Job 23:16

For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: For God maketh my heart soft - Prostrates my strength, deprives me of courage, so that I sink beneath my burden, and I am troubled at the thought of the Almighty, the self-sufficient and eternal Being.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For God maketh my heart soft - That is, “faint.” He takes away my strength; compare the notes at Isaiah 7:4 . This effect was produced on Job by...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For (k) God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: (k) That I should not be without fear.
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. soft . faint, or unnerved. Compare Deuteronomy 20:3 . Isaiah 7:4 . THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew Shaddai. App-4.
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For God maketh my heart soft, &c.— For God causeth my heart to melt; the Almighty terrifieth me; Job 23:17 , Yet so, that my mind doth not...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: Soft - faint. Hath melted my courage. Here again Job's language is that of Jesus...
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 dea...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Soft] RV 'faint.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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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 appoint...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For God maketh my heart soft ,.... Not tender as Josiah's was, 2 Kings 22:19 , or as the heart of every penitent is, when God makes it humble and...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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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 th...
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 l...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Comfort in His Integrity. B. C. 1520....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Biblical Illustrator

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Wells of Living Water Commentary

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Soft — He hath bruised, and broken, or melted it, so that I have no spirit in me.

¹⁶ For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

Related Commentaries of Job 23:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 23:16