At least I can take comfort in this: Despite the pain, I have not denied 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.
- KJV 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.
- 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.
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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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Job 23:12I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
- Lev 19:2“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.
- Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Ps 71:17–18God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
- Ps 40:9–10I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
- Ps 119:13With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
- 1 Sam 2:2There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.
- Deut 29:20Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
- Acts 20:27for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
- Isa 30:11–12Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
- Job 21:33The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
- Acts 20:20how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
- Hab 1:12Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.
- Rev 3:7“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
- Hos 11:9I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One among you; and I will not come in wrath.
- 2 Pet 2:4–5For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
- Rev 4:8The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”
- Job 9:4God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
- Job 3:22who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
- Job 22:22Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
- Ps 37:30The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.
- Rom 8:32He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
- Hab 3:3God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
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