Job 23:9

Bishops' Bible (1568)

If I go on the left side where he doth his worke, I can not attayne vnto him: Againe, if I go on the right side, he hydeth him selfe that I can not see hym.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 89:46 : 46 O God howe long wylt thou hyde thy selfe? for euer? shall thy wrath burne lyke fire?
  • Isa 8:17 : 17 And I wyll wayte vpon the Lorde that hideth his face from the house of Iacob, and I wyll loke for him.

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  • Job 23:7-8
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    7There the righteous might dispute with him, so shoulde I be deliuered for euer from my iudge.

    8Behold, though I go forwarde I find him not: If I go backwarde, I can get no knowledge of hym:

  • Job 9:10-12
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    10He doth great thinges & vnsearcheable, yea and wonders without number.

    11Lo, when he goeth by me, I shal not see hym, and when he passeth, I shall not perceaue hym.

    12If he be hastie to take away, who wil make him restore it? or who will say vnto hym, what doest thou?

  • Job 23:10-11
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    10But as for my way, he knoweth it, and tryeth me, that as the gold I may come foorth.

    11My foote doth kepe his path, his hie way haue I holden, and will not go out of it.

  • Job 19:7-8
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    7If I complaine of the violence that is done vnto me, I cannot be heard: and if I crye, there is no sentence geuen with me.

    8He hath hedged vp my way that I can not passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my pathes.

  • 17Because I am not cut of before the darkenesse, neither hath he couered the cloude fro my face.

  • 3O that I might know him, and finde him, and that I might come before his seate:

  • 23From whom their endes are hyd, and consealed by God?

  • 23And I wyll take away myne hande, and thou shalt see my backe partes: but my face shall not be seene.

  • 19Then shewe me the way where light dwelleth, & where is the place of darkenesse?

  • Job 23:13-15
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    13He is still at one poynt, and who can turne him? he doth as him listeth, and bringeth to passe what he will.

    14He perfourmeth the thing that is appoynted for me, and many such thinges doth he.

    15This is the cause that I shrinke at his presence, so that when I consider him, I am afrayde of hym.

  • 18If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee:

  • 27Whom I my selfe shall see, and myne eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my raines are consumed within me.

  • 23It is the almightie, we can not finde him out: he is excellent in power and iudgement, and aboundaunt in iustice: he afflicteth not.

  • 9He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked.

  • Job 9:2-3
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    2I knowe it is so of a trueth: For how may a man compared vnto God be iustified?

    3If he wil argue with hym, he can not aunswere hym one thing of a thousande.

  • 10Euen there also thy hande shall leade me: and thy right hande shall holde me.

  • 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thyne enemie?

  • 19If men will speake of strength, lo he is strong: if men will speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?

  • 13Is it not so that there is in me no helpe? & that my substaunce is taken from me?

  • Job 13:20-21
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    20Neuerthelesse, graunt me two thinges, and then wyll I not hide my selfe from thee:

    21Withdrawe thyne hande from me, and let not the fearefull dreade of thee make me afrayde.

  • 9So that the eye which sawe him before, shal haue no more sight of him, and his place shall know him no more.

  • 11I wil teache you in the name of God, and the thing of the almightie will I not kepe from you.

  • 4When I loked vpon my ryght hande and sawe rounde about me there was no man that woulde knowe me: I had no place to flee vnto, and no man cared for my soule.

  • 23Neuerthelesse I am alway with thee: for thou hast holden me by my ryght hande.

  • 8Yea and the eye that hath seene me, shal see me no more: for yer thou fasten thyne eye vpon me, I come to naught.

  • 14Although thou sayest to God thou wylt not regarde it: yet iudgement is before him, trust thou in him.

  • 3For who can keepe his owne counsaile so secrete but it shalbe knowen? Therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstoode not, euen the thinges that are to wonderfull for me, and passe myne vnderstanding.

  • 27Howe may then Iacob thinke, or may Israel say, My wayes are hid from the Lord, and my God knoweth not of my iudgementes?

  • Job 9:32-33
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    32For he that I must geue aunswere vnto, and with whom I go to the lawe, is not a man as I am:

    33Neither is there any dayesman to lay his hande betweene vs.

  • 21For his eyes loke vpon the wayes of man, and he seeth all his goinges.

  • 1Considering then that there is no time hyd from the almightie, how happeneth it that they which know him do not regarde his dayes?

  • Lam 3:2-3
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    2He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light.

    3Against me is he turned, he turneth his hande dayly against me.

  • 4Doth not he see my wayes, and tell all my goynges?

  • 23But God seeth her way, and knoweth her place.

  • 16He stoode thereon and I knewe not his face, an image there was before myne eyes, and in the stilnesse hearde I a voyce.

  • 3When his light shined vpon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, euen through the darknesse:

  • 5I woulde knowe what aunswere he woulde geue me, and vnderstande what he woulde say vnto me.

  • 23For I haue euer feared the vengeaunce and punishment of God, and knewe very well that I was not able to beare his burthen.

  • 15Lo, though he slay me, yet wyl I trust in him: but I wyll reproue myne owne wayes in his sight.