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.
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
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
so should
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
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
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.
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
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.