Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 23:12

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 23:12 - 23:12

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 23:12 - 23:12

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esteemed - rather, “laid up,” namely, as a treasure found (Mat 13:44; Psa 119:11); alluding to the words of Eliphaz (Job 22:22). There was no need to tell me so; I have done so already (Jer 15:16).

necessary - “Appointed portion” (of food; as in Pro 30:8). Umbreit and Maurer translate, “More than my law,” my own will, in antithesis to “the words of His mouth” (Joh 6:38). Probably under the general term, “what is appointed to me” (the same Hebrew is in Job 23:14), all that ministers to the appetites of the body and carnal will is included.