1. Job 23:8–9 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Commentary on Job 23:8–9 (Summary)

Job 23:8–9 (ESV)

8 “Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I do not perceive him;

When Job wants to lay his case before God, God is nowhere to be found. This is the source of Job’s deep anguish.

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