Job 23:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ on the left he hides, and I cannot behold him; I turn to the right, but I cannot see him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ On the left hand [and to the north] where He works [I seek Him], but I cannot behold Him; He turns Himself to the right hand [and to the south], but I cannot see Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ On the left hand, when he doth work, but I cannot behold him; He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

Common English Bible

⁹ north in his activity, and I don’t grasp him; he turns south, and I don’t see.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ If I turn to the left, what can I do? I will not take hold of him. If I turn myself to the right, I will not see him.

Job 23:9 Cross References

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

Psalm 89:46

How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

Job 9:11

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

Job 23:8

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

Job 23:10

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come out like gold.

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!

Job 10:13

Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.

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—

Isaiah 45:15

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