Job 23:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

Job 23:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Job 22:11
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
Job 15:22
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

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. 17)

17. Because I was not taken away by death from the evil to come (literally, “from before the face of the darkness,” Is 57:1). Alluding to the words of Eliphaz (Job 22:11), “darkness,” that is, calamity. cut off--rather, in the Arabic sense, brought to the land of silence; my sad complaint hushed in death [Umbreit]. “Darkness” in the second clause, not the same Hebrew word as in the first, “cloud,”…