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Verse Job 23:17. _BECAUSE I WAS NOT CUT OFF_] "O, why can I not draw
darkness over my face? Why may not thick darkness cover my face?" Mr.
_Good_. This verse should be read in connection with the prec...
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BECAUSE I WAS NOT CUT OFF BEFORE THE DARKNESS - Before these
calamities came upon me. Because I was not taken away in the midst of
prosperity, and while I was enjoying his smiles and the proofs of his...
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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 ...
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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...
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BECAUSE, &C. See translation below.
DARKNESS. Hebrew. _hashak_. See note on Job 3:6.
DARKNESS. Hebrew. _'ophel_. See note on Job 3:6....
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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...
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Job's innocency though known to God is disregarded by Him. He is
unchangeable in His resolution, and He has resolved to destroy him....
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This verse reads,
For I am not dismayed because of the darkness,
Nor because of myself whom thick darkness covereth.
The words refer back to the language of Eliphaz, ch. Job 22:11, "or
seest thou n...
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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:...
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_BECAUSE I WAS NOT CUT OFF BEFORE THE DARKNESS, NEITHER HATH HE
COVERED THE DARKNESS FROM MY FACE._
Because I was not taken away by death from the evil to come
(literally, from before the face of the...
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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...
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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...
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כִּֽי ־לֹ֣א נִ֭צְמַתִּי מִ פְּנֵי
־חֹ֑שֶׁךְ ו
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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Because I was not cut off before the (l) darkness, [neither] hath he
covered the darkness from my face.
(l) He shows the cause for his fear, which is, that he being in
trouble sees no end, nor yet kn...
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_Face. My afflictions have not yet taken away my life, as might have
been expected. (Haydock) --- I am less affected with my miseries, than
with the dread of God's presence, ver. 15, 16. (Calmet)_...
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(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)...
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REFLECTIONS
READER, I cannot beg a greater blessing from our gracious Covenant GOD
in CHRIST, either for you or for myself, than that a Spirit of grace
may be poured out upon us both, to lead us with...
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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...
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BECAUSE I WAS NOT CUT OFF BEFORE THE DARKNESS,.... That is, it was
amazing to him, and troubled him when he thought of it, that he was
not cut off by death, before the darkness of afflictions, or this...
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Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he
covered the darkness from my face.
Ver. 17. _Because I was not cut off before the darkness_] _i.e._ The
afflictions that now are upon...
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_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...
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because I was not cut off before the darkness, his calamity alone did
not strike him with dumb terror, NEITHER HATH HE COVERED THE DARKNESS
FROM MY FACE, he did not shrink back from his own face, thou...
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JOB DESPAIRS OF FINDING VINDICATION IN THIS LIFE...
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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...
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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...
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BECAUSE I WAS NOT CUT OFF; because God did not cut me off by death.
_Before the darkness_, i.e. before these dark and dismal miseries came
upon me. Or, _before the face_, or _by reason of the darkness...
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Job 23:17 off H6789 (H8738) presence H6440 darkness H2822 hide H3680
(H8765) darkness H652 face H6440
cut
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Kings 22:20; Isaiah 57:1; Job 15:22; Job 18:18; Job 18:6;...
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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...
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Because — God did not cut me off by death. Before — These miseries
came upon me. Covered — By hiding me in the grave....