrees, impossible to be resisted, and leaving us in the dark as to what may come next, are calculated to fill t...
JOB'S SEVENTH SPEECH (JOB 23, 24) Job makes but slight reference to the remarks of Eliphaz, but continues to brood over the mysteries of God's dealings with himself (Job 23), and with mankind (Job 24...
Job loved God. But Job was still worried. He did not know God’s plans. And Job was afraid of the future. Job did not need to be afraid. God’s plans for Job were wonderful (see Job chapter 42). And G...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 23 JOB SPEAKS AGAIN JOB WA...
THEREFORE AM I TROUBLED AT HIS PRESENCE. — _i.e.,_ invisible though it be, and undiscoverable as He is on every hand (Job 23:8), Job is in a strait betwixt two (Philippians 1:23). The victim of an eve...
עַל ־כֵּ֭ן מִ פָּנָ֣יו אֶבָּהֵ֑ל אֶ֝תְבֹּונֵ֗ן...
XX. WHERE IS ELOAH? Job 23:1; Job 24:1 Job SPEAKS THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some reference to his whole condition alike of body and mind. "Again today, my plain...
“HE KNOWETH THE WAY THAT I TAKE” Job 23:1 This chapter is threaded by a sublime faith. Job admitted that his complaint seemed rebellious, but God's hand had been heavy on him. From the misunderstand...
In answer to Eliphaz, ob took no notice of the terrible charges made against him. That is postponed to a later speech. Rather, he discussed Eliphai conception of his view of God as being absent from t...
(13) В¶ 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)...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
THEREFORE AM I TROUBLED AT HIS PRESENCE,.... Not at his gracious presence, which he wanted, and every good man desires; but at his appearance as an enemy, as he apprehended him, laying and continuing...
Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. Ver. 15. _Therefore am I troubled at his presence_] At the consideration of his formidable power and majesty, I am troubl...
_He performeth_, &c. Hebrew, ישׁלום חקי, _jashlim chukki, he will perfect_, or _finish, my appointed portion_, that is, those calamities which he hath allotted to me for my portion. _And many such thi...
HE LONGS TO LAY HIS CASE BEFORE GOD (vv.1-9) What Eliphaz has said to Job was hardly worth an answer, so that Job practically ignores this and lays before his friends the actual distresses that occu...
Now Job seems to backtrack on his desire to appear before such. majestic and sovereign God. The invisible and mysterious workings of God are unsettling to Job....
13-17 As Job does not once question but that his trials are from the hand of God, and that there is no such thing as chance, how does he account for them? The principle on which he views them is, tha...
THEREFORE; in consideration of his glorious majesty, and sovereign and irresistible power, by which he can do whatsoever pleaseth him, without giving any account of his matters. AT HIS PRESENCE; when...
Job 23:15 terrified H926 (H8735) presence H6440 consider H995 (H8709) afraid H6342 (H8799)...
Job is in great physical pain through the sore boils that cover him from head to foot; he is still smarting under all the bereavements and losses he has sustained; and he is somewhat irritated by the...
We shall read, this evening, in the Book of Job. May the good Spirit instruct us during our reading! Here we shall see Job in a very melancholy plight, grievously distressed in mind, and yet, for all...
Always remember, dear friends, that one of the great lessons of the Book of Job is this, that we may never judge a man's character by his condition. The best of men may have the most of suffering and...
CONTENTS: Job again answers. He longs for God. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: Those who keep the way of the Lord may comfort themselves with the thought that they are being tried,...
Job 23:3. _Oh that I knew where I might find him._ Job sighs for the favours conferred on certain patriarchs, whom God had met. The living oracle was with Noah after the flood; it was with Abraham in...
_When I consider, I am afraid of Him._ GOD’S DISPLEASURE A SOURCE OF FEAR Notwithstanding the general evenness of Job’s temper, and his quiet submission to Divine providence, there were two things wh...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 23:1 Job is tired of arguing his case before his friends. In this reply, he ignores most of Eliphaz’s most recent response. Instead, he expresses his desire to stand personally before...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 23:13 Although he has carefully considered his way (vv. Job 23:10), Job knows his future depends on what the Lord APPOINTS to happen (vv....
_JOB’S THIRD REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ Ceases directly to address his friends. His present speech rather a soliloquy. Takes no notice of the charges laid against him by Eliphaz. Laments the want of access to...
EXPOSITION VERSES 1-24:25 Job replies to Eliphaz in a speech of no great length, which, though it occupies two chapters, runs to only forty-two verses. He begins by justifying the vehemence of his co...
And so Job answers him and he says, Every day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning (Job 23:1-2). Really, what's happened to me is even worse than I'm complaining. I'm not eve...
Habakkuk 3:16; Job 10:15; Job 23:3; Job 31:23; Psalms 119:120;...
JOB CHALLENGED BY SATAN Job 1:1 _-Job 23:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We begin today a series of studies on one of the most interesting characters of the Bible. He is Job, the man of patience. We remember...