God’s Word Translation
Job 23:16
16God has discouraged me. The Almighty has filled me with terror.
Job 23:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
- New International Version (NIV)God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;
- New King James Version (NKJV)For God made my heart weak, And the Almighty terrifies me;
Context of Job 23:16
14He will carry out ⌞his⌟ orders concerning me as he does with so many other things. 15That is why I’m terrified of him. When I think of it, I’m afraid of him. God has discouraged me. The Almighty has filled me with terror. 17But I am not silenced by the dark or by the thick darkness that covers my face.
Read all of Job 23Job 23:16 word by word
וְ֭אֵל הֵרַ֣ךְ לִבִּ֑י וְ֝שַׁדַּ֗י הִבְהִילָֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 23:16
- Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It has melted within me.
- Isaiah 6:5So I said, “Oh, no! I’m doomed. Every word that passes through my lips is sinful. I live among people with sinful lips. I have seen the king, the Lord of Armies!”
- Isaiah 57:16I will not accuse you forever. I will not be angry with you forever. Otherwise, the spirits, the lives of those I’ve made, would grow faint in my presence.
- Job 27:2“I swear an oath by God, the one who has taken away my rights, by the Almighty, who has made my life bitter:
- Ruth 1:20She answered them, “Don’t call me Naomi [Sweet]. Call me Mara [Bitter] because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.
- Psalms 88:16Your burning anger has swept over me. Your terrors have destroyed me.
- Joel 1:15This will be a terrible day! The day of the Lord is near, and it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
Commentaries on Job 23:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16For God maketh my heart soft - Prostrates my strength, deprives me of courage, so that I sink beneath my burden, and I am troubled at the thought of the Almighty, the self-sufficient and eternal Being.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16For God maketh my heart soft - That is, “faint.” He takes away my strength; compare the notes at Isaiah 7:4. This effect was produced on Job by the contemplation of the eternal plan and the power of God.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-17Verses 13-17 As Job does not once question but that his trials are from the hand of God, and that there is no such thing as chance, how does he account for them? The principle on which he views them is, that the hope and reward of the faithful servants of God are only laid up in another life; and he maintains that it is plain to all, that the wicked are not treated according to their deserts in this life, but often directly the reverse. But though the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15-17Terrified in His presence: See Psalms 77:3; 88:16; 119:120. Job had earlier complained about being in darkness (Job 19:8). Eliphaz and Bildad said this fate is for the evil person (15:22; 22:1; 18:6, 18).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. soft--faint; hath melted my courage. Here again Job's language is that of Jesus Christ (Psa 22:14).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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