Job 23:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured his words in my bosom.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² I have not gone back from the commandment of His lips; I have esteemed and treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Common English Bible

¹² kept the commandments from his lips and not departed, valued the words from his mouth more than my food.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² I have not withdrawn from the commands of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hidden in my sinews.

Job 23:12 Cross References

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.

Psalm 119:11

I treasure your word in my heart, so that I may not sin against you.

Job 22:22

Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

John 8:31

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples,

John 4:32

But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

Psalm 119:127

Truly I love your commandments more than gold, more than fine gold.

Job 6:10

This would be my consolation; I would even exult in unrelenting pain, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Acts 14:22

There they strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”

1 Peter 2:2

Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation—

Luke 12:46

the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.

Luke 12:42

And the Lord said, “Who, then, is the faithful and prudent manager whom his master will put in charge of his slaves, to give them their allowance of food at the proper time?

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us, for if they had belonged to us they would have remained with us. But by going out they made it plain that none of them belongs to us.

Job 15:11

Are the consolations of God too small for you or the word that deals gently with you?

Job 23:13

But he stands alone, and who can dissuade him? What he desires, that he does.

Psalm 33:11

The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that I need,

Job 33:9

You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.