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Job 23:15 — King James Version← Study notes

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.


Job 23:15Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 23:157 words
HebrewMeaning
עַלʿal
there-pronH5921
according to · after · against · among ···
כֵּ֭ןkēn
-foreparticleH3651
after that (this · -wards) · as... as · asmuch as yet ···
מִ/פָּנָ֣י/וmipānāyw
of himpronH6440
accept · against · anger · as ···
אֶבָּהֵ֑לʾebāhēl
I am terrifiedverbH926
amazed · dismayed · rash) · (be ···
אֶ֝תְבּוֹנֵ֗ןʾetəbwōnēn
I considerverbH995
consider · be cunning · diligently · direct ···
וְ/אֶפְחַ֥דwəʾepəḥad
and I may be in dreadconjH6342
stand in awe · fear · make to shake
מִמֶּֽ/נּוּmimenw
from himpronH4480
after · among · at · because of ···
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 23:15

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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