Job 23:1

King James Version

Then Job answered and said,

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New Living Translation
Then Job spoke again:

English Revised Version
Then Job answered and said,

Update Bible Version
Then Job answered and said,

New Century Version
Then Job answered:

New English Translation
Then Job answered:

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Job answered and said,

World English Bible
Then Job answered,

Amplified Bible
Then Job answered and said,

English Standard Version
Then Job answered and said:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli Joob answeride, and seide,

Berean Standard Bible
Then Job answered:

Contemporary English Version
Job's Reply to Eliphaz Job said:

American Standard Version
Then Job answered and said,

Bible in Basic English
And Job made answer and said,

Complete Jewish Bible
Then Iyov answered:

Darby Translation
And Job answered and said,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Job answered:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Job answered and said:

King James Version (1611)
Then Iob answered, and said,

New Life Bible
Then Job answered,

New Revised Standard
Then Job answered:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Bvt Iob answered and sayd,

George Lamsa Translation
THEN Job answered and said,

Good News Translation
I still rebel and complain against God; I cannot keep from groaning. <

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then responded Job, and said: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Job answered, and said:

Revised Standard Version
Then Job answered:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iob aunswered, & said:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then Job answered and said,

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Job answered:

Hebrew Names Version
Then Iyov answered,

Lexham English Bible
Then Job answered and said,

Literal Translation
And Job answered and said:

Young's Literal Translation
And Job answereth and saith: --

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iob answered, and sayd:

New American Standard Bible
Then Job responded,

New King James Version
Then Job answered and said:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Job replied,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Job answered and said,

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Job answered and said, ² Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. ³ Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! ⁴ I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. ⁶ Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. ⁷ There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

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Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Job answered and said. In reply to Eliphaz; for though he does not direct his discourse to him, nor take any notice of his friends; yet, as a proof of his innocence, against his and their accusations and charges, he desires no other than to have his cause laid before God himself, by whom he had no doubt he should be acquitted; and, contrary to their notions, he shows in this chapter, that he, a righteous man, was afflicted by God, according to his unchangeable decrees; and, in the next, that wicked men greatly prosper; so that what he herein says may be considered as a sufficient answer to Eliphaz and his friends; and after which no more is said to him by them, excepting a few words dropped by Bildad.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXIII

Job answers; apologizes for his complaining; wishes to plead

his cause in the presence of his Maker, from whom he knows he

should receive justice; but regrets that he cannot find him,

1-9.

He, however, gives himself and his cause up to God, with the

conviction of his own innocence, and God's justice and

goodness, 10-14.

He is, nevertheless, afraid when he considers the majesty of

his Maker, 15-17.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXIII