Job Chapter 9 verse 11 Holy Bible
Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: He passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
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See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.
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Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him] not; and he passeth along, and I perceive him not.
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Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
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Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
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Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.
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Lo, He goeth over by me, and I see not, And He passeth on, and I attend not to it.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not. Near as God is to us, close as he comes to us, we cannot directly see him, or feel him, or perceive his presence. We know it by faith, we may feel it in our inmost spirits; but there is no manifestation of it to our senses. A sharp line divides the visible and invisible worlds; and this line, if it is ever crossed, is very rarely crossed. Job possibly reflects upon the pretension of Eliphaz to have had a physical consciousness of the visitation of a spirit (Job 4:15, 16), and asserts, with a tinge of sarcasm, that it is otherwise with him - the spirit-worm passes him by, and he receives no light, no illumination, no miraculous direction from it. He passeth on also. The same verb is used by Eliphaz (Job 4:15) in speaking of his spiritual visitation. But I perceive him not. Eliphaz perceived the presence of the spirit (Job 4:15, 16) and heard its voice (Job 4:16-21). Job seems to mean that he is not so favoured.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) He passeth on also.--This, again, is an expression Eliphaz had used in Job 4:15. Here in words of great sublimity Job depicts the unapproachable majesty of God omnipotent, but invisible, and shows the utter hopelessness of entering into judgment with Him. Unfortunately, though this is a proposition to which all must assent, yet none is virtually so much repudiated or practically so often contravened. Men still cast about to justify themselves before God, and will do so till the end of time; but it is in teaching such as this that the Book of Job has laid the foundation of the Gospel by preparing for its acceptance by overthrowing man's natural and habitual standing-ground in himself.
