Job 23:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Where I might find him, to wit, God, as his friends well knew, and the thing itself showeth. Thou biddest me acquaint myself with him, Job 22:21. I desire nothing more than his acquaintance and presence; but, alas, he hides his face from me that I cannot see him, nor come near him. To his seat, i.e. to his throne or judgment-seat, to plead my cause before him, as it here follows, Job 22:4, not upon terms of strict justice, but upon those terms of grace and mercy upon which God is pleased to deal with his sinful creatures: see before, Job 9:34,35 Job 16:21 17:3. And this my confidence may be some evidence that I am not such a gross hypocrite as you imagine me to be.

Job 23:3

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