Job 23:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 23:12 —

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Jeremiah 15:16
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
Psalms 119:103
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Psalms 119:11
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
John 4:34
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Psalms 19:9-10
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-12)

Here, I. Job complains that he cannot understand the meaning of God’s providences concerning him, but is quite at a loss about them (Job 23:8, 9): I go forward, but he is not there, etc. Eliphaz had bid him acquaint himself with God. “So I would, with all my heart,” says Job, “If I knew how to get acquainted with him.” He had himself a great desire to appear before God, and get a hearing of his ca…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. esteemed--rather, “laid up,” namely, as a treasure found (Mt 13:44; Psa 119:11); alluding to the words of Eliphaz (Job 22:22). There was no need to tell me so; I have done so already (Jr 15:16). necessary--“Appointed portion” (of food; as in Pr 30:8). Umbreit and Maurer translate, “More than my law,” my own will, in antithesis to “the words of His mouth” (Joh 6:38). Probably under the general…