Job 23:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

Job 23:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 89:46
How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Topics

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

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. 9)

9. Rather, “To the north.” work--God’s glorious works are especially seen towards the north region of the sky by one in the northern hemisphere. The antithesis is between God working and yet not being beheld: as in Job 9:11, between “He goeth by,” and “I see Him not.” If the Hebrew bears it, the parallelism to the second clause is better suited by translating, as Umbreit, “doth hide himself”; but…