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La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati
Giobbe 23:16
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- BakerParallel Translations
Dio fa venire meno il mio cuore, lOnnipotente mi spaventa.
Iddio m’ha tolto il coraggio, l’Onnipotente mi ha spaventato.
Bible Verse Review
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 ×××××× × "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, âfaint.â 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.