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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 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 his trouble (Job 23:2): Even to day, I own, my complaint is bitter; for the affliction, the cause of the complaint, is so. There are wormwood and gall in the affliction and misery; my soul has them still in remembrance and is embittered by them, Lam. 3:19, 20. Even to day is my complaint counted... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 23:2

Even today is my complaint bitter ,.... Job's afflictions were continued on him long; he was made to possess months of vanity; and, as he had been complaining ever since they were upon him, he still continued to complain to that day, "even" after all the comforts his friends pretended to administer to him, as Jarchi observes: his complaints were concerning his afflictions, and his friends' ill usage of him under them; not of injustice in God in afflicting him, though he thought he dealt... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 23:2

Even to-day is my complaint bitter - Job goes on to maintain his own innocence, and shows that he has derived neither conviction nor consolation from the discourses of his friends. He grants that his complaint is bitter; but states that, loud as it may be, the affliction which he endures is heavier than his complaints are loud. Mr. Good translates: "And still is my complaint rebellion?" Do ye construe my lamentations over my unparalleled sufferings as rebellion against God? This, in fact,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:1-2

Then Job answered and said, Even to-day is my complaint bitter ; i.e. even to-day, notwithstanding all that has been said by my opponents against my right to complain, I do complain, and as bitterly as ever. And I justify my complaint on the following ground— my stroke is heavier than my groaning. If I complain bitterly, I suffer even more bitterly (comp. Job 6:2 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:1-7

Job to Eliphaz: 1. The experience of a seeker after God. I. GREAT SORROW . (Verse 2.) Two wonders. 1 . An afflicted man a seeker after God. Designed to recall men to God ( Job 36:8 , Job 36:9 ; Isaiah 19:22 ; Jeremiah 2:27 ; Hosea 5:15 ), temporal calamity is not always attended by so blessed a result. Unaccompanied by grace, it tends to harden rather than soften the human heart, to repel rather than attract the soul's confidence and love. Happily, however, in Job's case... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:1-17

Longing for the appearance of the delivering and justifying God. I. EXCLAMATION . ( Job 23:2-5 .) So bitter is his complaint, "his hand is heavy upon his groaning," i.e. he must force groan after groan out of himself. Oh that he knew where to find the judgment-seat of God, and that he might have the opportunity of pleading his cause! ( Job 23:3-5 ). He possesses still "faith and a good conscience," those best jewels of a Christian ( 1 Timothy 1:5 ), and can think of appearing... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:2

The bitter complaint. Job's comforters have failed. Their many words have not lightened his troubles. On the contrary, they have aggravated them. To external disaster has been added cruel misunderstanding and false accusation. Of all this Job naturally complains most bitterly. Many troubles are softened with time. It is not so with his. The same melancholy despondency, the same cry of agony, the same grievous complaining, are still with him. I. IT IS NATURAL TO GIVE EXPRESSION... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 23:2

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, distressing. The meaning is, not that he made bitter complaints in the sense which those words would naturally convey, or that he meant to find fault with God, but that his case was a hard one. His friends furnished him no relief, and he had in vain endeavored to bring his cause before God. This is now, as... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 23:2

Job 23:2. Even to-day is my complaint bitter Even at this time notwithstanding all your promises and pretended consolations. For your discourses give me neither relief nor satisfaction. Hence in this and the following chapter Job seldom applies his discourse to his friends, but either addresses his speech to God, or bewails his misery. My stroke is heavier than my groaning The hand or stroke of God upon me exceeds my complaints. 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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 23:1-7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 23:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 23:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:1-2

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:1-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 23:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 23:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 23:2

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 23:1-17

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