Job 23:8–9
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The Inaccessibility and Power of God
23:8“If I go to the east, he is not there,
and to the west, yet I do not perceive him.
23:9In the north14 when he is at work,15
I do not see him;16
when he turns17 to the south,
I see no trace of him.
Footnotes
- 14 The text has “the left hand,” the Semitic idiom for directions. One faces the rising sun, and so left is north, right is south.
- 15 The form בַּעֲשֹׂתוֹ (ba’asoto) would be the temporal clause using the infinitive construct with a pronoun (subject genitive). This would be “when he works.” Several follow the with “I seek him.” The has “[when] he turns.” R. Gordis (Job, 261) notes that there is no need to emend the text; he shows a link to the Arabic cognate ghasa, “to cover.” To him this is a perfect parallel to יַעְטֹף (ya’tof, “covers himself”).
- 16 The verb is the apocopated form of the imperfect. The object is supplied.
- 17 The has “he turns,” but the and have “I turn.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
“Behold, I go forward, but he is not there,
and backward, but I do not perceive him;
on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him;
he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
“But if I go to the east, he is not there;
if I go to the west, I do not find him.
When he is at work in the north, I do not see him;
when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
If I go east, he is not there,
and if I go west, I cannot perceive him.
When he is at work to the north, I cannot see him;
when he turns south, I cannot find him.
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NLTNew Living Translation
I go east, but he is not there.
I go west, but I cannot find him.
I do not see him in the north, for he is hidden.
I look to the south, but he is concealed.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
“When I go forward, he is not there,
or backward, I cannot see him.
When he works on the left, I cannot perceive him;
he turns to the right, but I cannot see him.
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KJV 1900King James Version
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there;
And backward, but I cannot perceive him:
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him:
He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
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