Job 23:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

Job 23:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 9:11
Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
Psalms 10:1
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
1 Timothy 6:16
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Job 35:14
Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
Psalms 13:1-3
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? …

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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. 8)

8. But I wish in vain. For “behold,” &c. forward ... backward--rather, “to the east--to the west.” The Hebrew geographers faced the east, that is, sunrise: not the north, as we do. So “before” means east: “behind,” west (so the Hindus). Para, “before”--east: Apara, “behind”--west: Daschina, “the right hand”--south: Bama, “left”--north. A similar reference to sunrise appears in the name Asia, “sunr…