Job 23:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Job 23:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Because I was not cut off before the darkness - Before these calamities came upon me. Because I was not taken away in the midst of prosperity, and while I was enjoying his smiles and the proofs o...

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• Job 23:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Because I was not cut off before the (l) darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face. (l) He shows the cause for his fear, which is, that he being in trouble sees no end, nor yet k...

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• Job 23:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  But God follows His own will and does what He pleases. Therefore Job is afraid. In Job 23:13 a read with Duhm, But he has decreed. Job 23:14 points out that Job's case does not stand alone....

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• Job 23:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Because, &c. See translation below. darkness. Hebrew. hashak . See note on Job 3:6 . darkness. Hebrew. 'ophel . See note on Job 3:6 .

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• Job 23:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. Because I was not cut off - "O, why can I not draw darkness over my face? Why may not thick darknes...

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• Job 23:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. Because I was not taken away by death from the evil to come (literally, from before the face o...

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• Job 23:17 - 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 23:17 - 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 23:17 - 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 23:17 - 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 23:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (13) В¶ But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. (14) For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. (15)...

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• Job 23:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Because I was not cut off before the darkness ,.... That is, it was amazing to him, and troubled him when he thought of it, that he was not cut off by death, before the darkness of afflictions, or t...

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• Job 23:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face. Ver. 17. Because I was not cut off before the darkness ] i.e. The afflictions that now are upo...

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• Job 23:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For God maketh my heart soft Or, tender; he hath bruised and broken, or melted it, so that I have no spirit, or courage, or strength in me: so this, or the like phrase, frequently signifies. Ther...

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• Job 23:17 - 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 23:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job's Comfort in His Integrity. B. C. 1520.       13 But he is in one mind, and who can...

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• Job 23:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Because I was not cut off; because God did not cut me off by death. Before the darkness , i.e. before these dark and dismal miseries came upon me. Or, before the face , or by reason of the darkn...

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• Job 23:17 - 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 23:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Job is in great physical pain through the sore boils that cover him from head to foot; he is still smarting under all the bereavements and losses he has sustained; and he is somewhat irritated by the...

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• Job 23:17 - 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 23:17 - 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 23:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Despairs of Finding Vindication in this Life

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• Job 23:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 22:20 ; Isaiah 57:1 ; Job 15:22 ; Job 18:18 ; Job 18:6 ; Job 19:8 ; Job 22:11 ; Job 6:9

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• Job 23:17 - 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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• Job 23:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Because — God did not cut me off by death. Before — These miseries came upon me. Covered — By hiding me in the grave.

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