Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
Parallel translations
- WEB Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
- BSB It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
- NKJV Then I would still have comfort; Though in anguish I would exult, He will not spare; For I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
- NASB “But it is still my comfort, And I rejoice in unsparing pain, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
- NLT At least I can take comfort in this: Despite the pain, I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
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Quick answer
Even so, Job finds consolation that he has not denied the words of the Holy One. Amid agony he clings to his integrity and faithfulness to God.
Overview
Remarkably, Job's comfort is that, despite craving death, he has not renounced God's words. His integrity remains intact even in extremity. This quiet faithfulness under crushing pain foreshadows the steadfastness of Christ, who held fast to the Father's will through his own anguish, and it encourages believers that fidelity, not the absence of suffering, is the true mark of grace.
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- Job 23:12Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
- Lev 19:2Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
- Isa 57:15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
- Ps 71:17–18O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
- Ps 40:9–10I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
- Ps 119:13With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
- 1 Sam 2:2There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
- Deut 29:20The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
- Acts 20:27For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
- Isa 30:11–12Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
- Job 21:33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
- Acts 20:20And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,
- Hab 1:12Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
- Rev 3:7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
- Hos 11:9I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
- 2 Pet 2:4–5For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
- Rev 4:8And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
- Job 9:4He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
- Job 3:22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
- Job 22:22Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
- Ps 37:30The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
- Rom 8:32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
- Hab 3:3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
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