Job 23:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

On the left hand where he works, but I cannot behold him; he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

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  • Ps 89:46 : 46 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Shall your wrath burn like fire?
  • Isa 8:17 : 17 And I will wait upon the LORD, who hides His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for Him.

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  • Job 23:7-8
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    7 There the righteous might dispute with him, so I would be delivered forever from my judge.

    8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive him.

  • Job 9:10-12
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    10 He does great things beyond finding out; yes, and wonders without number.

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    12 Behold, He takes away, who can hinder Him? Who will say to Him, What are you doing?

  • Job 23:10-11
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    10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

    11 My foot has held fast to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.

  • Job 19:7-8
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    7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

    8 He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

  • 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • 3 Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!

  • 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

  • 23 And I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

  • 19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 23:13-15
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    13 But he is of one mind, and who can change him? And whatever his soul desires, that he does.

    14 For he performs the thing that is appointed for me, and many such things are with him.

    15 Therefore I am troubled at his presence; when I consider, I am afraid of him.

  • 18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'

  • 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

  • 23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out; he is excellent in power, in judgment, and in abundant justice; he will not oppress.

  • 9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

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    2 I know this is true: but how can a man be righteous before God?

    3 If one wishes to contend with Him, he cannot answer Him one in a thousand.

  • 10 Even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me.

  • 24 Why do you hide your face, and hold me as your enemy?

  • 19 If I speak of strength, lo, He is mighty: and if of judgment, who shall set a time for me to plead?

  • 13 Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven quite from me?

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    20 Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from you.

    21 Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not your dread make me afraid.

  • 9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place behold him any longer.

  • 11 I will teach you by the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

  • 4 I looked on my right hand and beheld, but there was no one who would know me; refuge failed me; no one cared for my soul.

  • 23 Nevertheless I am continually with You; You hold me by my right hand.

  • 8 The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; your eyes are upon me, and I am not.

  • 14 Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust in him.

  • 3 Who is he who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

  • 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

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    32 For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, and we should come together in judgment.

    33 Nor is there any mediator between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

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    2 He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

    3 Surely against me He is turned; He turns His hand against me all day long.

  • 4 Does He not see my ways, and count all my steps?

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  • 16 It stood still, but I could not discern its form: an image was before my eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

  • 3 When His lamp shone upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;

  • 5 I would know the words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

  • 23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and because of His majesty I could not endure.

  • 15 Though he slays me, yet will I trust in him; but I will defend my own ways before him.