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Job 23:13

Job 23:13

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

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? Once more we hear the voice of complaint. The happier tone of thought which extends from to grows out of a sanguine hope on Job's part that God will bring him before his tribunal, and judge his cause according to righteousness.

Now he bethinks himself that hitherto God, notwithstanding his prayers, has refused to summon him to his judgment-seat, and begins to fear that there is no likelihood of his changing. "He is One," or "in one."

With him is "no variableness, neither shadow of turning" (). How is it likely that he will act in the future otherwise than he has acts! in the past? What his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

A somewhat harsh way of saying that God doeth that which seemeth him best—and which, therefore, is best. Job does not really suppose that God is actuated by caprice or favouritism.

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