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Job 23:17 — King James Version← Study notes

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.


Job 23:17Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 23:178 words
HebrewMeaning
כִּֽיkiy
forconjH3588
+ (forasmuch · inasmuch · where-) as · assured ···
לֹ֣אlōʾ
notparticleH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
נִ֭צְמַתִּיniṣəmatiy
I have been destroyedverbH6789
cut off · destroy · vanish
מִ/פְּנֵיmipənēy
from beforepronH6440
accept · against · anger · as ···
חֹ֑שֶׁךְḥōšekə
darknessnounH2822
night · obscurity
וּ֝/מִ/פָּנַ֗/יwmipānay
and from before meconjH6440
accept · against · anger · as ···
כִּסָּהkisāh
it coversverbH3680
close · clothe · conceal · cover ···
אֹֽפֶלʾōpel
gloomnounH652
obscurity · privily
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 23:17

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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