Job 23 cross-references
Job 23 has 17 verses, which point to 156 other passages and are cited by 171. Below is the King James text of each verse with its strongest cross-references, ranked by OpenBible.info reader votes.
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Then Job answered and said,
Job 23:2
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Points to (7)
- Job 10:1 — My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 4 votes
- Psalms 32:4 — For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. 3 votes
- Job 7:11 — Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the… 3 votes
- Lamentations 3:19–20 — Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 2 votes
- Psalms 77:2–9 — In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be… 2 votes
- Job 11:6 — And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that… 2 votes
Pointed to from (7)
- Psalms 6:6 — I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. 3 votes
- Jeremiah 45:3 — Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I… 2 votes
- Job 34:37 — For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God. 2 votes
- Job 6:3 — For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. 2 votes
Job 23:3
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!
Points to (9)
- Job 16:21 — O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour! 5 votes
- Hebrews 4:6 — Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered… 3 votes
- Jeremiah 14:7 — O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are… 3 votes
- Job 31:35–37 — Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary… 3 votes
- Job 13:3 — Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 3 votes
- 2 Corinthians 5:19–20 — To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them;… 2 votes
Pointed to from (23)
- Hebrews 7:25 — Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to… 10 votes
- Isaiah 41:21 — Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 7 votes
- Psalms 42:2 — My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? 7 votes
- Psalms 84:2 — My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the… 5 votes
Job 23:4
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Points to (11)
- Job 13:18 — Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. 5 votes
- Daniel 9:18–19 — O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is… 3 votes
- Isaiah 43:26 — Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified. 2 votes
- Psalms 43:1 — Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. 2 votes
- Job 37:19 — Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness. 2 votes
- Joshua 7:8–9 — O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! 2 votes
Pointed to from (7)
- Job 13:15 — Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. 12 votes
- Job 13:18 — Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. 5 votes
- Job 40:4 — Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. 3 votes
- Job 38:2 — Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? 2 votes
Job 23:5
I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
Points to (4)
- 1 Corinthians 4:3–4 — But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not… 3 votes
- Job 13:22–23 — Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. 3 votes
- Job 10:2 — I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. 3 votes
- Job 42:2–6 — I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. 2 votes
Pointed to from (1)
- Habakkuk 2:1 — I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and… 6 votes
Job 23:6
Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
Points to (10)
- 2 Corinthians 12:9–10 — And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most… 3 votes
- Job 13:21 — Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. 3 votes
- Job 9:33–34 — Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. 3 votes
- Ezekiel 20:35 — And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. 2 votes
- Ezekiel 20:33 — As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured… 2 votes
- Isaiah 27:8 — In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the… 2 votes
Pointed to from (6)
- Ephesians 3:16 — That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in… 6 votes
- Job 22:4 — Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment? 3 votes
- Daniel 10:18 — Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me, 2 votes
- Isaiah 27:8 — In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the… 2 votes
Job 23:7
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
Points to (8)
- Job 13:3 — Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 4 votes
- Romans 8:1 — There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but… 3 votes
- Isaiah 1:18 — Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white… 3 votes
- Romans 8:33–34 — Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 2 votes
- Romans 3:19–22 — Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth… 2 votes
- Jeremiah 12:1 — Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore… 2 votes
Pointed to from (7)
- Luke 12:58 — When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou… 3 votes
- Job 34:23 — For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God. 3 votes
- Job 31:28 — This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. 3 votes
- Job 32:1 — So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2 votes
Job 23:8
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Points to (6)
- Psalms 10:1 — Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? 7 votes
- Job 9:11 — Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. 7 votes
- 1 Timothy 6:16 — Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor… 5 votes
- Job 35:14 — Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him. 5 votes
- Isaiah 45:15 — Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. 3 votes
- Psalms 13:1–3 — [To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou… 3 votes
Pointed to from (9)
- Job 9:11 — Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. 11 votes
- Job 42:5 — I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. 6 votes
- Psalms 139:5 — Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 5 votes
- Isaiah 50:10 — Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and… 3 votes
Job 23:9
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:
Points to (2)
- Isaiah 8:17 — And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 4 votes
- Psalms 89:46 — How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? 4 votes
Pointed to from (3)
- Psalms 89:46 — How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? 2 votes
- Psalms 10:1 — Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? 2 votes
- Job 10:13 — And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee. 2 votes
Job 23:10
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Points to (19)
- James 1:12 — Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which… 45 votes
- 1 Peter 1:7 — That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with… 34 votes
- James 1:2–4 — My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 34 votes
- Psalms 139:1–3 — [To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.] O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. 26 votes
- Zechariah 13:9 — And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try… 22 votes
- Proverbs 17:3 — The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts. 22 votes
Pointed to from (26)
- 1 Peter 1:7 — That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with… 43 votes
- Job 13:15 — Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. 26 votes
- Zechariah 13:9 — And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try… 23 votes
- Isaiah 48:10 — Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 23 votes
Job 23:11
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
Points to (15)
- Psalms 44:18 — Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; 10 votes
- 2 Peter 2:20–22 — For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour… 6 votes
- Psalms 17:5 — Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. 6 votes
- Romans 2:7 — To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 5 votes
- Psalms 125:5 — As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of… 5 votes
- Job 17:9 — The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. 5 votes
Pointed to from (20)
- Psalms 37:23 — The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. 27 votes
- Job 1:1 — There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that… 16 votes
- Job 4:6 — Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? 11 votes
- Proverbs 4:5 — Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 8 votes
Job 23:12
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Points to (17)
- Jeremiah 15:16 — Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I… 26 votes
- Psalms 119:11 — Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. 22 votes
- Psalms 119:103 — How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 21 votes
- John 4:34 — Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. 19 votes
- Psalms 19:9–10 — The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 16 votes
- Job 22:22 — Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. 13 votes
Pointed to from (27)
- Jeremiah 15:16 — Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I… 264 votes
- Colossians 3:16 — Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and… 41 votes
- John 15:7 — If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 35 votes
- John 4:34 — Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. 30 votes
Job 23:13
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Points to (16)
- Psalms 115:3 — But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. 29 votes
- Proverbs 19:21 — There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand. 18 votes
- Daniel 4:35 — And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army… 15 votes
- Isaiah 46:10 — Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My… 15 votes
- Ecclesiastes 3:14 — I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from… 12 votes
- Job 12:14 — Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. 12 votes
Pointed to from (23)
- Jeremiah 29:11 — For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give… 479 votes
- Proverbs 19:21 — There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand. 46 votes
- Isaiah 14:27 — For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall… 28 votes
- Isaiah 14:24 — The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have… 24 votes
Job 23:14
For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
Points to (9)
- 1 Thessalonians 3:3 — That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. 11 votes
- 1 Thessalonians 5:9 — For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 votes
- Romans 11:33 — O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and… 7 votes
- Isaiah 40:27–28 — Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over… 7 votes
- Psalms 97:2 — Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne. 7 votes
- 1 Peter 2:8 — And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient:… 6 votes
Job 23:15
Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
Points to (6)
- Psalms 119:120 — My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments. 5 votes
- Psalms 77:3 — I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. 3 votes
- Job 31:23 — For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. 3 votes
- Habakkuk 3:16 — When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I… 2 votes
- Job 23:3 — Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! 2 votes
- Job 10:15 — If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion;… 2 votes
Pointed to from (9)
- John 14:1 — Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 9 votes
- Genesis 3:10 — And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. 6 votes
- Psalms 77:3 — I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. 4 votes
- Exodus 14:24 — And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the… 3 votes
Job 23:16
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:
Points to (9)
- Psalms 22:14 — I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the… 6 votes
- Job 27:2 — As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul; 5 votes
- Isaiah 6:5 — Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a… 3 votes
- Psalms 88:16 — Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. 3 votes
- Deuteronomy 20:3 — And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your… 3 votes
- Joel 1:15 — Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 2 votes
Pointed to from (2)
- Psalms 22:14 — I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the… 7 votes
- Job 34:36 — My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men. 2 votes
Job 23:17
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
Points to (8)
- Job 19:8 — He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. 5 votes
- Isaiah 57:1 — The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering… 4 votes
- 2 Kings 22:20 — Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace;… 3 votes
- Job 22:11 — Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee. 2 votes
- Job 18:18 — He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. 2 votes
- Job 18:6 — The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. 2 votes
Pointed to from (1)
- Job 30:26 — When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. 3 votes