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Job 23:13 — King James Version← Study notes

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.


Job 23:13Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 23:137 words
HebrewMeaning
וְ/ה֣וּאwəhwʾ
and heconjH1931
as for her · him · it · the same ···
בְ֭/אֶחָדbəʾeḥād
is onepronH259
alike · alone · altogether · and ···
וּ/מִ֣יwmiy
and who?conjH4310
he · him · O that! what · which ···
יְשִׁיבֶ֑/נּוּyəšiybenw
will he turn back himverbH7725
build · circumcise · dig · do anything ···
וְ/נַפְשׁ֖/וֹwənapəšwō
and that which self hisconjH5315
appetite · beast · body · breath ···
אִוְּתָ֣הʾiwətāh
it has desiredverbH183
desire · be desirous · long · lust
וַ/יָּֽעַשׂwayāʿaś
and he has doneconjH6213
advance · appoint · apt · be at ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 23:13

O that one would grant me that I might know and find Him, that I might come even to His seat! An elect person if he did not know God, assuredly would not love Him. But it is one thing to ‘know’ by faith, and another to know by His own Form, one thing to find by trustfulness, another to find Him by contemplation. In consequence whereof it is brought to pass that Him Whom they know by faith, all of the Elect long to see by His own Form as well. With the love of Whom they burn…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 16 §32
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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