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Job 23:2

Job 23:2
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

O that I knew where I might find him,.... That is, God, who is understood, though not expressed, a relative without an antecedent, as in Psa 87:1; Jarchi supplies, and interprets it, "my Judge", from…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Even to-day - At the present time. I am not relieved. You afford me no consolation. All that you say only aggravates my woes. My complaint - See the notes at Job 21:3. Bitter - Sad, melancholy,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 23:1-7

Job is confident that he has wrong done him by his friends, and therefore, ill as he is, he will not give up the cause, nor let them have the last word. Here,

I. He justifies his own resentments of…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The A. V. is almost certainly wrong in its rendering of this verse, though a more satisfactory rendering is hard to give. The text is probably faulty. Literally tendered according to the usual meaning…

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