Job 23:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

Job 23:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 4:3-4
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. …
Job 13:22-23
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. …
Job 10:2
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job 42:2-6
I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. …

Topics

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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. 5)

5. he--emphatic: it little matters what man may say of me, if only I know what God judges of me.