Job 10:13

Job 10:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
• New International Version (NIV)“But this is what you concealed in your heart, and I know that this was in your mind:
• English Standard Version (ESV)Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.
• New King James Version (NKJV)‘And these things You have hidden in Your heart; I know that this was with You:

Context of Job 10:13

11clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews? 12You gave me life and steadfast love, and Your care has preserved my spirit. “Yet these things You have hid in Your heart, for I know that this is with You. 14If I sinned, You would watch me, and not acquit me of my iniquity. 15If I am guilty, woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and conscious of my affliction.

Job 10:13 word by word

וְ֭אֵלֶּה צָפַ֣נְתָּ בִלְבָבֶ֑ךָ יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי כִּי־זֹ֥את עִמָּֽךְ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• hast thou hidצָפַןtsâphan · to treasureH6845
• in thine heartלֵבָבlêbâb · heartH3824
• I knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045

Cross-references for Job 10:13

• Job 23:9When He is in the north, I cannot perceive Him; When He turns south, I do not see Him.
• Ecclesiastes 8:6For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a person’s trouble is heavy upon him.
• Isaiah 45:15Truly You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, Savior!
• Romans 11:33O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how incomprehensible His ways!
• Job 23:13He is unchangeable, and who can change Him? Whatever His soul desires, He does.
• Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I, I am He! There are no other gods beside Me. I bring death and give life, I have wounded but I will heal, and none can rescue from My hand.’
• Isaiah 45:7I form light and create darkness. I make shalom and create calamity. I, Adonai, do all these things.
• Isaiah 46:9Remember the former things of old: For I am God—there is no other. I am God, and there is none like Me—
• Lamentations 3:37Who speaks and it comes to pass unless the Lord has decreed it?
• Ephesians 3:11which is in keeping with the eternal purpose that He carried out in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.

Commentaries on Job 10:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13And these things hast thou hid in thine heart - Thou hast had many gracious purposes concerning me which thou hast not made known; but thy visitations and mercy are sufficient proofs of kindness towards me; though for purposes unknown to me thou hast sorely afflicted me, and continuest to treat me as an enemy.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13And these things hast thou hid in thine heart - This may either refer to the arrangements by which God had made him, or to the calamities which he had brought upon him. Most expositors suppose that the latter is intended. Such is the opinion of Rosenmuller, Good, Noyes, and Scott. According to this the idea is, that God had purposed in his heart to bring these calamities upon him. They were a part of his counsel and design. To hide in the heart, or to lay…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-13Verses 8-13 Job seems to argue with God, as if he only formed and preserved him for misery. God made us, not we ourselves. How sad that those bodies should be instruments of unrighteousness, which are capable of being temples of the Holy Ghost! But the soul is the life, the soul is the man, and this is the gift of God. If we plead with ourselves as an inducement to duty, God made me and maintains me, we may plead as an argument for mercy, Thou hast made…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. is with thee--was Thy purpose. All God's dealings with Job in his creation, preservation, and present afflictions were part of His secret counsel (Psa 139:16; Ac 15:18; Ec 3:11).Read the comment

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Commentaries on Job 10

• 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
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings