Job 23:1

Christian Standard Bible ®

Then Job answered:

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Hebrew Names Version
Then Iyov answered,

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Then Job answered and said,

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Then Job answered and said:

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Then Job answered:

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Then Job answered:

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Then Job answered and said,

New American Standard Bible
Then Job responded,

World English Bible
Then Job answered,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Bvt Iob answered and sayd,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Job answered and said,

Berean Standard Bible
Then Job answered:

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

Complete Jewish Bible
Then Iyov answered:

Darby Translation
And Job answered and said,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Job answered:

George Lamsa Translation
THEN Job answered and said,

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

Lexham English Bible
Then Job answered and said,

Literal Translation
And Job answered and said:

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

American Standard Version
Then Job answered and said,

Bible in Basic English
And Job made answer and said,

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

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

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

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

English Revised Version
Then Job answered and said,

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

Update Bible Version
Then Job answered and said,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Job answered and said,

New King James Version
Then Job answered and said:

New Living Translation
Then Job spoke again:

New Life Bible
Then Job answered,

New Revised Standard
Then Job answered:

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Job answered, and said:

Revised Standard Version
Then Job answered:

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Job replied,

Contextual Overview

¹Then Job answered:²Today also my complaint is bitter.His hand is heavy despite my groaning. ³If only I knew how to find him,so that I could go to his throne. ⁴I would plead my case before himand fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵I would learn how he would answer me;and understand what he would say to me. ⁶Would he prosecute me forcefully?No, he would certainly pay attention to me. ⁷Then an upright man could reason with him,and I would escape from my Judge forever.

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Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth?”

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