Job 23:13,Job 23:14

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 23:13

Job 23:13. He is of one mind The word mind is not in the Hebrew, which is only באהד , beehad, he is in one, namely, in one way, or purpose, or counsel. Notwithstanding all these evidences of my sincere piety, and all my prayers to him, he still continues in the same course of afflicting me. And who can turn him? No man can change his counsels or course of acting. He is most absolute and free, to do what he pleaseth, and he deals with me accordingly, and not by those milder methods... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 23:1-17

Job’s reply to Eliphaz (23:1-24:25)Again Job says that he is not rebelling against God or running away from him as his friends claim. On the contrary he wants to meet God, so that he can present his case to him and listen to God’s answer (23:1-5). He is confident that God will declare him innocent of the charges people have made against him (6-7).No matter where Job has searched for God, he has not found him. He cannot see God, but God can see him. God knows he is upright, and one day, when... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 23:13

His soul = Himself. Hebrew. nephesh . App-13 . Figure of speech Anthropopatheia . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 23:13

Job 23:13. But he is in one mind, and who can turn him?— For when he is in the way, who shall turn him? whatever he desireth, that he doth. Job had said, in the preceding verses, that he had observed the steps, and trodden in the way of God; and he now adds, when he is in the way, who shall turn him out? i.e. "Who shall compel God to forsake that way of ruling human affairs which he hath once purposed, and to follow another." Houb. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 23:13

13. in one mind—notwithstanding my innocence, He is unaltered in His purpose of proving me guilty (Job 9:12). soul—His will (Psalms 115:3). God's sovereignty. He has one great purpose; nothing is haphazard; everything has its proper place with a view to His purpose. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 23:1-25

2. Job’s third reply to Eliphaz chs. 23-24Job temporarily ignored Eliphaz’s groundless charges of sin and proceeded to reflect on the problem of God’s injustice."The first part of this speech is superb. The option placed before Job by Eliphaz has clarified his thinking. He has come to quite different conclusions, and he expresses them in a soliloquy, for he does not appear to be addressing either Eliphaz or God." [Note: Andersen, p. 207.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 23:13-17

Job’s frustration 23:13-24:17God’s irresistible power and inscrutable behavior made Job afraid (Job 23:13-17). Nevertheless he determined to confront God with His apparent injustice.Job could not understand why God did not always judge overt sin quickly (Job 24:1-12). Most people still have the same question. He mentioned three sins specifically: removing boundary landmarks and thereby appropriating someone else’s land, stealing flocks of sheep, and mistreating the weak. Job could not see why... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 23:1-17

Job’s Seventh Speech (Job 23, 24)Job makes but slight reference to the remarks of Eliphaz, but continues to brood over the mysteries of God’s dealings with himself (Job 23), and with mankind (Job 24). All seems to betoken a God that hideth Himself. Yet he is evidently calmer and more trustful in God’s justice than in earlier speeches.1-7. Job longs that he may find God and plead his cause before Him, confident that He wifl acquit him of guilt.2b. RM ’My hand is heavy upon my groaning,’ i.e. I... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 23:13

(13) He is one, or in one.—Job either declares His unique sovereignty or His unchangeable purpose. The context seems to support the latter, in which case the sense given by the Authorised Version is correct. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 23:1-17

Job 23:3 'I remember one day in the early springtide,' Tolstoy writes in his Confessions, 'I was listening to the sounds of a forest, and thinking only of one thing, a thing of which I had thought for two years on end I was again seeking for a God.... I remembered that I had lived only when I believed in a God. As it was before, so was it now; I had but to know God, in order to live; I had but to forget Him, to cease believing in Him, and I died. What was the meaning of this despair and... read more