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Job 23:16

Job 23:16 is verse 16 of Job chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

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King James Version

For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

World English Bible

For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

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Job 23:14–17 · Berean Standard Bible

14 For He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.

15 Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.

16 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.

Job 27:2

“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice— the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—

Ruth 1:20

“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.

Psalms 88:16

Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

Joel 1:15

Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

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