Job 23:8
If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.
BSB
ASV
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him;
KJV
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
If I go to the East, He appeareth not; if I go to the West, I shall not understand Him; if I go to the left hand, what shall I do? I shall not comprehend Him; if I turn myself to the right hand I shall not see Him. For the Creator of all things is not in a part, inasmuch as He is every where. And then He is found the less, when He, That is whole every where, is sought in a part.
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there,.... Job here returns to what he had said before, Job 23:3; as Jarchi observes, where he expresses his earnest desire after God, that he might know where he was, and come up to his seat; here he relates the various ways he took to find him, and his fruitless search of him.
For "behold," &c. forward . . . backward--rather, "to the east--to the west." The Hebrew geographers faced the east, that is, sunrise: not the north, as we do. So "before" means east: "behind," west (so the Hindus).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
1 Timothy 6:16He alone is immortal and dwells in unapproachable light. No one has ever seen Him, nor can anyone see Him. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.
leads to
Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
Through
Psalms 10:1Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
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My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Through
Job 9:11Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; were He to move, I would not recognize Him.
leads to
If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.
