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Job 23:16 — King James Version← Study notes

For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:


Job 23:16Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 23:165 words
HebrewMeaning
וְ֭/אֵלwəʾēl
and GodconjH410
goodly · great · idol · might ···
הֵרַ֣ךְhērakə
he has made faintverbH7401
mollify · (be · make) soft · be tender
לִבִּ֑/יlibiy
heart mynounH3820
care for · consent · considered · courag ···
וְ֝/שַׁדַּ֗יwəšaday
and the AlmightyconjH7706
הִבְהִילָֽ/נִיhibəhiylāniy
he has terrified meverbH926
amazed · dismayed · rash) · (be ···
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 23:16

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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