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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Job 23

Chapter 23

Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

my complaint

6:2 10:1 Lamentations 3:19,20 Psalms 77:2-9

stroke

Heb. hand. heavier.

11:6

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

Oh that

13:3 16:21 40:1-5 Isaiah 26:8 Jeremiah 14:7

where

Isaiah 55:6,7 2 Corinthians 5:19,20 Hebrews 4:6

that I might

31:35-37

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

order

13:18 37:19 Psalms 43:1 Isaiah 43:26

fill my mouth

Genesis 18:25-32 32:12 Exodus 32:12,13 Numbers 14:13-19 Joshua 7:8,9 Psalms 25:11 Daniel 9:18,19

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

know

10:2 13:22,23 42:2-6 1 Corinthians 4:3,4

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

plead

9:19,33,34 13:21 Isaiah 27:4,8 Ezekiel 20:33,35

but he would

Psalms 138:3 2 Corinthians 12:9,10

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

There

Isaiah 1:18 Jeremiah 3:5 12:1

so should

9:15 Romans 3:19-22 8:1,33,34

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

9:11 Psalms 10:1 13:1-3 Isaiah 45:15 1 Timothy 6:16

On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

he hideth himself

Psalms 89:46 Isaiah 8:17

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

he knoweth

Genesis 18:19 2 Kings 20:3 Psalms 1:6 139:1-3 John 21:17 2 Timothy 2:19

the way that I take

Heb. the way that is with me. he hath.

1:11,12 2:5,6 Deuteronomy 8:2 Psalms 17:3 66:10 Proverbs 17:3 Zechariah 13:9 Malachi 3:2,3 Hebrews 11:17 James 1:2-4,12 1 Peter 1:7

I shall

42:5-8

My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

My foot

1 Samuel 12:2-5 Psalms 18:20-24 44:18 Acts 20:18,19,33,34 2 Corinthians 1:12 1 Thessalonians 2:10

his way

17:9 Psalms 36:3 125:5 Zephaniah 1:6 Luke 8:13-15 Romans 2:7 2 Peter 2:20-22

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Neither

John 6:66-69 8:31 Acts 14:22 Hebrews 10:38,39 1 John 2:19

I have esteemed

Heb. hid, or, laid up.

22:22 Psalms 19:9,10 119:11,103,127 Jeremiah 15:16 John 4:32,34 1 Peter 2:2

necessary food

or, appointed portion.

Luke 12:42,46

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

who can

9:12,13 11:10 12:14 34:29 Numbers 23:19,20 Ecclesiastes 1:15 3:14 Romans 9:19 James 1:17

and what

Psalms 115:3 135:6 Proverbs 19:21 Isaiah 14:24-27 46:10 Daniel 4:35 Ephesians 1:9-11

For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

appointed

7:3 Micah 6:9 1 Thessalonians 3:3 5:9 1 Peter 2:8

many such

Psalms 77:19 97:2 Isaiah 40:27,28 Romans 11:33

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

3 10:15 31:23 Psalms 77:3 119:120 Habakkuk 3:16

For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

For God

Psalms 22:14 Isaiah 6:5 57:16

Almighty

27:2 Ruth 1:20 Psalms 88:16 Joel 1:15

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

cut off

6:9 2 Kings 22:20 Isaiah 57:1

the darkness from

15:22 18:6,18 19:8 22:11