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Job 23:2 KJV

Job · chapter 23 · verse 2

Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.Job 23:2 · King James Version

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Job 23:2 in context

1Then Job answered and said,

2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

3Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

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Commentary

Job is confident that he has wrong done him by his friends, and therefore, ill as he is, he will not give up the cause, nor let them have the last word. Here, I. He justifies his own resentments of his trouble (Job 23:2): Even to day, I own, my complaint is bitter;

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7

Key words (Strong's)

complaintsîyacha contemplationH7879 →
heavierkâbadto be heavyH3513 →
bittermᵉrîybitternessH4805 →
strokeyâda handH3027 →
dayyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →

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Job 23:2 KJV

Job 23:2 in context

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