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Job Chapter 23

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Job

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In this chapter Job’s friends persist in urging him to accept his suffering and to trust God, despite his continued distress. The passage underscores themes of divine justice and the limits of human wisdom.

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(1) Then Job answered and said,
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Job 1:5Job 42:8

(2) Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
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Job 6:2Job 10:1Lamentations 3:19Lamentations 3:20Psalms 77:2Psalms 77:3Psalms 77:4Psalms 77:5Psalms 77:6Psalms 77:7Psalms 77:8Psalms 77:9

(3) Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
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Job 13:3Job 16:21Job 40:1Job 40:2Job 40:3Job 40:4Job 40:5Isaiah 26:8Jeremiah 14:7Isaiah 55:6Isaiah 55:7II Corinthians 5:19

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Ecclesiastes 8:17

(4) I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
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Job 13:18Job 37:19Psalms 43:1Isaiah 43:26Genesis 18:25Genesis 18:26Genesis 18:27Genesis 18:28Genesis 18:29Genesis 18:30Genesis 18:31Genesis 18:32

(5) I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
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Job 10:2Job 13:22Job 13:23Job 42:2Job 42:3Job 42:4Job 42:5Job 42:6I Corinthians 4:3I Corinthians 4:4

(6) Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
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Job 9:19Job 9:33Job 9:34Job 13:21Isaiah 27:4Isaiah 27:8Ezekiel 20:33Ezekiel 20:35Psalms 138:3II Corinthians 12:9II Corinthians 12:10

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Judges 6:31

(7) There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
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Isaiah 1:18Jeremiah 3:5Jeremiah 12:1Job 9:15Romans 3:19Romans 3:20Romans 3:21Romans 3:22Romans 8:1Romans 8:33Romans 8:34

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Genesis 18:25Judges 5:11Ezekiel 3:21Matthew 10:41John 7:24Judges 2:18

(8) Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
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Job 9:11Psalms 10:1Psalms 13:1Psalms 13:2Psalms 13:3Isaiah 45:15I Timothy 6:16

(9) On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
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Psalms 89:46Isaiah 8:17

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II Samuel 14:14Ruth 4:6Ecclesiastes 1:15Isaiah 38:18Isaiah 44:18Isaiah 59:1

(10) But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
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Genesis 18:19II Kings 20:3Psalms 1:6Psalms 139:1Psalms 139:2Psalms 139:3John 21:17II Timothy 2:19Job 1:11Job 1:12Job 2:5Job 2:6

(11) My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
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I Samuel 12:2I Samuel 12:3I Samuel 12:4I Samuel 12:5Psalms 18:20Psalms 18:21Psalms 18:22Psalms 18:23Psalms 18:24Psalms 44:18Acts 20:18Acts 20:19

(12) Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
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John 6:66John 6:67John 6:68John 6:69John 8:31Acts 14:22Hebrews 10:38Hebrews 10:39I John 2:19Job 22:22Psalms 19:9Psalms 19:10

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Genesis 41:48Numbers 9:23I John 2:7

(13) But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
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Job 9:12Job 9:13Job 11:10Job 12:14Job 34:29Numbers 23:19Numbers 23:20Ecclesiastes 1:15Ecclesiastes 3:14Romans 9:19James 1:17Psalms 115:3

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Ezekiel 33:11

(14) For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
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Job 7:3Micah 6:9I Thessalonians 3:3I Thessalonians 5:9I Peter 2:8Psalms 77:19Psalms 97:2Isaiah 40:27Isaiah 40:28Romans 11:33

(15) Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
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Job 23:3Job 10:15Job 31:23Psalms 77:3Psalms 119:120Habakkuk 3:16

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II Samuel 16:19Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6

(16) For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
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Psalms 22:14Isaiah 6:5Isaiah 57:16Job 27:2Ruth 1:20Psalms 88:16Joel 1:15

(17) Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
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Job 6:9II Kings 22:20Isaiah 57:1Job 15:22Job 18:6Job 18:18Job 19:8Job 22:11

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Job 10:22Matthew 6:23I John 2:11Ecclesiastes 6:4Exodus 10:21Deuteronomy 4:11

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