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Biblia Karoli Gaspar
Jób 23:16
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
For God: Psalms 22:14, Isaiah 6:5, Isaiah 57:16
Almighty: Job 27:2, Ruth 1:20, Psalms 88:16, Joel 1:15
Reciprocal: Exodus 14:24 - and troubled Job 34:36 - My desire is that Job may be tried Psalms 55:5 - Fearfulness Psalms 77:3 - I remembered John 14:1 - not
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For God maketh my heart soft,.... Not tender as Josiah's was,
2 Kings 22:19, or as the heart of every penitent is, when God makes it humble and contrite by his spirit and grace, or takes away the stony heart, and gives an heart of flesh; though Job had such an heart, and God made it so; but he means a weak, feeble, fearful heart, pressed and broken with afflictions, that could not endure and bear up under the mighty hand of God; but became as water, and melted like wax in the midst of him, and was ready to faint, and sink, and die away:
and the Almighty troubleth me; by afflicting him; afflictions cause trouble, and these are of God; or he "astonishes" a, amazes me, throws me into the utmost consternation, the reason of which follows.
a הבהילני "me attonitum reddidit", Vatablus; "consternavit me", Drusius, Mercerus, Cocceius, Michaelis; "externavit me", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For God maketh my heart soft - That is, “faint.” He takes away my strength; compare the notes at Isaiah 7:4. This effect was produced on Job by the contemplation of the eternal plan and the power of God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 23:16. For God maketh my heart soft — Prostrates my strength, deprives me of courage, so that I sink beneath my burden, and I am troubled at the thought of the Almighty, the self-sufficient and eternal Being.