Job 23:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ “If I go forward, he is not there; or backward, I cannot perceive him;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Behold, I go forward [and to the east], but He is not there; I go backward [and to the west], but I cannot perceive Him;

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him;

Common English Bible

⁸ Look, I go east; he’s not there, west, and don’t discover him;

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ If I go to the east, he does not appear; if I go to the west, I will not understand him.

Job 23:8 Cross References

Job 9:11

Look, he passes by me, and I do not see him; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.

1 Timothy 6:16

It is he alone who has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see; to him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

Psalm 10:1

Why, O Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Job 35:14

How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!

Isaiah 45:15

Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

Job 23:9

on the left he hides, and I cannot behold him; I turn to the right, but I cannot see him.

Job 34:29

When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him? Whether nation or person, it is the same—

Psalm 139:5

You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.