‘And these things You have hidden in Your heart; I know that this was with You:
Parallel translations
- WEB Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:
- KJV And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
- BSB Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
- NASB ‘Yet You have concealed these things in Your heart; I know that this is within You:
- NLT “‘Yet your real motive— your true intent—
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Quick answer
Job suspects God concealed a hidden purpose in His heart all along. He senses that God's secret intentions lie behind his suffering.
Overview
Job believes God hid certain designs within Himself, and he reads them darkly as plans to catch his sin. Ironically he is right that God has hidden purposes, though their true aim is good, not malice (Job 1-2; 42:5). This points to the truth that God's secret counsel, though often hidden, is always wise and trustworthy (Deuteronomy 29:29; Romans 8:28).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Job 23:13But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
- Deut 32:39“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
- Job 23:9He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.
- Rom 11:33Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
- Eccl 8:6–7For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
- Isa 46:9–11Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me.
- Isa 45:15Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’”
- Lam 3:37Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
- Isa 45:7I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
- Eph 3:11according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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