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Job 23:2 open_in_new
To — day — Even at this time, notwithstanding all your pretended consolations. Stroke — The hand or stroke of God upon me. Groaning — Doth exceed my complaints.
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Job 23:3 open_in_new
O — I desire nothing more than his acquaintance and presence; but alas, he hides his face from me. Seat — To his throne or judgment — seat to plead my cause before him.
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Job 23:5 open_in_new
Know — If he should discover to me any secret sins, for which he contendeth with me, I would humble myself before him, and accept of the punishment of mine iniquity.
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Job 23:6 open_in_new
No — He would not use his power against me, but for me; by enabling me to plead my cause, and giving sentence according to that clemency, which he uses towards his children.
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Job 23:7 open_in_new
There — At that throne of grace, where God lays aside his majesty, and judges according to his wonted clemency. Dispute — Humbly propounding the grounds of their confidence. So — Upon such a fair and equal hearing. Delivered — From the damnatory sentence of God. This and some such expressions of Job cannot be excused from irreverence towards God, for which God afterwards reproves him, and Job abhorreth himself.
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Job 23:8 open_in_new
Is not — As a judge to hear and determine my causes, otherwise he knew God was essentially present in all places.
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Job 23:10 open_in_new
Gold — Which comes out of the furnace pure from all dross.
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Job 23:11 open_in_new
Steps — The steps or paths which God hath appointed men to walk in.
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Job 23:14 open_in_new
Performeth — Those calamities which he hath allotted to me. And — There are many such examples of God's proceeding with men.
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Job 23:16 open_in_new
Soft — He hath bruised, and broken, or melted it, so that I have no spirit in me.
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Job 23:17 open_in_new
Because — God did not cut me off by death. Before — These miseries came upon me. Covered — By hiding me in the grave.