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Job Chapter 23 verse 1 Holy Bible

ASV Job 23:1

Then Job answered and said,
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BBE Job 23:1

And Job made answer and said,
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DARBY Job 23:1

And Job answered and said,
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KJV Job 23:1

Then Job answered and said,
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WBT Job 23:1

Then Job answered and said,
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WEB Job 23:1

Then Job answered,
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YLT Job 23:1

And Job answereth and saith: --
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 1-24:25. - Job replies to Eliphaz in a speech of no great length, which, though it occupies two chapters, runs to only forty-two verses. He begins by justifying the vehemence of his complaints, first, on the ground of the severity of his sufferings (ver. 2), and secondly, on the ground of his conviction that, if God would bring him to an open trial before his tribunal, he would acquit him (vers. 3-12). By the way, he complains that God hides himself, and cannot be found (vers. 3, 8, 9). He then further complains that God is not to be bent from his purpose, which is set against Job (vers. 13-17). In ch. 24. he goes over ground already trodden, maintaining the general prosperity of the wicked, and their exemption from any special earthly punishment (vers. 2-24). He winds up, finally, with a challenge to his opponents to disprove the truth of what he has said (ver. 25). Verses 1, 2. - Then Job answered and said, Even to-day is my complaint bitter; i.e. even to-day, notwithstanding all that has been said by my opponents against my right to complain, I do complain, and as bitterly as ever. And I justify my complaint on the following ground - my stroke is heavier than my groaning. If I complain bitterly, I suffer even more bitterly (comp. Job 6:2).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersXXIII.(1) Then Job answered.--Job replies to the insinuations of Eliphaz with the earnest longing after God and the assertion of his own innocence; while in the twenty-fourth chapter he laments that his own case is but one of many, and that multitudes suffer from the oppression of man unavenged, as he suffers from the stroke of God.