Job 23:10 - Exposition

But he knoweth the way that I take ; or, the way that is with me. My inability to find God does not in any way interfere with his perfect knowledge of me. God knows both "the way of the righteous" ( Psalms 1:6 ) "and "the way of the wicked," which" he turns upside down "( Psalms 146:9 ). He is "about our path, and about our bed, and spieth out all our ways" ( Psalms 139:2 ). When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold ; i.e. as gold from the furnace, I shall come forth purified, when my trial is over (comp. Psalms 12:6 ; Isaiah 1:25 ; Jeremiah 6:29 , Jeremiah 6:30 ; Jeremiah 9:7 , etc.). Job seems at last to have woke up to the conception that there is a purifying power in affliction.