Job 23:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Job 23:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Neither have I gone back - I have not put away or rejected. The commandment of his lips - That which he has spoken, or which has proceeded out of his mouth. I have esteemed - Margin, “hid...

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• Job 23:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have (g) esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food]. (g) His word is more precious to me than the meat with which the...

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• Job 23:12 - 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 23:8-12 . He is still in quest of God, but now i...

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• Job 23:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  my necessary food. Hebrew my own law. my appointed portion: i.e. my ordinary allowance; "law" being put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Genus), App-6, for what is allowed by it. Compare G...

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• Job 23:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 475 JOB’S LOVE TO THE WORD OF GOD Job 23:12 . I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food . WHENCE arose this remarkable assertion? Was it a spontaneous and un...

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• Job 23:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food . The commandment of his lips - The written law that proceeded from his...

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• Job 23:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  My foot hath held, &c.— The division of this book into verses has obscured the sense: these two should be read thus, Job 23:11 . My foot hath trodden in his steps; I have kept his way, and ha...

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• Job 23:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. Esteemed - rather, laid up-namely, as a treasure found ( Matthew...

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• Job 23:12 - 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 (...

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• Job 23:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. — Comp. John 4:32-34 . Or, I have treasured up the words, &c., according to the statute prescribed to me, or from my own...

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• Job 23:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XX. WHERE IS ELOAH? Job 23:1-17 ; Job 24:1-25 Job SPEAKS THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some reference to his whole condition alike of body and mind. "Again to...

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• Job 23:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “He Knoweth the Way That I Take” Job 23:1-17 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 misun...

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• Job 23:12 - 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...

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• Job 23:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (12) Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. What a lovely account doth Job give of himself here, that the word...

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• Job 23:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips ,.... From any of the commandments his lips had uttered; meaning not the ten commandments given to Israel, which perhaps as yet were not giv...

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• Job 23:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food]. Ver. 12. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips...

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• Job 23:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  My foot hath held his steps Either the steps or ways in which God himself walks; the paths of justice, mercy, and holiness, wherein Job had made it his care to walk with , or after God, as the p...

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• Job 23:12 - L. 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...

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• Job 23:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Mystery of Providence. B. C. 1520.       8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; an...

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• Job 23:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Neither have I gone back, i.e. not turned aside to any crooked or sinful path or course of life, human infirmity excepted. I have esteemed, Heb. I have hid , or laid it up, as men do their best...

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• Job 23:12 - 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...

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• Job 23:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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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• Job 23:12 - 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...

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• Job 23:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  My foot hath held His steps. The fair portrait of a saint Job has, in this part of his self-defence, sketched a fine picture of a man perfect and upright before God. He has set before us the im...

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• Job 23:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 o...

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• Job 23:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Despairs of Finding Vindication in this Life

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• Job 23:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 2:19 ; 1 Peter 2:2 ; Acts 14:22 ; Hebrews 10:38 ; Hebrews 10:39 ; Jeremiah 15:16 ; Job 22:22 ; John 4:32 ; John 4:34 ; John 6:66-69 ; John 8:31 ; Luke 12:42 ; Luke 12:46 ; Psalms...

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• Job 23:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Job Challenged by Satan Job 1:1 - Job 23:1-17 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....

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