Job 23:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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¹² I have not withdrawn from the commands of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hidden in my sinews.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² I have not departed from the commandments of his lips: and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

Job 23:12 Cross References

Job 15:11

Are the consolations of God too small for thee, And the word that dealeth gently with thee?

Job 22:22

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, And lay up his words in thine heart.

Job 23:13

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

Job 33:9

I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

Job 6:10

Then should I yet have comfort; Yea, I would exult in pain that spareth not: For I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Psalm 119:11

Thy word have I laid up in mine heart, That I might not sin against thee.

Psalm 119:127

Therefore I love thy commandments Above gold, yea, above fine gold.

Psalm 33:11

The counsel of the LORD standeth fast for ever, The thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Proverbs 30:8

Remove far from me vanity and lies: Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:

Jeremiah 15:16

Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

Luke 12:42

And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall set over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season?

Luke 12:46

the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the unfaithful.

John 4:32

But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not.

John 4:34

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.

John 8:31

Jesus therefore said to those Jews which had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples;

Acts 14:22

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

1 Peter 2:2

as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest how that they all are not of us.