Job 23:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
God hath softened my heart, and the Almighty hath troubled me.
וְ֭אֵל הֵרַ֣ךְ לִבִּ֑י וְ֝שַׁדַּ֗י הִבְהִילָֽנִי׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Job 27:2As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,
- Ps 22 (21):14
- Deut 20:3Hear, O Israel, you join battle this day against your enemies, let not your heart be dismayed, be not afraid, do not give back, fear ye them not:
- Isa 57:16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto the end: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, and breathings I will make.
- Joel 1:15Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty.
- Ps 88 (87):16
- Ruth 1:20But she said to them: Call me not Noemi (that is, beautiful,) but call me Mara (that is, bitter), for the Almighty hath quite filled me with bitterness.
- Isa 6:5And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.