Job 23:16

16 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

Job 23:16 in Other Translations

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

16 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;

16 God has made me sick at heart; the Almighty has terrified me.

16 God makes my heart sink! God Almighty gives me the shudders!

16 For God hath made my heart faint, And the Almighty hath terrified me;

16 God has discouraged me. The Almighty has filled me with terror.

16 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

16 God has made my heart weak. The Mighty One has filled me with terror.

Job 23:16 Meaning and Commentary

Job 23:16

For God maketh my heart soft
Not tender as Josiah's was, ( 2 Kings 22:19 ) , or as the heart of every penitent is, when God makes it humble and contrite by his spirit and grace, or takes away the stony heart, and gives an heart of flesh; though Job had such an heart, and God made it so; but he means a weak, feeble, fearful heart, pressed and broken with afflictions, that could not endure and bear up under the mighty hand of God; but became as water, and melted like wax in the midst of him, and was ready to faint, and sink, and die away:

and the Almighty troubleth me;
by afflicting him; afflictions cause trouble, and these are of God; or he "astonishes" ^F1, amazes me, throws me into the utmost consternation, the reason of which follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (ynlyhbh) "me attonitum reddidit", Vatablus; "consternavit me", Drusius, Mercerus, Cocceius, Michaelis; "externavit me", Schultens.

Job 23:16 In-Context

14 He carries out his decree against me, and many such plans he still has in store.

15 That is why I am terrified before him; when I think of all this, I fear him.

16 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

Cross References

• 1. S Deuteronomy 20:3; Psalms 22:14; Jeremiah 51:46
• 2. Job 27:2
• 3. S Exodus 3:6; Revelation 6:16