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Job 23:4

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"I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments."

  • Job 23:4 - Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WOULD ORDER MY CAUSE BEFORE HIM - Compare the notes at Isaiah 43:26. That is, I would arrange my arguments, or plead my cause, as one does in a court of justice. I would suggest the considerations w...

  • Job 23:4 - Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Job 23:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Job still rebels, though he does his best to repress his complaints (Job 23:2). Translate as _mg._ Job 23:6 f. shows the gain Job has got. Job 23:8. He is still in quest of God, but now is convinced t...

  • Job 23:4 - Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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 23:4 - College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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:...

  • Job 23:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _I WOULD ORDER MY CAUSE BEFORE HIM, AND FILL MY MOUTH WITH ARGUMENTS._ Order - state methodically (Job 13:3; Job 13:18; Isaiah 43:26). FILL ... - I would have abundance of arguments to adduce....

  • Job 23:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 23:4 - EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Job 23:4 - ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֶעֶרְכָ֣ה לְ פָנָ֣יו מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּ֝ פִ֗י אֲמַלֵּ֥א תֹוכָחֹֽות׃...

  • Job 23:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Job 23:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • Job 23:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Job 23:4 - Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) В¶ Then Job answered and said, (2) Even today 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 wo...

  • Job 23:4 - John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • Job 23:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I WOULD ORDER [MY] CAUSE BEFORE HIM,.... Either, as a praying person, direct his prayer to him, and set it in order before him, see Psalms 5:3; or else as pleading in his own defence, and in justifica...

  • Job 23:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. Ver. 4. _I would order my cause before him_] I would not stick to approach to his tribunal, there to plead my cause (not against...

  • Job 23:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _O that I knew where I might find him!_ Namely, God, as his friends well knew. Thou advisest me to acquaint myself with him, I desire nothing so much as his acquaintance and presence; but, alas! he hi...

  • Job 23:4 - Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB DESIRES A JUDICIAL DECISION OF GOD...

  • Job 23:4 - Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Job 23:4 - Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Here is another courtroom scene (Job 9:13-21). Job is no longer afraid that God would refuse to hear him or trip him up. He would prepare his case and present it to God....

  • Job 23:4 - Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 Job appeals from his friends to the just judgement of God. He wants to have his cause tried quickly. Blessed be God, we may know where to find him. He is in Christ, reconciling the world unto hims...

  • Job 23:4 - Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I WOULD orderly declare the things which concern and prove the right of my cause; not only debating the controversy between my friends and me, concerning my sincerity or hypocrisy before God, as a wit...

  • Job 23:4 - Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 23:4 present H6186 (H8799) case H4941 before H6440 fill H4390 (H8762) mouth H6310 arguments H8433 order - Job 13:18, Job 37:19; Psalms 43:1; Isaiah 43:26 fill my mouth - Genesis

  • Job 23:4 - Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Job 23:4 - Summarized Bible Commentary

    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 23:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • Job 23:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

    _Oh, that I knew where I might find Him._ THE CRY FOR RESTORED RELATIONS WITH GOD The language of the text is exclusively that of men on the earth,--although it also characterises the state and feel...

  • Job 23:4 - The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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 23:4 - The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • Job 23:4 - The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Job 23:4 - Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Job 23:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 9:18; Daniel 9:19; Exodus 32:12; Exodus 32:13; Genesis 18:25; Genesis 32:12; Isaiah 43:26; Job 13:18; Job 37:19; Joshua 7:8;...

  • Job 23:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

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