Job 23:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

Job 23:15 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 119:120
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
Psalms 77:3
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
Job 31:23
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
Job 23:3
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Job 10:15
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

Topics

Doubting Faith

Commentary

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

(vv. 13-17)

Some make Job to complain here that God dealt unjustly and unfairly with him in proceeding to punish him without the least relenting or relaxation, though he had such incontestable evidences to produce of his innocency. I am loth to think holy Job would charge the holy God with iniquity; but his complaint is indeed bitter and peevish, and he reasons himself into a sort of patience per force, which…

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

(vv. 15)

15. God’s decrees, impossible to be resisted, and leaving us in the dark as to what may come next, are calculated to fill the mind with holy awe [Barnes].