Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 23:16
Soft — He hath bruised, and broken, or melted it, so that I have no spirit in me.
Soft — He hath bruised, and broken, or melted it, so that I have no spirit in me.
Verse Job 23:16. _FOR GOD MAKETH MY HEART SOFT_] Prostrates my _strength_, deprives me of _courage_, so that I sink beneath my burden, and I am troubled at the thought of the Almighty, the self-suffic...
FOR GOD MAKETH MY HEART SOFT - That is, “faint.” He takes away my strength; compare the notes at Isaiah 7:4. This effect was produced on Job by the contemplation of the eternal plan and the power of G...
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...
GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. SOFT. faint, or unnerved. Compare Deuteronomy 20:3.Isaiah 7:4. THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew Shaddai. App-4....
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....
_For God maketh_ Or, AND God. The emphasis is on _God_; it is God, the thought that God should act in this unrighteous manner that makes his heart "soft," i. e. makes him faint-hearted and terror-stri...
FOR GOD MAKETH MY HEART SOFT, &C.— _For God causeth my heart to melt; the Almighty terrifieth me;_ Job 23:17, _Yet so, that my mind doth not despond for that darkness, even that thick darkness, with w...
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:...
_FOR GOD MAKETH MY HEART SOFT, AND THE ALMIGHTY TROUBLETH ME:_ Soft - faint. Hath melted my courage. Here again Job's language is that of Jesus Christ (Psalms 22:14, "My heart is like wax: it is melt...
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...
SOFT] RV 'faint.'...
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...
FOR GOD MAKETH MY HEART SOFT. — That is, “He has made it full of apprehension and fear, and the Almighty hath troubled me in these two respects: that He did not cut me off before the darkness, so that...
וְ֭ אֵל הֵרַ֣ךְ לִבִּ֑י וְ֝ שַׁדַּ֗י הִבְהִיל
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...
For (k) God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: (k) That I should not be without fear....
(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...
FOR GOD MAKETH MY HEART SOFT,.... Not tender as Josiah's was, 2 Kings 22:19, or as the heart of every penitent is, when God makes it humble and contrite by his spirit and grace, or takes away the sto...
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: Ver. 16. _For God maketh my heart soft_] Methinks I feel it fall asunder in my bosom like drops of water, and dissolved with manifold affl...
_For God maketh my heart soft_ Or, _tender;_ he hath bruised and broken, or melted it, so that I have no spirit, or courage, or strength in me: so this, or the like phrase, frequently signifies. There...
JOB DESPAIRS OF FINDING VINDICATION IN THIS LIFE...
For God maketh my heart soft, causing it to be faint, to lose all courage, AND THE ALMIGHTY TROUBLETH ME, plunging him into confusion, anguish, and terror,...
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...
Contrary to the claims of Eliphaz, Job is not terrified by reaping the consequences of supposed hidden sins, rather, Job is terrified by God's power and His workings. "Despite Job's bold demand for. c...
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...
SOFT, or _tender_. He hath bruised, and broken, or melted it, so that I have no spirit, nor courage, nor strength in me, as this or the like phrase is used, Deuteronomy 20:3 Psalms 39:11 Isaiah 7:4...
Job 23:16 God H410 heart H3820 weak H7401 (H8689) Almighty H7706 terrifies H926 (H8689) For God -...
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...
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...
_God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me._ GOD THE SOFTENER OF THE HEART This is not a Jewish idea. The dispensation of Moses was a religious state, in which the harder features of th...
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...
Isaiah 57:16; Isaiah 6:5; Job 27:2; Joel 1:15; Psalms 22:14;...
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...