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.