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Job 23:10

The Pulpit Commentary on Job 23:10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

But he knoweth the way that I take; or, the way that is with me. My inability to find God does not in any way interfere with his perfect knowledge of me. God knows both "the way of the righteous" () "and "the way of the wicked," which" he turns upside down "().

He is "about our path, and about our bed, and spieth out all our ways" (). When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold; i.e. as gold from the furnace, I shall come forth purified, when my trial is over (comp.

; ; , ; , etc.). Job seems at last to have woke up to the conception that there is a purifying power in affliction.

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