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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....
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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...
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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 (Job...
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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:...
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AFRAID. See note on Deuteronomy 28:66....
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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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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:...
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_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...
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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...
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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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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...
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עַל ־כֵּ֭ן מִ פָּנָ֣יו אֶבָּהֵ֑ל
אֶ֝תְבֹּונֵ֗ן וְ אֶפְחַ֥ד
מִמֶּֽנּוּ׃...
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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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(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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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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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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....
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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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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...
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Job 23:15 terrified H926 (H8735) presence H6440 consider H995 (H8709)
afraid H6342 (H8799)
Job 23:3, Job 10:15, Job 31:23; Psalms 77:3, Psalms 119:120;...
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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...
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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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_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 w...
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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’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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Habakkuk 3:16; Job 10:15; Job 23:3; Job 31:23; Psalms 119:120; Psalms
77:3...
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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 remembe...