New English Translation
Job 23:16
16Indeed, God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.
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
14For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans. 15That is why I am terrified in his presence; when I consider, I am afraid because of him. Indeed, God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me. 17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered 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 22:14My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.
- Isaiah 6:5I said, “Too bad for me! I am destroyed, for my lips are contaminated by sin, and I live among people whose lips are contaminated by sin. My eyes have seen the king, the Lord who commands armies.”
- Isaiah 57:16For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.
- Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter –
- Ruth 1:20But she replied to them, “Don’t call me ‘Naomi’! Call me ‘Mara’ because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly.
- Psalms 88:16Your anger overwhelms me; your terrors destroy me.
- Joel 1:15How awful that day will be! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.
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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