Job 23:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

Job 23:3 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 16:21
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: …
Job 13:3
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Job 31:35-37
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book. …
2 Corinthians 5:19-20
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. …

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Depravity of Man God Guidance Guilt Lord Majesty

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-7)

Job is confident that he has wrong done him by his friends, and therefore, ill as he is, he will not give up the cause, nor let them have the last word. Here, I. He justifies his own resentments of his trouble (Job 23:2): Even to day, I own, my complaint is bitter; for the affliction, the cause of the complaint, is so. There are wormwood and gall in the affliction and misery; my soul has them stil…

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

(vv. 3)

3. The same wish as in Job 13:3 (compare He 10:19-22). Seat--The idea in the Hebrew is a well-prepared throne (Psa 9:7).